College and Treehouse

It depends on your course workload, difficulty of your major, and time management skills. I am currently in FIU right now getting my Bachelor's In Computer Science along with a Minor in Physics, during the day I go to classes, do my homework and occasionally log in once every couple of hours too moderate on the forums. During the night however, after I have finished homework, studying, socializing or working out. I am watch videos before bed.

Now I won't lie, it is sometimes difficult to manage things, and I have cancelled my account on more than one occasion (before I became a Mod) due to time management difficulties where I would essentially be spending $25 a month and login once every 5 weeks! However, I think that if you can just find the time to manage your school, social, and team treehouse watching sprees...you should be fine!

Thanks Dane , I was trying my best to keep up because doing treehouse for six months I finally finished full JavaScript and Php course . So now I want continuing update my skills on WordPress and drupal

I'm try do treehouse over weekends

Hey Martina,

As others have mentioned, time management is key! Also, OVERLOADING YOURSELF can be just as bad if not worse! I am in my 3rd year of community college at the moment with some previous semesters as full-time but mostly part-time while working 25+ hours a week as well as going to the gym 5-6 days a week. Personally, I feel as a Computer Science major it is best to not overload yourself with classes because the current courses you are taking (right now I am taking a Linux intro class as well as a Python class) can be confusing when studied together and you'll tend to focus on one more than the other or just become frustrated with both from misunderstanding concepts. Anyways, you could be great at managing your time but if you're overloading your brain with too many subjects and failing to understand concepts, it could lead to hopeless thoughts and you may choose to no longer pursue programming.

Just a year ago I finally decided Computer Science as my major and have been doing my best to keep myself motivated and inspired to become great. Unfortunately though, when I first took interest in CS and signed up for a Python class in college, I became somewhat "depressed" and no longer motivated to learn because my professor was a complete a**hole and literally went student-to-student asking them "what is your highest level of math you have passed?" - and if their math was lower than Calculus (mine being Algebra 2 at the time), he told the students to drop the course and not come back til his 'math standards to code' were met. Saying that to students on the first day of class was very demotivating / uninspiring and I ended up dropping the class with dreams crushed. A few months later I ended up doing research of what 'skills' were truly needed to code and I ended up finding posts, such as Riley Hilliard's, of success stories in programming who have similar skills as myself and ended up succeeding because of their efforts. Finding these resources lit a fire underneath me and I ended up switching colleges (that professor was the only Python / C++ instructor at that college) and have been pushing myself ever since.

Point is though, If you truly want to do something, you'll make the time to do it. Make the most out of what you're doing in your life, study hard, watch tv / play games less, and don't let anybody steer you off course! You can do it!

Dane Parchment,

I appreciate your response, thank you! Is there any way to add or follow you on this website so we can keep in touch? and Software Engineering sounds pretty interesting, what exactly is the difference of Engineering and Programming?

yes, that would be great! So far with Python I am extremely happy with the way Kenneth teaches the course and I am sure the other instructors for the other courses do just as well. If they taught Math that would be awesome!