OMG... why?

I'm a bit late to answer this, but seeing as how it was a month ago maybe you're still around or maybe it'll help someone else.

There's no rush. Start building things slow. Start off with a simple wireframe of a website, pen and paper will do. Look at other websites, it'll help you get ideas on what you might want to do.

I only started like a two weeks ago, I'm no pro, but what really helped me was trying my best to mimic or copy sites with my own code. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't but it was a learning process. I made my first site about a 12 days ago and it's simple(static with no JS, I had only taken HTML and CSS at that point), and that's okay. I'm making another now and it's way more complex. I'm just about done with it. Though I won't deploy it until I take some PHP courses to make my forms actually do something. Just keep building. Go fail, then try again until you can do it. The Treehouse courses give you invaluable info but if you don't use it then it's all for nothing.

Good luck.

You might want to check out www.freecodecamp.com. It is structured so you are building something, even simple things at first.

Ivan I feel your pain!! I have been hacking away on and off again for over a year (using Treehouse and other sources, and have gone on a few breaks because life happens...), I have a few websites under my belt that are responsive and look nice but have yet to break into coding with Javascript on my own. I can find Jquery plugins, possibly make a tweak here and there to suit my needs but it isn't easy!! I think you are asking the best question... WHY? Just stick with it, keep asking WHY and those incremental bits you pick up each day will make more and more sense. I have really found that writing things out helps make sense of things. Think of a game you like to play that involves dice. Write down the rules and steps of playing the game. Now examine each rule and think about the programming concepts that apply. Do you have to do one thing over and over again? Thats a Function! Do you have to roll certain amount of times? Thats a Loop! Does one thing happen if you roll a 1, and a different thing happens if you roll a 5? That's a conditional (If / Else) statement! Try some different resources too, I find that the same concepts presented in different ways can affect how you comprehend the topic. Best of luck and keep going! It will be worth it we can all do this together!

Really nice comments. I have been traying to learn to code since a year. I felt the same before, even now. The only thing I can say it's that the most important is to practice. Try to repeat every project and improve it as long as you learn new things. Never try to advance to new concepts if you have not really understood the previous steps. Sorry for my English, I'm from Colombia so this is not my native language.

Being honest about it I felt myself in relatively the same position. I had been driving myself crazy tripping over the way questions were phrased for quizzes. I was spending time trying to figure out what was meant by certain phrasing rather than truly testing if I understood a topic or concept. Like you, I felt that the questions, examples and challenges here just didn't seem to fit with the development environment I already know, where I wanted to be and how I wanted to present myself. Overall this type of frustration was impacting my ability to soak it in and put it to use which made me question the value.

I needed more to help me learn so I took a step to sign up for Microsoft's Visual Studio Dev Essentials program (free). As a part of that service you can obtain 3 months of free PluralSight training. I've found that using a mix of the two, was exactly what I needed to get me moving towards my goals and for my specific timeline.

Long story short, do what you need to do in order to learn. There are a bunch of programs out there, some free some not, that can help supplement your Treehouse learning.

Good luck to all!

Edit: Having said all of that, this comment is not related to the video its linked to in specific. I actually really like the way Andrew and Daves courses are presented.