1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,744 [MUSIC] 2 00:00:04,744 --> 00:00:08,610 In this episode we'll be talking about the top five emails art teachers receive from 3 00:00:08,610 --> 00:00:09,541 students like you. 4 00:00:09,541 --> 00:00:13,219 [MUSIC] 5 00:00:13,219 --> 00:00:15,335 When you complete the course here, most of the time, 6 00:00:15,335 --> 00:00:18,110 you'll get an email directly from your teacher. 7 00:00:18,110 --> 00:00:19,630 I remember before I worked here. 8 00:00:19,630 --> 00:00:22,340 The very first time I got in email from Ben Jack. 9 00:00:22,340 --> 00:00:24,630 I immediately after I finish one of his android code. 10 00:00:24,630 --> 00:00:27,690 Now I was like, Ben's emailing me. 11 00:00:27,690 --> 00:00:30,650 And then, pretty clicky I was like wait a second, 12 00:00:30,650 --> 00:00:33,330 you just showed me how to make dynamic text. 13 00:00:33,330 --> 00:00:34,230 I know your tricks. 14 00:00:34,230 --> 00:00:37,200 You just wrote some code to send me a form letter. 15 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:39,520 So, I waited until I completed the next stage and 16 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:42,010 sure enough, there was another email from Ben. 17 00:00:42,010 --> 00:00:43,900 It was actually a pretty great email. 18 00:00:43,900 --> 00:00:46,220 It made me feel pretty proud of that I'd accomplished, but 19 00:00:46,220 --> 00:00:49,030 at the same time, I was onto the trick. 20 00:00:49,030 --> 00:00:52,460 So, being the smart alack that I am, I replied to the email with a snarky, 21 00:00:52,460 --> 00:00:53,770 thanks a lot, robot. 22 00:00:53,770 --> 00:00:54,820 And Ben replied. 23 00:00:54,820 --> 00:00:56,380 It blew my mind. 24 00:00:56,380 --> 00:01:00,100 And that was when I fully realized how amazing treehouse actually is. 25 00:01:00,100 --> 00:01:02,910 I was like I can talk to the teacher. 26 00:01:02,910 --> 00:01:04,050 This is incredible. 27 00:01:04,050 --> 00:01:06,890 Even when I think about it now, it really is. 28 00:01:06,890 --> 00:01:11,100 What an amazing perk of being a treehouse student, direct access to your teachers. 29 00:01:12,660 --> 00:01:14,930 I'm a teacher here so I get to write those congratulations, 30 00:01:14,930 --> 00:01:16,870 you did it, stage completion emails. 31 00:01:16,870 --> 00:01:20,150 We teachers put a lot of effort into them and we mean it. 32 00:01:20,150 --> 00:01:22,840 I love hearing directly from students. 33 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:25,530 Look, online education is a bit weird, right? 34 00:01:25,530 --> 00:01:26,890 It can feel a bit disconnected. 35 00:01:26,890 --> 00:01:30,660 You're at home, we're here in the studio somewhere and we present our teachings. 36 00:01:30,660 --> 00:01:33,900 But, we don't really get to feel how you are feeling like in that moment. 37 00:01:33,900 --> 00:01:37,200 Now, this completion emails are a great way to keep us connected. 38 00:01:37,200 --> 00:01:39,100 And you totally deserved those compliments. 39 00:01:39,100 --> 00:01:41,460 You're doing great work and you should be patted on the back or 40 00:01:41,460 --> 00:01:44,050 given a high five on your progress, just digitally. 41 00:01:45,420 --> 00:01:48,524 And on other side of things, we, teachers, should know how it's going so 42 00:01:48,524 --> 00:01:50,319 that we can improve things when we need to. 43 00:01:50,319 --> 00:01:53,700 I think, too often, students assume the robot theory, just like I did. 44 00:01:53,700 --> 00:01:56,680 And they think that we won't read their e-mails or won't reply. 45 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:59,600 But in reality, as teachers, being able to interact with you all is 46 00:01:59,600 --> 00:02:01,850 one of our favorite parts of the work that we do. 47 00:02:01,850 --> 00:02:03,710 We care about you. 48 00:02:03,710 --> 00:02:06,860 Don't forget, you're literally why we do what we do. 49 00:02:08,010 --> 00:02:11,460 I send a post out to our treehouse teacher saying, I was going to talk on this show 50 00:02:11,460 --> 00:02:15,110 about emails and ask what their experience was with receiving emails. 