All of the lessons learned in your article are really good ones, particularly about reading documentation, and even copying code at first. It's something we struggle with at Treehouse, we want our courses to be as smooth and error free as possible, but it's a bit disingenuous to portray building an app as something so smooth.

Developers encounter errors, Google error messages, and dig through docs all the time. We're trying to integrate some of the bugs we encounter into the videos, to hopefully shed some insight onto how to troubleshoot when errors inevitably occur.