Heres problem with treehouse, it tricks you into thinking your working hard when you might not be. Add "code projects"

Hey Ian,

I see where you're going with this suggestion, and I quite like it. I love being handed projects to work on so that I can now what I'm doing wrong and what I'm doing right. But the way Treehouse works is not like Code Academy. In Code Academy, the projects are done gradually through interactive pieces of code. In Treehouse, it is done through instructors and your own initiative. I have suggested to quite a few people to take both at the same time because you'll get the best of both worlds. And besides, you have to have initiative to make it any kind of business.

I agree with this too - I've thought on numerous occasions that it would be extremely helpful to have a sort of "workbook" on here with things to practice what you've learned. For example, it could have super buggy website examples that you need to fix, things to redesign, a mock-up client proposal ("Annie is a florist in North Carolina who needs a website. Here's a little bit about her business, beliefs, values, and ideas. Come up with this thing for her"), etc. Just a bunch of different exercises and projects of various difficulty or scope that you could work on to help practice and get a feel for doing things on your own (without totally being on your own.)

It's important to be creative and self-motivated enough to come up with your own project ideas to work on, and it will help you in the long run, but for those just starting out it can be super intimidating and slightly frustrating to try and figure out where and how to start on something, or even WHAT to start on.