Points!

Awesome! Great work! :)

Question: Is there a way to see what the Maximum amount of points for a given topic is? Or how is this indicated? :)

This is awesome!!

Awesome! I love this new system!

So excited for this to finally be here! And I love the mini profile - nice work, team!

This is awesome!

My my suckers (Staff), I have way more points than you. Step it up!!

What a great concept. Thanks Treehouse!

And what benefit gonna have this point feature? :D Some gifts! Stickers, T-Shirts, I luv treehouse <3

This is great! I feel so accomplished seeing that number... I've been busier than I thought!

Holy crap Sam. Way to go!!!!

This is cool :)

Should be fun to see how many points I can rack up.

Hooray!!

Love it!

Jaime: we have some stuff planned, but for now they're just a quantitative measure of how much you've learned at Treehouse :)

RAWK!

Cool! I was hoping Treehouse would implement a points system one day. Looking forward to seeing how the new points system works with earning the badges.

Very Cool

Tommy: This is exciting!!! Love me some treehouse :)

I love it! I need more points!

Am I really the person with the most points? Come on guys! Anyway, actually creating projects are more important than the points you've earned but this feature is really motivating I must say =)

I need more upvoting! Oops, secrets :)

This is soo cool : D love earning points

Great work, team!

And amazing work, everyone, on your points!

And so much more awesome coming. I blame the design team.

This is Awesome

Clearly what we need now is a top 10 list of points by user.

Fan-freaking-tastic! Something like this is just what I was looking for as another incentive to continue and push through the barriers. I am a working dad that doesn't have time nor money to return to college and Treehouse has renewed my sense of hope of learning new skills for the marketplace.

Cool! When can we see a top100 ?

So excited!!!

You rock, Treehouse! :)

Cheers guys, nice work!

Woot! Great job, team!

it's great to have a understanding of someones knowledge when converting information!

Awesome! I'm only posting to see my points before going to my profile page =).

Nice little add on for Treehouse! Keep it up guys!

@robert woody, that's awesome. Keep up the great work! We are all pulling for you!

Very cool!

This is really nicely implemented- it's wonderful that even the little things here are quality right out of the box.

Nice Idea!

Haha, that didn't take long!

So the points displayed on the site right now aren't totally correct - everybody's probably seeing a total that's about twice what it should be. Calculation error on our end that we just now caught - we'll be working to fix it in the next couple of days. Just don't be surprised when the numbers change.

I assume this is retroactive?

Awesome job getting this shipped! Time to go on a serious Badge-unlocking-insane-marathon!

Oh I'm so excited for this! This is totally rad. Straight up jazz if you ask me.

Jerome: as in, the points include work you'd done previously? Yes.

What ? Points are double, so soon I'm only half the man I used to be ?

BUMMER !!

Thanks Tommy! Cool Can't wait!

Yves: yeah, totally my bad :(

Loving the work.

Really like this new feature, good work :)

Now to rack up points to beat the staff!!

This is awesome

I'm commenting so i can see my points.

Pretty cool

And now the points being displayed are correct!

Way to drive sales, where's the league table!

sweeet

Great job! Now I know how far I have to go. :)

Very cool. Can I spend the points on anything? LIke a treehouse t-shirt or something? Branded eye-patch?

Yay!

Cool beans!

Nice!

Really like the mini-profiles. The points are just the cherry on top the badges and adventure video goodness.

Nice, our profiles look way better now. Really great design/implementation.

Ich mach !!!

Exciting feature, great job!

awesome!

awesome!

I think the point system and being able to look at a person miniprofile, and see what their strengths are is cool. It's like little infographics. One other thing I wanted to say, I truly appreciate treehouse working on my phone. The other sites In the online web education category leave a little bit to be desired in the responsive category. Now I'm going to see what my point total is. So nervous.

The point system is awesome!

This is great incentive! Time to start unlocking those Ruby, Android, and iOS badges.... I hate seeing 0 on my profile! Good job team.

Bam!

Forum point system? Plus points if someone marks you down as an answer?

Ernest: maybe... :)

@Ernest I don't want to see Treehouse turn into Hacker News. Stack Overflow has a good system. Something like karma points for actually helping people would be cool.

@Tommy haha

Great idea Treehouse team. Even better execution.

That's cool! I think this will definitely keep me in here more time :) On the other hand it would be nice if there's also a course on how to build a referral system or loyalty program in PHP

Had to login just to say awesome work guys! Can't wait for the ladder system

:)

neato!

Awesome! Thank you Treehouse!

Nice!

I've been wondering where those quiz points go. Coz I try to perfect every quiz (also iteration will make learning stick to my head) ^^

Cool guys cant wait to see mine so far!!

