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Thomas Katalenas
11,033 Pointsslow?
the videos are at a slow pace, because they want you to look at the documentation so it is explained in away that makes you think you aren't on the right track, not really explaining anything. Is that how you hint at people to look at the documentation. This part of your learning algorythm is cearly wrong.
Perhaps you should look at the Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language and fix the algorythm, this is the exact point where MOOCs mess up when you try to hint at people to get on a different track themselves is too sublimital for some people.
for example I can say this sentence
The cat ran over to the picknick table to stare at john, and get susan and jill to pet her.
Or you can use an aphorism. Defined below to say the sentence in a different way. aph·o·rism ˈafəˌrizəm/ noun noun: aphorism; plural noun: aphorisms
a pithy observation that contains a general truth,
The cat ran to the table to stare at John, and get the girls to pet her.
This video is to general perhaps this is to encourage the forums a tactic that clearly hasn't and doesn't work for me yet, maybe Im not doing it right because MOOC type learning is new. If people are exposed to different content, based off learning algorythms then there is an incentive to go to the forums and "trade information!" rather than everyone doing the same thing, but i don't like the sublimital route and that it would be nice to know what is going on as far as data and content and forum interactoions.
Like I said the video is too general the specifics can not be known as to why that is, an improvement can be mentioned more such as, the method api of createServer has two parameter request and response. Each method has different predefined parameters that is usually a given and not explained.
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![Steven Parker](https://uploads.teamtreehouse.com/production/profile-photos/969492/micro_tool_chess_set_2.jpg)
Steven Parker
230,688 PointsI don't think the courses are designed to direct you to use the forums. I have taken dozens of Treehouse courses without ever using the forums for assistance even once. In fact, I started reading the forums while taking a break from learning and wanting to share for a change. But while taking a course I never felt any push to use the forums even when they were mentioned as a potential resource.
Though the forum seems specifically designed to ask for help with course issues, I wouldn't actually recommend it except as a last resort, because the quality of the answers will vary widely. Now that I've actually started reading forum posts, I can tell you that sometimes an offered answer is totally wrong, and that's not a terribly infrequent occurrence. If you know how to use online resources, there's hardly any issue that might arise in a course that you can't find an existing solution for somewhere.
If the videos seem slow, there's a nifty speed control you can use to view them at a different pace. It does a great job of speeding the audio without shifting the pitch, and is much smoother than other systems I've seen that try to do the same job. I use it on nearly every video I watch.
![Kevin Faust](https://uploads.teamtreehouse.com/production/profile-photos/4112242/micro_python-programming-language.jpg)
Kevin Faust
15,353 Pointsthe teachers here arent exactly the best at explaining tbh...