Project Based learning or Generic based learning

Obviously each of us has a different way of learning. Some of the courses here offer us a different way to learn.

Take for example two of the most recent courses I've taken or am taking.

In one, "How to make a Wordpress plugin" there's a very specific user case to follow here. A course that intends to teach a specific goal and that's okay. For me what I've learned from it so far is the building blocks of starting a plugin project. But the specific programming tasks. I'm afraid these very easily pass me by. I don't underestimate though the value of listening to the teachers; thoughts as we do this code walkthrough, even if Wordpress and Treehouse has moved on a little bit since the video was recorded.

Then there's the new database courses. Admittedly, these at the moment are beginner level courses. But they follow no specific example. No specific user case but instead a number of examples that teach us the basics of using SQL. Some courses are like that. They hit the spot for me. They give me bitesize chunks of the concepts I need to know that I'm far more likely to take in.

I think that's the best way I learn. Not worrying about memorizing every last thing a teacher does and why but giving yourself a learning curve, a headstart into going to the right places get yourself in the right track so that maybe in the future, you can start making your own Wordpress plugins, or mySQL databases, or Android Apps or dynamic websites.

What do you think? How do you learn best? :)