Epic!!!

Oh my... Always awesome ideas!

Woo! 4k club what upppp??

Awesome, can't wait to see what i earned so far.

Hi guys

is there a place in this site where learners show off their work?

I definitely to up my effort. It would be nice to have a list of highest gainers each week. That way I can evaluate my pace

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Awesome!

@Riley Awesome job on joining the 4K club. I'm jealous. I'll catch you soon though

Cool! I like this!

Who has the most points?

This is pretty cool!

This is mental! Whoever thought of this give them a Jaffa Cake!

If you do end up doing a Top 10 users (like a few have suggested) I would strongly recommend Top 10 this Week, Month etc to encourage new users to not get left out of the fun.

interesting

I imagine we're going to see this being incorporated into the forums as well? A-La Quora?

I'm just in love with this brand...

This is perfect! It is going to be so handy as a motivation tool to push me on to learn even more.

Another great feature. Keep up with the good work boys..=]

Another great feature. Keep up with the good work boys..=]

This is great!!

Awesome!

Wow big changes around here, very cool.

Thumb up! Keep it up

am just checking my points !

**** am still below 2k ! Points here i come!

Can we get a site wide leaderboard?

Very cool addition.

Puntos!!! @albertobustillos

Sounds awesome, another great feature!!

Pasan Premaratne I will catch up to you someday!

This is a great idea. I hadn't found time to do a single badge since the end of March, but seeing my points has motivated me to ramp it up again! I might even try out Ruby on Rails again...

I have no idea why this is so great... but, everyone seems to be happy... so, when in Rome... actually, I should say, when in the club!... cheers!

wait a second!... I just notice that I have 530+ "points"! how do I use them!!!

Great!

What are the points for?

Hey, Matthew Spiel what about the extra credit? Can I get point for turning that in too? Where do I turn it in :) Thanks, loving Team Tree House!

Best, Drew Butcher

love it! I want to make an additional suggestion, let me know where's the best place to submit : I want treehouse to have a feature that allows me to save and track which sub-curriculum that I want to take. LIke say, if I am interested in a CSS course, but right now I am doing a Ruby course, how do I track that?

Sorry Drew Butcher, no points for extra credit right now . But I'll give ya a high-five for it!

Drew Butcher: You can't get points for it right now, but Jeremy Jantz and I are working on some stuff that will tie this together in the next few months. Stay tuned!

Can we buy stuff with points? That would be cool. Kinda like a little game as you progress in your skills.

This is really awesome guys. Will there be a way to intergrate it into personal website?

Nice! And agree with Jack Sharpe - be great to show these point off to potential employers :)

I have written a simple json reader for displaying your badges on personal sites (based in PHP environment) I might set about making something simpler for people to use.

That is if people are interested?

Gareth Powell

@jack_sharpe tweet me if you want the php badge display now before i finish my site and release it.

Thanks Jack Sharpe.

That's very kind of you although would there be a cost?

Sorry to question but I'm currently a skint student! No probs if there is, I'll check back another time.

Gareth

Hit me up on Twitter jack_sharpe

Im not one to be demanding money for something people need.

Jack

Jack Sharpe & Gareth Powell, I just did a write up on how to make a treehouse badges widget yesterday actually! Right now there is no points data in the user JSON that treehouse provides, but I am hoping they add this soon.

Riley Hilliard my way is very similar to yours in the way you process it all. I like your styling and might pinch that idea >.<

I think the only difference I have is it is a PHP function that you just pass your username to.

I agree it would be nice for the json feed to give the point values within it and then use something like Easy Pie Chart to display them.

Woot!!! this looks awesome! Can't wait to rack up some points!

Yeah, I kinda posted also just to see my points XD

Riley Hilliard: ask and you shall receive... check the JSON data again.

Thanks Tommy Morgan.

Riley Hilliard I am going to add this into my php function. I gather you are going to adapt your code for it? may I ask that you will use to display the graph.

Jack

Tommy Morgan Niceeee! Going to get started with the new data today!

Jack Sharpe I am not entirely sure that I will use a graph yet. Always difficult to choose how to display data like this, but since the main person it will be intended for is a portfolio viewer, I may just try and keep it as concise as possible and not overload the widget with too much data and statistics. At this point I think I am going to start off with just displaying the points number alongside the badges count.

Thanks Riley Hilliard and Jack Sharpe .

I have bookmarked Riley's website and Jack; I will add you when I next get on Twitter.

Thanks guys for the help, advice and free stuff - very kind of you.

Gareth

Riley Hilliard Agreed it is nice to keep it simple and concise.

I will add you on Twitter would be nice to follow your development of this along side mine?

