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Jon Harris
1,926 PointsGeneral Suggestion for Team Treehouse - More Practice Work
Hi there Team Treehouse,
I don't have any specific problems beyond the video's stutter on my phone for the first 20 seconds or so of every video but more of a suggestion. I'm about to finish my two week trial and in that time I have finished my "How to Make a Website" and "CSS Basics" courses in the front end web developer track.
I feel that I've learned a lot, however, because each of the code challenges immediately builds off of the video before and clear and concise instructions are given I'm hardly ever wrong. I'd have love to have seen three-five optional complete exercises at the end of each course that took all of the knowledge I've gained in that specific course (no more, no less) that allowed me to practice without as much hand holding. I'd love to build a website (or whatever course I'm working on) from start to finish from these exercises to allow myself to grow.
Now don't get me wrong I plan on building my own sites but while in my infancy stages I find myself going to other websites that I frequent and trying to build the site without looking at the code and copying the layout. My problem with that is often more than not with just the two courses I've taken the average website out there is far more advanced that what I'm able to do so that's why I ask you all to tailor a few website examples that I can build with only the knowledge I've gained from these courses at the time I've finished it.
Sorry for the long ramble but I feel like it would help my growth and others if they took the time to work the examples given.
1 Answer
geoffrey
28,736 PointsThat's not a bad idea, I've been learning for quite some time now. And treehouse 's taught me many things. However, you are right, they maybe could give us more practical work to apply what we learn but as you stated, that's as well something we can do on our own... I guess that planning courses and registering them is really time consuming, maybe that if they start to create more practical exercises for each course, this will result in less courses available at the end.
Nevertheless, It's obvious that watching videos and answering quizzes won't make you a coder... What you do is so a good way to learn. Basically, I do the same as you do, I use all the things learnt here on my own project. That's the best to do.