New Treehouse site launches

https://teamtreehouse.com/

by ryancarson • 13 years ago

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ryancarson• 13 years ago

We're so excited about this new release. Hope you like it!

MWil2• 13 years ago

I hope it's because you're being bombarded right now but it is moving like molasses for me.

Do you have any plans to offer free 3 days trials?

licenseplate• 13 years ago

Even better ~ they offer a 30 day money-back guarantee. Cough up a credit card up front for a whole month, then get your money back.

jonolay• 13 years ago

I'm usually a massive fan of what you guys do, but man, I've got to say that you need to use this tool on the pricing page, in particular:

http://leaverou.github.io/contrast-ratio/

clupprich• 13 years ago

Like the redesign! Is it Bootstrap based?

Some feedback: the button hover states could be a bit more intense and some transitions would be nice (e.g. the navigation flyout on smartphones). The navigation button is also missing a cursor: pointer attribute.

pavs2• 13 years ago

My very limited and one person experience with online video tutorial sites. Don't read too much in to it, just my experience.

- Lydia: Probably the best in terms of depth and options. But I only tried couple of them.

- TutsPlus: Second best in my opinion. But again, limited experience with only one author.

- Khan Academy: Love the UI, love the gamification, love the concept. But its more for entry level education (for now) and less of high-level, in depth learning. If they can apply the gamification to higher level learning (or just have more higher level content) it would be awesome.

- Treehouse: I have very very limited experience (just the php video series), I felt that it was a bit goofy. Like their target audience is someone who is not computer savvy or 12 year old.

I feel video is probably not the best medium for learning programming related contents. I think video can definitely supplement a text heavy learning, but otherwise I think textbooks are better way to learn programming (maybe its just me).

I would love to know experience from other HN-er's or any other online video tutorial sites they might have tried.

MWil2• 13 years ago

GA's Dash and CodeSchool have taught me more in the last two weeks than I could have gotten at the same rate in all the self-help books I've collected.

It's not video. It's video+challenges. CodeSchool in particular has challenging challenges where you have to actually think, not just regurgitate.

bendoidic• 13 years ago

What is your experience with in-browser, project-based sites, like code academy, code school, and code avengers?

pavs2• 13 years ago

Khan Academy is also in-browser project based. I think it supplements learning, but they don't really push the boundary. Like for Code Academy (which I forgot to mention before), the exercises were very simple and I didn't think they pushed me to think harder. Way too easy. I want very hard projects/exercises but I also want them to give me study materials that will help to me understand the problem. Code Academy won't make anyone a serious programmer, probably not even a hobbyist.

The other two mentioned, I never used them before. I might check them out.

russelluresti• 13 years ago

I've tried code school, codecademy, and treehouse, myself (never really got into Lynda.com, seemed like the quality was too varied).

I like the treehosue approach - videos plus quizzes plus exercises plus projects - but I do think it's aimed mainly at beginners (which is probably why it felt goofy to you, because they're trying to make it approachable for people who aren't yet comfortable with technology).

I do wish there was a resource out there like Treehouse for learning more advanced topics.

ltcoleman• 13 years ago

The new site looks great guys! I have had our dev staff using treehouse for over a year now, and for the devs that get into it, I can see their excitement after each new technology they start to pick up.

Treehouse is AWESOME!

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