How do I create a facebook like app

What do you want from your learning? Are you looking for a career and a future in web design & development or are you solely interested in building a social network?

If it is the latter, then it's going to be difficult and you'd probably be best paying someone to do it. i only say this because building anything draws on a lot of areas of expertise and requires hundreds of man hours of work and years of experience to perfect.

If it is a career you're after, then start with HTML and work towards Ruby on Rails. You'll learn the principles of everything you'll need and then it's just a case of gaining experience.

Thanks for the reply Matthew. I am looking to do both. I was just wondering how advance the program gets and if it can teach me those things or the basics of how to get there and build an app for any website I create when the time comes and also the skills to obtain a career. Any thoughts?

The Ruby on Rails course teaches you one of the web's most popular frameworks while building a social network - I'd try that out.

Like I would say that this is a very big step into programming. You have to first of understand the concept of programming. You wanted to build a social network, I would recommended starting with really simple html and css to understand the concept of building a website. Then after that start with the ruby programming language and then go to the RoR course as Carl recommended to do. If you consider doing an app out of this, you have to the Android or IOS courses and after those I think you have to do even more courses outside Treehouse to figure out the concept out of it.

Matthew's answer is pretty much a summary of what you're looking for. I just wanted to share my opinion! :)

Take it easy, try working you're way up slowly! Happy coding