Where do I start, and what's the difference between programs?

@Jeff - The whole the purpose of a Learning Adventure is to provide a roadmap for the order in which the courses were designed to be taken in.

Hey gang! Great feedback :D I hope I don't, and apologize if I do, reiterate a lot of information already covered in this discussion. I thought I'd share with you this blurb about our content that I'll share with new members who are just diving into the Treehouse curriculum:

• Projects focus on a finished product, like a website or a mobile app, teaching you only the essential skills you'd need to get something basic up and running fast! Projects advance with more challenging content, developing more and more advanced products.

• Deep Dives focus on one topic and explore it in depth that way you can do more with the languages you want to learn.

• Learning Adventures are guided curriculums designed to help our members learn a new skill or train them for a specific role. You can think of them like playlists created from our Projects and Deep Dives.

Hope this helps! :D

Don't hesitate to email me if you have any questions or need help! help@teamtreehouse.com

It's all really about how you learn, is what I've found. Some people react better to being thrown into the deep end and some learn much slower at a different rate.

My opinion would be not to ask, and do what YOU feel you should be doing. :)

Hi i also use Treehouse and Codeacademy. IMO the content on Treehouse is much more in depth and and taught to a higher level. I actually learn via Treehouse and use Codeacademy for their abundance of practical exercises (something i think Treehouse is lacking in).

Regarding deep dives vs projects. I'd highly recommend you do the HTML & CSS deep dives then move onto the project. The project doesn't contain anywhere near as much information as the deep dives.

Thanks for the help! I think I am going to do the deep dives first.

Ok cool. That's what I thought, there just seemed to be a lot of review in the DD's of things that were already in the Projects. I'm sure this is just so they can be used independently of each other.

I'll finish up the Simple Web Site project since I'm already halfway through it and just stay on the Learning Adventure track I was on before.

Thanks!

I think what this shows is that the whole course / learning adventure / project / deep dive situation and terminology is confusing. I've been a Treehouse member from the start before content was labelled and sorted as such and i get confused. On further look i actually agree with James statement that that is the way the course is now designed to be taken in.

However since i did the deep dives way back when, before this learning adventure stuff and i completed the "build a simple website project" last week. My own personal view is doing the deep dives first is a better route. I see the project similarly to how i see Codeacademy content; a quick overview that's full of holes.

Since you switched to Treehouse for its more in depth information, i think the deep dive will be more beneficial. Then when you come to do the project you wont just be following along you will understand why you're doing something and exactly how it works.

In the end look at both routes and attack it in whichever way feels best to you. It seems your first advice from Vaughan was your best advice. Have fun