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October 23, 2014 in Treehouse News
Being able to save or persist data within our apps is an important fundamental skill. It enables our users to save their work, remember their preferences, store all types of files for reuse, and more. These features are evident to…
October 23, 2014 in Community
If you’ve been a Treehouse student since the very beginning, you might remember the look of our earliest videos. The original set was… well, we didn’t really have one. The actual first Treehouse set, built at our offices in Orlando, Florida in…
October 22, 2014 in Learn
When you watch an animated Pixar movie, the 3D graphics are extremely detailed and realistic because they’re “pre-rendered”. Each frame may have taken many hours or days for the computer to render and then later you watch those rendered frames in…
October 15, 2014 in Community
Here we are – the Treehouse team. This photo was taken at our recent Lake Tahoe company meet-up. There are 75 of us (give or take a few stragglers). Most of the familiar faces are in there, Nick, Guil, Andrew, Pasan,…
October 9, 2014 in Learn
To make a network request in Swift (read HTTP request), there are a couple of different ways of doing it – NSURL, NSURLRequest and NSURLSession. Since iOS 7, NSURLSession has been the preferred way of carrying out networking tasks let’s…
September 25, 2014 in Community
I recently interviewed Mattox Shuler, a type designer who runs Fort, his type foundry. Mattox was kind enough to talk to me a bit about his journey to becoming a full-time type designer and his new Treehouse course. MS: Mattox, let me start…
September 22, 2014 in Treehouse News
Whoohoo! Our Android app launched. Our new Android app makes learning with Treehouse even more accessible. Watch videos, take quizzes, and complete code challenges directly on your tablet or phone.
September 17, 2014 in Treehouse News
We have launched four new courses that will help you learn Swift, the exciting new iOS language. Swift Basics by Amit Bijlani Swift is a new programming language created by Apple to program iOS apps. If you are new to…
September 8, 2014 in Learn
In August 2014, Android developer Evan Anger visited the Treehouse studios to shoot a brand new Android course. In this behind-the-scenes sneak peek, Evan discusses his experience teaching on set. Look out for Evan’s “Android Data Persistence” course, coming soon…
August 6, 2014 in Learn
One of the most popular courses on Treehouse is How to Make a Website, which walks through the process of building a complete portfolio site from scratch. However, even after completing the course, the learning is only just beginning. Thousands of students have…
July 31, 2014 in Treehouse News
Interested in getting your Treehouse account completely free? For every person you refer to Treehouse, we will give you 20% off your monthly bill. If five people join, that’s 100% off your individual membership! No coupon codes required! As long…
July 29, 2014 in Learn
(Photo from Flickr user Jeremy Levine) HTML tables have a bad reputation. In the 1990’s and 2000’s, many web professionals would use tables for positioning text and images on web pages. Using tables for layout is bad, but unfortunately that message sometimes…