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Adrian Clark
18,889 PointsContinuing Exercises
Let me simply say that since joining Treehouse I've been able to grasp and appreciate what I'm trying to learn as least three times as better as before. The site as is, I think, is near perfect and I get excited for all updates.
I still think the site can be more useful though, and I would like to see the site implement stand-alone "refresher" code challenges. These challenges give the student some objective to reach (such as making a web page or creating a Ruby function) and instructs them in a similar way to how the code challenges work normally. The cool thing would be that these challenges can be accessed without having to go into your Deep Dive or Learning Adventure, and they would be longer because they would include more tasks.
It would be cool, and specifically on the iPad app, it would allow students to study and practice easily in areas where sound might not be an option, or if they only have a couple minutes. I know there are workshops available with a gold subscription, and maybe these features are a part of that already!
Just thought I'd share my brain for a second. Happy learning guys!
3 Answers
Gary Ford
14,475 PointsI agree with Adrian about offering challenges and projects that go beyond what's presented in the tracks. To make it more interactive, there could be an area of the site where students could post the finished projects and get constructive feedback from Treehouse instructors and other students. This would give all of us an opportunity to work on something that more emulates "real world" working conditions. Possibly these projects could be used for portfolio pieces as well.
James Barnett
39,199 PointsIf you are looking for projects to work on your skills I'd recommend doing the projects on pairuptocode.com using codepen.io
Gary Ford
14,475 PointsThanks James for the project sites suggestions. I will definitely check them out.
James Barnett
39,199 PointsJames Barnett
39,199 Points>To make it more interactive, there could be an area of the site where students could post the finished projects and get constructive feedback from Treehouse instructors and other students.Given the work load of individual critiques, that doesn't sound like something that would scale to the current ten of thousands of users given the current price point of Treehouse. There are companies that offer programs like their monthly subscription cost is roughly 10x that of Treehouse silver plan.
Those are just my thoughts on it though, I don't work for Treehouse.