Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

General Discussion

Mark Shiel
Mark Shiel
12,225 Points

How does Treehouse calculate my next steps? What is the best way to calculate / setup a learning plan?

I notice when I login to the site (and also by email) I am getting some next steps for the day... how does treehouse calculate this? The recommended steps are a lot smaller and would lead to a much slower rate of course completion than I want to go.

I just signed up to treehouse on Saturday, my plan is to complete the web design, front end development, rails development, PHP development, starting a business, wordpress, wordpress development, learn ruby and full stack javascript tracks. I am planning on being pretty aggressive with my learning and then likely I will take some classes with code school and then do a nano degree with Udacity.

I am trying to set goals, timeframes etc for this, like a normal class schedule, I currently work 32 hours a week, so I am planning to do 3-4 hours each evening and on my two days off to do 8+ hours.

Is there any way to calculate the time to complete all these tracks, measure progress for my custom learning plan, estimate completion dates or seeing what I have to do to complete by a certain date?

If not it would certainly be awesome if Treehouse had this feature! Anyone attempted/attempting anything similar, use any other tools to track=monitor progress?

Namaste!

1 Answer

Travis Avey
Travis Avey
18,876 Points

The "Next Steps" are just the next video/quiz/code challenge that are the next steps in your current track or course you are on -- if that makes sense.

I don't think there is a way to calculate the time to complete 'X' track, because many people learn at different speeds. Maybe an average could be calculated: Length of videos + average time for quiz or code challenge.

Looks like you got a lot to do! Just start plugging away!