How much should I be absorbing in the course?

This may have nothing to do with anyone, I just finally finished the odot after restarting it 3 times and i really need to upload cause I have a headache at the size of Borneo.

It does tricky and doesn't matter if you have finished tons of other course on treehouse. And it worse because the course is one year old so i think some things are not really relevant anymore or I don't know? Or maybe i am slow. of course i am slow thats why i'm following these videos in the first place.

But I think treehouse really need to re-look at teaching methods for ruby courses.

It's either I'm too slow or the video is too fast, and the way Jason keep switching screen is just driving me nuts. This odot was the most tiring 32 stages of course i've ever done on treehouse. I think he needs to consider that we are typing something that we're not familiar of as he speaks so needs to take time before suddenly "So let's go ahead and see this fails". On the last stages is worse as I think he sounds like start to lose patience lol

Just a tip though, I think the best is to start with ruby basics - the new course with the workspace is really good. Then continue with Hampton's Active Record course. Repeat that active record course until you really get it, then go with the other courses that actually creates something like creating simple rails app.

So repeat, repeat, repeat until it make sense. And google and forum.

And treehouse please re-consider the teaching methods for this. Probably it's even a good idea to just remove the very old courses on rails that is no longer up to date with the current versions because it could be really really really confusing and turn off for beginners.

Console foundations is a lot of content where you just have to get used to using it. I recommend practicing some of the concepts. I'm having the same trouble with some of the Rails stuff and I'm an experienced C/C++ developer. Practice and apply, that's the best way to learn .

Hi Tristan, Well not quite yet, but I am getting there. I understand the idea, but I keep having problems when try to re-create the same thing on my own machine by following the video.

I started with the 'Beginner Course - Creating Simple RoR App but keep getting stuck and started hating it. I keep having problems when following the video, mostly because of errors on my terminal. So I follow exactly what Jason did but getting totally different result. No failure on the video, I see him saying 'great, well done, let's commit this' - then smile, but what I got is all these failures that I don't even get what that means and then have to google to find the answers, mostly found on stack overflow and has nothing to do with the course itself. And there are a lot of deprecation warnings about this and that.

So somehow I'm pretty sure that it's the videos that need to be updated as well, apart from me keep on trying to make sense of it.

But really, i started to picking up after I follow Hampton Catlin's video on Active Record. It really started to make sense when I follow his 'Quick and Dirty Example' creating the hamblog.

How's your Google-Fu? I find that just about anything you need to do with a console you can find in less than a minute with a quick google. I think that the lessons are really more about exposure than anything else.

I think the course is mostly to get you familiar enough to go out on your own, like a head start: It shows you what's possible, gets you familiar enough with the concepts to start off with, and then it's up to you to use and further build those skills.