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Anthony Harrison
1,064 PointsBest way to utilise Treehouse?
Just a quick question to ask how you go about following along with treehouse courses and tracks?
Do you simply watch the videos and work your way through the quiz and code challenges without following along or do you follow along whilst watching the videos?
If so, what do you use, Codepen links found on the side of the video in the browser, do you open up and use workspaces or do you use external text editing software such as Sublime text etc.
3 Answers
Michalis Efstathiou
11,180 Pointsusually for courses that are simple to understand I just watch the videos and do the challenges
but when I was doing some more complex stuff, like the javascript to-do list, I watched the videos, and when I was done I opened my text editor and tried to do it from scratch myself, in order to better understand how to create programs in javascript
obviously every now and then I needed to take a look at the code to see how andrew did it or to compare code but i mostly did it myself and it helped me actually understand what was going on
Aurelian Spodarec
7,369 PointsHi!
There are manyyy ways!
What i can suggest , that works lets say for 99% , but it takes longer but its for sure you will learn it is to watch the video . And then re-watch it x2 speed , and code with him, to slow down to code with him. Then what you learned, make straight away a side project, your own and just apply it there. Comment it and everything. Make it a big information for your self. Then after a week, make another side project and do the same thing , just code it looking as some code . With time, you will be abet to get it in a night or week . But first you need to spend cople of weeks to know how stuff works.
Hope this helps.
Danial Goodwin
13,247 PointsCurrently, I'm going through the Android track. The process I like is following along with my own code during the videos. Then, for the quizzes I still type everything out even though they are similar. It's good typing practice, muscle memory training, and helps ingrain the materials into my brain.
Just doing that above will get you by at the minimal level. But, in any class/course you take (not just Treehouse), there is always much more that you can learn outside. So, I read related materials and randomly experiment with new things. And, I create a "cheat sheet" that I can always refer back to, which may be quicker than going through all the videos or code.
Anyways, regardless of what I said above, your goal should be learning new things. And, different people learn different ways. So, one of the best things you can do is experiment with all the different learning styles until you find one (or a few) that you like. In the many resources that I have tried, I really like the high quality of the Treehouse videos and the bite-sized information.