Which course to take next?

Should I take Console Foundations before Ruby Foundations?

Yes

It might be valuable to follow along with the Become a Web Developer learning adventure.

I've been trying to follow the Become a Web Developer learning adventure, but I don't understand the structuring.

The first part of this learning adventure dives straight into Build a Simple Website, which requires knowledge of html and css. For someone who doesn't have either of these coding skills, it seems impractical to build a simple website without knowing the foundations. The foundations for html and css are listed after Build a Simple Website. The adventure also dives into Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application before listing the Ruby Foundations.

I like Treehouse, but the order in which courses should be taken is confusing to me. Thanks for your advice! I will be starting Console Foundations shortly!

I've been trying to follow the Become a Web Developer learning adventure, but I don't understand the structuring.

The first part of this learning adventure dives straight into Build a Simple Website, which requires knowledge of html and css. For someone who doesn't have either of these coding skills, it seems impractical to build a simple website without knowing the foundations. The foundations for html and css are listed after Build a Simple Website. The adventure also dives into Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application before listing the Ruby Foundations.

I like Treehouse, but the order in which courses should be taken is confusing to me. Thanks for your advice! I will be starting Console Foundations shortly!

Unfortunately, my reply is not useful to you but I share the exact same feeling and I posted about it a few minutes ago. Hopefully we can find some direction because the layout is confusing to me and it's not easy to pick what I need to learn by jumping around when I don't know what it is I need to learn. To me, it's like being handed an arithmetic book, an algebra book and a calculus book and being told "just jump right in and see what feels right!"

It's like being handed an arithmetic book, an algebra book and a calculus book and being told "just jump right in and see what feels right!"

That's quite accurate actually, Treehouse is less of a school and more of a library.

I would go into the building a basic website:

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/websites/build-a-simple-website

From there you can try some other things, deep dives into HTML, CSS, JS, Ruby, or PHP. If you try programming and decide you don't like that as much then go into some of the design deep dives and that is a good place to start as well.

But to answer your original question I would take console foundations before Ruby or RoR since both require some knowledge of using the console.

George Offley - Did you look at the badges that Jason Niebauer has before suggesting that?

The amount of points he has relative to your own should have probably tipped you off that he's not new to web design courses at Treehouse.

I did not, looks like I wasn't paying attention at the time. I'll have to remember that the next time I comment :)