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General Discussion

PDF Notes

Treehouse should consider releasing pdf notes explaining the different things and code written in each video.

I seem to have gotten half way through the ruby on rails module & seem to have forgotten a lot of the earlier stuff. A pdf file to refer to would be very helpful.

I am thinking of doing the entire course again and take notes this time.

Let me know if people are interested in sharing notes/thoughts.

5 Answers

Andrew Martin
Andrew Martin
17,513 Points

This is something I've been meaning to bring up as well. I think that due to the Treebook project in general being just so big that a lot of concepts and important points get glossed over, not out of poor teaching but out of time constraints.

If the projects came with some extra teaching notes that not only remind the viewer on what some older concepts mean and do but also some extra information on the current topic, it would be a lot easier to go through. I for one feel I have to go through some videos time and time over because its just not 'going in'.

For example in the Advanced Social Features project (so, Part 3 in other words), "accepted_nested_attributes_for" gets about thirty seconds air-time, and its like 'huh?' and a couple more examples which I won't get into... I get that if everything was explained fully it would make the course a hundred times longer, but, I feel the balance is wrong in its current format.

Notes are different for everyone. You should take your own notes. I do this.

There's no way you can study anything with any depth if you don't do note taking.

Andrew Martin
Andrew Martin
17,513 Points

I think we're talking about two different kinds of notes, whilst yes I agree we need to sometimes write down stuff ourselves that we think we might forget etc etc, there is also times in the videos were things get no air time at all, and its very hard to take notes on that.

Yes, I was referring to some kind of documentation that can compliment the videos.

Andrew Martin, Yves Soete, Ishan Jetley - We're contemplating a 'Documentation' type feature, but haven't decided 100% on how that might be executed. Thanks for the feedback though - very helpful.