Gareth Powell Alway looking for ways to help out fellow lovers of the web.

Nice to see how this is all coming together.

This is a pretty sweet new feature. :)

How bout If I just finished my projects and Deep Dives?

Mohamad Nur Amin Shahril all points were rewarded retroactively, so it doesn't matter if you finished your projects and deep dives a year ago or if you're just getting them done today, you still get the points :)

Finally, yeah! I'm glad to hear that Tommy Morgan . ;)

Awesome !!! Treehouse Truly Is Awesome and Thanks Nick Pettit for all the Lessons and also Pasan u guys Rock !!!!

Thanks Treehouse I have finished the badge display (style from Riley Hilliard ) and a basic chart showing progress using the points.

www.jackrsharpe.com

Jack Sharpe that is freaking awesome! Well done :) Love the Points integration.

I will write my first blog on my new site about how to implement it on you own sites and supply a download to the way I am doing it in PHP.

Jack Sharpe - www.jackrsharpe.com

Jack Sharpe That's awesome! Looking forward to the post. PHP is high up on my list of 'things to learn' I backtracked your code and made a code pen of it, but i'll let you finish your blog post and share that with everyone. Neat stuff!

Awesome, Thanks !!!

Thanks Riley Hilliard. should not take too long to get my blog sorted out soon and post it on here and twitter.

Thanks guys.

@jack s

Jack Sharpe ios shows as iso on your website! Great work though!

Ernest Grzybowski Thanks I have amend this now.

Right guys here you are a simple version that you can use edit and add to you own sites:

Treehouse Badges - link

Treehouse Chart - link

Like I have done on www.jackrsharpe.com

Hope you guys like follow on twitter and check out site for updates.

Nice features!

Sweet, Nice feature. Thanks!

Matthew Spiel et al -

In case anyone's missed it Lee Hobbs has some feedback on the points feature in this thread.

FYI.

Wooo! Just made it to the 5k Club! :D

Congrats, Riley Hilliard!

We have an update. www.jackrsharpe.com/blog/ the badge #widget is complete for version 1.0 you can download a ready to go php based version of the widget on my site or the jquery one from codepen

Thanks follow on twitter for updates @jack_sharpe

Awesome. Agreeing with all ^ above.

Any chance points/badges will be available for Bonus Series content in the future? I know it shows up in our activity feed, but would be a great motivator for more in depth sections. Thanks!

Well done Jack Sharpe.

I also agree with Liz Kain in that it would be great to fully understand this via a Bonus Series or even a short course? I'm pretty un-technical in comparison to you guys :)

Great work - keep it up!

Gareth Powell Are you wanting a course on how I implemented the badges on a site.

Hi Jack Sharpe .

Yes, I think a course from Treehouse on how to do what you did will really help me, unless there is one on here already? To be honest, I haven't fully looked.

What language(s) did you use to implement the badges to your site?

Thanks, Gareth

Gareth Powell, There are 2 versions PHP on my site and Javascript on my codepen

codepen

My Site

Ah, I see it now - thanks Jack Sharpe .

I will follow those instructions on your 'My Site' when I do it - thanks!

Do I have points

Seriously, this is a fantastic way to note progress. Chipping away really adds up. Thanks team!

← New guy. Felt like I had a lot of points, until I seen the rest of yours. I have some work to do, better get to it ;-D

Great!

Posting to see my score on a comment :D (5 months later...)

...feel like I've got a lot of work to do seeing all the points here!

Awesome!

Is there a way to display all these points on a website? Like, say I wanted to show off my new skills via points and charts?

Louie Camacho I made an open source project to do just that. A little in the middle of building version 2 (and havnt had much time to work on it lately). Check it out.

So, I was wondering, TeamTreehouse is aware of the bug that if a user changes their Treehouse Profile Name, the link to their profile and the mini-profile/point display next to their name is no longer rendered, right?

Examples, me and jacksharpe...

Hi Mikhail Bukhonko, thanks for pointing out the bug! I've logged it, so it should be fixed soon!

Edit: you should also have also received a small token of thanks in the form of the 'Exterminator' badge!

Tommy Morgan & Matthew Spiel -

I noticed that points are now broken out achievement points and forum points.

Would it be possible to have that added to the JSON, so a widget could be made of Treehouse forum activity?

Please.

It'd be cool if we could have a custom avatar, and be able to spend points on upgrading our little avatar. Then it gives points more meaning.

Under Learn -> Completed... the screen that shows your completed courses. Is there a way to view the hours completed? I like the point system but knowing the hours completed makes it easier for explain to someone how much time it takes to complete these courses.

One of my favorite things :)