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January 13, 2015 in Learn

Accessibility, Drag and Drop Interaction, Emojis | The Treehouse Show | Episode 123

It’s Tuesday, which means it’s time for another episode of The Treehouse Show! This week, hosts Nick Pettit and Jason Seifer explore accessibility on the web, drag and drop interaction ideas, emojis, and scrolling. Watch this week’s episode for free…

December 31, 2014 in Learn

A Brief Introduction to SVG

SVG, or Scalable Vector Graphics, is an XML markup language for creating two-dimensional images using vectors. Unlike JPEG and PNG, SVG is not raster-based, and doesn’t use pixels. This means SVG images can have an infinite level of detail, but…

December 18, 2014 in Learn

Optimize Images for the Web

One of the best ways to create fast websites is to optimize images for the web. HTML, CSS, JavaScripts, and fonts can add up, but nothing will slow a page down like tons of unoptimized graphics. In my experience, images tend to…

December 15, 2014 in Learn

Java & Everyday Objects

In the real world there are objects we interact with everyday. We have objects in code, too. That’s because as programming evolves, it comes closer and closer to how we behave and think in the real world. There are two…

November 26, 2014 in Treehouse News

New Courses: Interactive Android Apps & Flask Basics

New Courses: Build an Interactive Story App In this course we will build a simple choose-your-own-adventure story app, complete with fantastic illustrations. We will model our story and introduce the Model-View-Controller pattern, and we will learn about getting input from…

November 17, 2014 in Learn

Progressive Enhancement: Past, Present, and Future

Progressive enhancement is a layered approach for building websites using HTML for content, CSS for presentation, and JavaScript for interactivity. If for some reason JavaScript breaks, the site should still work and look good. If the CSS doesn’t load correctly, the HTML content…

November 5, 2014 in Learn

Eight Reasons You Should Learn Java

Let’s get one thing clear: learning how to program opens up endless opportunities and has endless benefits. You can learn it from the comfort of your own home, the job market wants and needs you, and it’s fun. Now, there…

November 3, 2014 in Career Advice

What Employers Are Looking for in a Junior Android Dev

We recently wrote a post that discussed what employers are looking for a in Jnr Ruby Dev. It was very popular so we thought we would tackle a different discipline this time – Android development. It is a wonderful time…

October 23, 2014 in Treehouse News

New Course: Android Data Persistence

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

Behind the Scenes of the New Treehouse Orlando Set

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

Real-Time 3D on the Web

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

We Are Family – The Whole Team!

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,…

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