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Posted by Fung How Lim
Fung How Lim
2,402 Points

Can i seek your advice on my learning method?

Hi there,

This is Steve. I have been on Team Treehouse for the last several months. So far, i have accumulated a total of 2k+ points, finishing a few chapters in javascript.

I'm feeling a little lost on my progress. While i have been learning and listening to the videos, and also working on the codes and assignments, i feel that i haven't done much.

After learning for several months, i am still incapable of coding an entire website by myself. I realized my problem is my inability to connect each and every lesson together.

Could you share some of your learning methods? Could you shed some light on your learning progress when you started out? What do you do specifically? I have a feeling that i am doing this wrongly. Really looking forward to your advice.

Thanks.

Best, S.

2 Answers

soo ao long tian
soo ao long tian
1,111 Points
soo ao long tian
soo ao long tian
1,111 Points

it is not easy, people spend years to master those skill, nobody will make it in few month, need a lot of practice, and learn from multiple resource, for example myself, i learn from youtube, treehouse, and online book, for example, if i don't understand what treehouse try to teach me, i will switch to google keep sourcing for tutorial until i understand it. i spend like 4hour - 6 hour a day, and it took me almost 2 years to be good at programming language.

rakan omar
rakan omar
15,066 Points
rakan omar
rakan omar
15,066 Points

You're learning how to program, watching videos and doing small challenges of just the part you learned will never get you anywhere. you have to actually put what you learn into use by building small projects, this website can help you there:

https://www.freecodecamp.com

Everything on it is free. anyway, free code camp will provide you with small projects to build and you have to do it from scratch (note: it actually has both lessons and projects, but skip their lessons, anything you can learn there you can learn on treehouse and its teaching is much better), it has front end (html, css and javascript) projects starting from really basic ones to quite advanced ones. So anyway, to really make what you learn stick, and to really comprehend it, you have to build things.

Also, if there is ever any lesson that you don't completely and absolutely understand,do NOT just skip over it thinking that you'll catch it later, you have to rewatch the video, if you still don't get it, go read about the topic in the documentary, if you still don't understand it, go find other tutorials about it, once you do understand it, use the console to play around with it and manipulate it until you completely understand the specific lesson or topic.

soo ao long tian
soo ao long tian
1,111 Points

hi, rakan omar, do u know any similar website like --> https://www.freecodecamp.com but for java programming language?