Articles by Team Treehouse from August 2015

Today I’m excited to announce that Treehouse is teaching Game Development! If you’re already a Treehouse student, you can take the first courseHow to Make a Video Gameright now.Here’...

Parker Phinney founded Interview Cake, an interactive practice tool for preparing for coding interviews. He’s focused on shining a light on the black box of the algorithm design process, showing...

For 17-year-oldColton and Nicole, web design and development were great ways to channel their existing talents and interests into future career skills. Nicole was intrigued by web design, seeing it as...

For 17-year-oldsColton and Nicole, web design and development were great ways to channel their existing talents and interests into future career skills. Nicole was intrigued by web design, seeing it a...

John Turner is CEO and Founder of UsersThink, which provides user feedback on demand for landing pages. He’s passionate about usability, UX, feedback, helping people, dancing, and high fives. Ch...

Every week, new content is published to the growing Treehouse Library! Here is a short list of what was added the week of August 17, 2015. COURSE Workshop:How to Create and Distribute an npmPackage &#...

      After four years in the Army, Nicholas Suddarth fell into the IT industry where he worked for almost 10 years. In early 2015, 33-year-old Nicholas found himself uninspired by his ...

Chris Winn is a Senior Web Engineer at Creative Market. Creative Market is a platform for handcrafted, mousemade design content from independent creatives around the world.   Every developer has ...

Having been unable to attend university, Attila relied on being self-taught to learn the skills he needed to pursue a career on the web. He jumped from one programming language to another during that ...

I haven’t been so excited since the early days of jQuery. React is a JavaScript library initially developed by Instagram/Facebook for building user interfaces. Since it has received a lot of att...

Have you ever worked on a team that struggled with getting things done? Not just pretty much done, but, really done. I mean, the kind of done where the work matches the expectations, the code has been...

Every week, new content is published to the growing Treehouse Library! Here is a short list of what was added the week of August 10, 2015. COURSE Ruby Gems– Jason Seifer Gems are libraries that ...

Inner City Hope USA is an inspiring new program offering high school computer programming and design courses to Americas inner-city youth to help guide them towards high-paying and meaningful careers ...

Photo by Pratik Biyani via Flikr Creative Commons How the Idea of Becoming Self-taught Infected My Brain Long before I knew what a computer was, I would jam out to the radio while sitting in my car se...

When Joe Dayviewas let go by his employer, hedecided to embark on a career change by pursuing his life-long interest in web development. So Joe seized the opportunity and dedicated himself to learning...

Jerry Cao is a UX content strategist at the collaborative wireframing & prototyping appUXPin. For expert advice on building creative yet feasible designs, check out the free 34-page e-book Buildin...

Every week, new content is published to the growing Treehouse Library! Here is a short list of what was added the week of August 3, 2015. COURSE npm Basics–Andrew Chalkley This course will get y...

A task is something you need to do. Ifyou want to perform that task over and over again, as you do in development, you’ll save yourself a lot of time if you automate the process. Common web deve...

We are so excited to grow our team of Treehouse teachers and have four new teachers to introduce to you! These amazing individuals will help us bring more content to you in a few topics, as well as of...

Robert graduated with a degree in Sound Engineering, but soon found himself unable to launch his career and returned to working part-time at McDonald’s while continuing to apply for jobs. But af...

Learning to code, whether done through a system like Treehouse or independently, can be a heck of a journey. Much has been written about the early bouts of confusion, impostor syndrome and debugging p...

Learning to code, whether done through a system like Treehouse or independently, can be a heck of a journey. Much has been written about the early bouts of confusion, impostor syndrome and debugging p...

Every week, new content is published to the growing Treehouse Library! Here is a short list of what was added the week of July 27, 2015. WORKSHOP Build a Responsive Navigation with Flexbox– Guil...

What made you start coding? I love peoples coding origin stories. I get excited hearing howsomeone got into coding because they got an iPhone and immediately wanted to create an app for it, or spent t...