New to Treehouse; nervous about learning pace

im learning like you but with more time on my hands and i often feel like you and what i have been told is try to play with what you learned before moving into a new language, don't worry about knowing all the tags values etc on top of your head, i been following this guy on youtube (google employee) and him and lots of other people that live from this and are good at it don't know all the tags values etc they do remember more than you or me but that comes with practice, so in my opinion don't go flying over the courses, try to learn the fundamentals because everything is build on top of them, again i'm learning like you and i don't have much experience like lots of fellow users here, learning is different for everyone just feel comfortable and keep practicing, incorporate new things with past things that you learned, contact me if you like i would love to try and help with html things it will be like practicing too! hope this helps!

Eli,

You are unlikely to memorize everything. There is nothing wrong with rewatching a video as needed. However, you should not let that stop you from progressing. Pay close attention to when the instructor show documentation for various tags and properties. My favorite currently is the Mozilla Developer Network, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/ Very easy to understand documentation.

When you get stuck, look it up. That is what Google is for...

Jeff

Thanks for the reply and great advice. I think I will slow it down and work with what I've learned. I would love to collaborate on a project with anyone interested; it would be great practice!

Thanks Jeff, I will definitely do that!

Eli Simmons, most of the time we are on the road and we have time on the road, there are great apps that you can use as references to read

Hey Eli,

Remember, there is no rush to complete courses/tracks. One of the mistakes I made early on was to try to get an achievement a day (so the little badge would appear on my profile). At first it was simple but as time went on it got more harder and the amount of free time I had to learn greatly reduced. Yet I still tried to get an achievement a day even if I didnt understand things completely. In the end, I had to go back and re watch a lot of the videos and progress was even slower than if i just took my time, hacking away a video or two a day but making sure I understand what's going on.

When progress is slow or when i dont have alot of time, what I like to tell my myself is that I know more than i knew yesterday. And that makes me feel a bit better at the very least. The learning pace may be extremely slow, but in the end of the day, you are still making progress and it is better than nothing. Even if I just get exposed to just a single new word, its one more than i previously knew. Patience and persistence is more important than any sort of learning pace.

Good luck!!

Hi there,

It is okay, some courses are designed to be just a brief overview of some topics (like in the first HTML course). After a while you will just automatically remember it. What important is to understand the core concept of each lesson, because:

a. in engineering related disciplines, the most important thing is the core concept, not the memorization.

b. we can always look at the documentation for the syntaxes and structures.

So, you will be okay. :D Just make sure to saved the project files for later references. :D Ah, another suggestion is to finish all of the related courses, and move on to the other course (do it in order of the difficulty). For example, finish all HTML courses, then CSS, SASS, and go to JavaScript. This way, you will have your courses internalized before you move to more advanced topics.

The other last suggestion is to play the video in faster speed (I usually do it at 2x or 1.75x speed). It will be scary at first, but you will condition your brain to sprint (hence keep away the boredom), and you will be able to accomplished more videos in a given time. Don't worry, I am not a genius, and moreover, our brain is better than we can imagine.

Good luck. :D

Great suggestions thank you!

I use Evernote to take notes on the videos I watch. It can actually slow the process down, but I found that even if you don't review the notes, the physical act of typing the notes and rereading them in the moment to make sure they're accurate really helps retention. I hope this helps!

I actually just started doing that! Thanks for the advice :)