51 00:02:15,110 --> 00:02:17,520 It turns out we had some overlap in the questions. 52 00:02:17,520 --> 00:02:20,060 So, I figured I'd do a little top five round up. 53 00:02:20,060 --> 00:02:21,300 So here they are. 54 00:02:21,300 --> 00:02:22,810 Number 5, what should I learn next? 55 00:02:22,810 --> 00:02:24,980 Now, the answer to this question is going to vary. 56 00:02:24,980 --> 00:02:28,020 But to me, this question leans to the fact that maybe the student who wrote 57 00:02:28,020 --> 00:02:30,770 the email, or maybe you, too don't realise we 58 00:02:30,770 --> 00:02:35,030 offer a playlist of sort of workshop and courses, we call them tracks. 59 00:02:35,030 --> 00:02:37,900 We spend a lot of time thinking about what you should learn next and 60 00:02:37,900 --> 00:02:40,060 place them in order into tracks. 61 00:02:40,060 --> 00:02:40,690 You should check them out. 62 00:02:40,690 --> 00:02:43,290 I have put a link in teachers note of this video. 63 00:02:43,290 --> 00:02:46,610 Number 4, I'm currently learning X, should I also learn Y too? 64 00:02:46,610 --> 00:02:50,460 Now most of the time, if you're asking this question it's great news. 65 00:02:50,460 --> 00:02:54,540 Something has peaked your interest, maybe you're saying technology requirements and 66 00:02:54,540 --> 00:02:57,410 job post things or maybe you heard about from fellow developers. 67 00:02:57,410 --> 00:02:58,300 However it happened, 68 00:02:58,300 --> 00:03:02,370 it means you're looking to learn more if we're all about learning here. 69 00:03:02,370 --> 00:03:06,300 So, when you will the time is right, the question is, how do you know when? 70 00:03:06,300 --> 00:03:07,760 Now, if you stick with this field, 71 00:03:07,760 --> 00:03:10,740 you're going to end up programming in lots of languages. 72 00:03:10,740 --> 00:03:13,460 Now the good news is, a lot of concepts transfer. 73 00:03:13,460 --> 00:03:16,110 Most of the time, learning a language actually helps 74 00:03:16,110 --> 00:03:19,540 firm up your understanding of your original programming language. 75 00:03:19,540 --> 00:03:23,140 This specific question gets asked enough that we actually turned it into a couple 76 00:03:23,140 --> 00:03:24,930 of blog post in our blog. 77 00:03:24,930 --> 00:03:26,540 I dropped links of them in the teacher's notes. 78 00:03:26,540 --> 00:03:28,790 Make sure to give them a read if you're wondering the same thing. 79 00:03:28,790 --> 00:03:31,460 Number three, what is the right way to what's the content? 80 00:03:31,460 --> 00:03:32,355 Should I follow along? 81 00:03:32,355 --> 00:03:35,320 Now, this is kind of a personal question. 82 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:37,630 It's like how should eat the spaghetti? 83 00:03:37,630 --> 00:03:41,670 Some people put on the spoon they do this elegant twisty thing another just kind of 84 00:03:41,670 --> 00:03:42,420 slurp it down. 85 00:03:42,420 --> 00:03:45,379 Both styles get you finished it's just a matter of how you want to consume it. 86 00:03:46,450 --> 00:03:49,090 I know, that some people like to watch the whole course one through and 87 00:03:49,090 --> 00:03:51,390 then swing back of all along in a work space. 88 00:03:51,390 --> 00:03:52,890 Our online code editor. 89 00:03:52,890 --> 00:03:55,290 I know folks who pause the video and experiment. 90 00:03:55,290 --> 00:03:57,730 I've seen people take meticulous notes in their code. 91 00:03:57,730 --> 00:03:59,645 I guess the advice here is that. 92 00:03:59,645 --> 00:04:01,545 Experiment with what works for you. 93 00:04:01,545 --> 00:04:04,575 I think this is a great question to propose in the community forum. 94 00:04:04,575 --> 00:04:05,685 You'll get tons of insights and 95 00:04:05,685 --> 00:04:08,665 answers from your fellow Do what feels right for you. 96 00:04:08,665 --> 00:04:11,405 Just remember to tuck that napkin in if you do that slurping option. 