No answers to questions?

Hey Alex!

I think it boils down to the Treehouse team's pedagogical approach. Rather than giving you the correct answer outright, they've built a community (via this forum) for you to ask questions pertaining to the subject matter that you're stuck on. This approach tends to foster more discussion, which further solidifies topical retention. Simply giving you the answer would disincentivize engaging with your peers in the forum. Also, keep in mind that in programming, there are often multiple approaches to the same solution, so giving you just one "right" answer might limit your inclination to explore these different routes.

While often times there will be 'hints' as to where you went wrong on a particular question, the best approach if you're really stuck is to post your code here on the forum (using the Markdown Cheatsheet as a reference). The community here at Treehouse is awesome and jumps at chances to help their fellow programmers solve problems.

Hope this helps a bit!

Chris

You have posted that your frustrated twice and you have not showed your code. How are we suppose to help you? I asked you to show your code to help and you did not in the last post. The community can help you but you need to help yourself. Your frustrated and want an explanation. You can get an explanation by posting your code so people can see what you are doing or by watching the content again.

I can understand your frustration with this. It would be a lot easier and quicker if they could just show the correct answer. However, I think maybe it's a learning style thing. For a lot of people, if you have to search for an answer, you are more likely to retain the information than if the answer is just handed out.

Emma and Chris, thanks for the notes. I totally get where you're coming from. However, since I primarily work on Treehouse from my iPad, getting from a question to the forum and/or transferring the information from a question to the forum isn't very seamless. Information is lost, you lose your place in a test, etc. Additionally, if you simply post the question in a forum and wait for an answer from someone, how is that different than Treehouse providing the answer inside the quiz? I'd even be happy with hints as to what I did wrong vs. giving me the answer outright—I agree that simply providing the answer doesn't do much to help you learn and retain.

Alex,

I can't speak to working almost exclusively on an iPad, but I could imagine that doing so poses a unique set of challenges.

You may already be familiar with them, but I've included two great resources below for programming questions:

• Stack Overflow
• Mozilla Developer Network

I'm sorry you're running into such frustration, but definitely do your best to persevere through the challenges. Also, while Treehouse does offer a great iOS experience for iPad, do your best to jump on a non-mobile operating system whenever possible - nothing can compare to programming directly on a computer.

Best of luck!

Chris