Some encouragement to end the week

Hi all.

As it's the end of the working week, (Friday night in the land of England) I just wanted to offer you all a bit of encouragement and offer one main tip. Something I try to tell myself every day when I'm learning on Treehouse.

Treehouse is a lot of fun. I love how most if not all courses try to make learning what can be some quite demanding concepts, fun. The videos are informative and helpful and help you when you're quizzes and code challenges.

But sometimes what you're learning can be quite overwhelming and it can take me a little longer than the next student to process what I'm learning.

My focus at the moment is the "Build an Interactive Website" with England's very own Andrew Chalkley. :) It's a very enjoyable course and I'm loving seeing what can be done with jQuery and how it can e applied to a "real life" project.

Stage 3 was really hard work. I had to think really hard on the code challenges, look back on the videos from time to time and when I was really stuck, I'm afraid to say, had a cheeky look on Google for the answer.

I sometimes think to myself, how on earth am I going to remember all this later on? My brain can't take this in. I am after all a Dyslexic thinker.

But this is where the code challenges really work.

In contrast to stage 3, I was able to work out for myself the answer to another code challenge by just using the working memory I had and applying it bit by bit.

I put

var options = {navigationControl: false, animation: "slide"};

with no help or input and suddenly I felt like a coding ninja.

The thing I want to press home is this: Learning code doesn't happen overnight. But it won't happen either by getting worried about memorizing code snippets bit by bit because your brain very likely doesn't work that way.

What you need is just to continue practicing the concepts Treehouse teaches you so you can break down the tasks in your mind and work it out as you go.

Practice. Read code/plugin documentation, research what you need to go to go forward and above all, don't worry. If you practice and are dedicated, soon enough things will fall into place.