97 00:04:11,405 --> 00:04:13,065 You don't want to ruin your shirt. 98 00:04:13,065 --> 00:04:14,595 Number two, what's up with your beard? 99 00:04:15,670 --> 00:04:17,470 There are a lot of beards that grace this set. 100 00:04:17,470 --> 00:04:20,490 And they seem to be the source of infinite wonder. 101 00:04:20,490 --> 00:04:23,580 You'd be surprised how many people ask about them. 102 00:04:23,580 --> 00:04:26,530 Mainly, the beardliest of them all, gets this like once a week. 103 00:04:26,530 --> 00:04:29,080 Throwing the average number of questions way off. 104 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:32,010 If you haven't guessed by now, this is about our Python teacher, Kenneth Love. 105 00:04:32,010 --> 00:04:32,658 Here, check this out. 106 00:04:32,658 --> 00:04:43,206 [MUSIC] 107 00:04:43,206 --> 00:04:45,850 [SOUND] >> And number 1. 108 00:04:45,850 --> 00:04:47,800 I'm making a ton of errors. 109 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:49,730 Am I not cut out for coding? 110 00:04:49,730 --> 00:04:53,550 This such a horrible feeling, and it happens to just about 111 00:04:53,550 --> 00:04:56,390 everyone I can think of as they're picking up a new technology. 112 00:04:56,390 --> 00:04:59,990 I mean, this is so common it even has a syndrome named after it. 113 00:04:59,990 --> 00:05:03,720 It's called Imposter Syndrome, and it's the overwhelming feeling that 114 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:06,230 everyone else can do something that you can't. 115 00:05:06,230 --> 00:05:09,140 Now, the secret to dealing with this is pretty straightforward and 116 00:05:09,140 --> 00:05:10,300 I know you can do this. 117 00:05:10,300 --> 00:05:13,660 When you feel it and I'm pretty sure you're going to sometime in your career, 118 00:05:13,660 --> 00:05:18,300 I want you to stop and think to yourself, everyone has been here. 119 00:05:18,300 --> 00:05:21,600 Think about it, we all start somewhere, don't forget that. 120 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:23,500 You are not alone in your struggle. 121 00:05:23,500 --> 00:05:26,610 Those who appear to know it all and are not making mistakes, 122 00:05:26,610 --> 00:05:30,040 have in reality just made a ton of mistakes that they don't anymore. 123 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,440 Because of the experience of making those mistakes. 124 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:35,140 I've link a several blog post and 125 00:05:35,140 --> 00:05:38,640 as a special little bonus gift, we even created a little imposter syndrome 126 00:05:38,640 --> 00:05:41,460 reenactment to help you deal with this, should it come up. 127 00:05:41,460 --> 00:05:43,590 Check the teachers note, it's pretty fun. 128 00:05:43,590 --> 00:05:44,910 And there you have it. 129 00:05:44,910 --> 00:05:49,110 One bonus question now was the runner up and very specific to each topic area is. 130 00:05:49,110 --> 00:05:50,860 Do you have recommended reading? 131 00:05:50,860 --> 00:05:54,350 Now we all do, check the teachers notes for more, I have compiled the list. 132 00:05:54,350 --> 00:05:59,150 So one more time, I want you to think of those course emails as a little 133 00:05:59,150 --> 00:06:02,180 nudge from us teachers pleading with you to communicate with us. 134 00:06:02,180 --> 00:06:04,020 Please write us, give us feedback. 135 00:06:04,020 --> 00:06:07,080 And heck just say hi, we always appreciate the contact. 136 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:08,650 Thanks for watching the Treehouse Show. 137 00:06:08,650 --> 00:06:11,040 To get in touch with the show reach out to me on Twitter. 138 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:12,800 Or hit us up in the Treehouse community. 139 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:13,350 See you next time.