WHERE ARE THE PROJECTS TO BUILD?

Have you tried the Ruby on Rails track? The end courses are very long, but involve creating a To-Do Web App, developing the client (front end) and server (back end) side of the project. You may want to develop an understanding for loops, arrays, blocks, etc. before diving into the later parts of the track.

Thanks for the the reply, but have to work through the Front End Dev. , Web Design and Learn Ruby tracks before I start Rails. So a good couple of months yet. But worried like some that without project to practice and build my current skills on, the basic concepts may just not stick, and end up forgotten.

I like treehouse, but there is a serious lack of intergrated projects which upon to build and develop your skills and a job ready portfolio. I guess that's why people pay thousands of dollars for courses on Bloc, Career Foundry and Thinkful. But if ultimately I need to go and spend thousands of dollars on another site, why am I paying Treehouse?

one thing I wish I could go back on, was thinking that I must keep a perticular order of advancement. I held off on javascript and programming for a long time because I didn't have my html and css down. Because I waited to touch programming, I didn't know that its as understandable or even more than CSS. I also think that if you have multiple goals or interests, theres nothing wrong with learning how to make an iOS app before or while you're learn html and css. for me, it was more important to stay interested and engaged in this site by bouncing between programming and coding, than to stay stuck in css world for months and lose interest.

my best friends in doing projects outside of treehouse challenges is 1) finding PSD's of websites and trying to translate a psd into a website by my own coding. there are many websites with free psd mockups of basic landing page websites. Cause I use Creative Cloud programs, I can extract easily css values from the psd like the fonts and text sizes etc. whipping up code from a psd is common in a professional workflow.

2) I read through the code of htmlUP sites. just download, open with a text editor and flat out read through their code. I've already learned so much by actually reading through clean code and I can feel it re-wireing my brain. my only set back is that they also use jquary sass less and all these extra frameworks that I haven't got to yet. But reading through their code has help me a lot.