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Python

Mohammed Jangda
Mohammed Jangda
1,701 Points

Confusing Questions

This is not a question, nor a complaint, just my feedback and I would love to see who else agrees! Please comment your feedback to this as well..... If I am gonna be honest most of the questions asked or challenge tasks are extremely confusing, the wording just mixes it all up and I can never truly understand what he is looking for. When i google the answers, that helps most because I can see what others did, but still can't see how or why they did it, so in a sense I will still be lost thinking how they came up with that when we weren't even taught it. Kenneth can be really fast even when I slow down the audio, he doesn't explain everything he does, he just assumes we will catch on to what he did. Craig on the other hand takes the slow beginner approach to everything and makes sure we understand every little aspect of his code thoroughly. As others who are just beginning like me would be confused too, The problems he wants us to solve are basically math equations in a sense, where we have 100's of different ways to answer it, and if you get an error it doesn't FULLY explain everything you did wrong, just the main aspect like "DUH". Thank God we have others going through this with us, and a powerful community willing to help, without them I would not have learned how to overcome each problem. Not complaining because treehouse has taught me ALOT! So far I am loving python and the powerful knowledge tools that treehouse provides, my feedback would be to explain the problems more thoroughly and do not have stuff in there that we barely know or have not learned yet, also teach the students on how to problem solve effectively, I often see others answering questions in ways I could not have thought of myself, such as shorter lines of code, or adding keywords to things that I did not know could be added to, even though we all learned the same stuff... again extremely confusing, but still love treehouse and will stay on my path to learn tons of languages! Wish me luck guys, Thanks!

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,644 Points

Interesting post! I think a lot of students can relate to your experiences.

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