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Posted by Ryan Harder
Ryan Harder
1,384 Points

Lost progress?

I previously completed the building a webpage stage (the Smells Like Bakin' one), then went on to HTML and am now on CSS. However since the tracks were rearranged it looks like I no longer have credit for the first stage of front-end web development about making a website. Are these new lessons? I don't want to waste any time going over basic html stuff, but I am a little OCD and I hate having that uncompleted stage at the top of my track.

2 Answers

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points
Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

This change probably has something to do with it. Looks like that course was retired and replaced with the new Build A Simple Website project

Ryan Harder
Ryan Harder
1,384 Points
Ryan Harder
Ryan Harder
1,384 Points

Oh I see. I thought it was due to the changes in the tracks, didn't realize that Smells Like Bakin' had been removed.

So obviously there's going to be some overlap seeing as I've already done the build a simple website part, but not the responsive website part. I'm assuming there will be some similarities.

Also are you able to tell me why the building the website part comes before the html, css, and javascript portions? Intuitively I'd want to learn the skills before I tried to apply them to a website.

Stone Preston
Stone Preston
42,016 Points

that first project is extremely simple, and just gives you a taste of front end development. Its also kind of nice to jump into actually making something first instead of doing hours and hours of deep dives before ever making anything.

Ryan Harder
Ryan Harder
1,384 Points

Ok thanks very much for clearing that up.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

> Intuitively I'd want to learn the skills before I tried to apply them to a website.

People who make "how to code" tutorials seem to fall into 2 camps.

  • Project first
  • Fundamentals first

Treehouse favors the project first approach with the idea being to get you hooked by "making something" early on.