July 3, 2017 in Community
Operation Code: Connecting Veterans with Code Skills
Last year, we launched the Treehouse Scholarship program for like-minded, nonprofit organizations who provide support for those with disabilities, economic hardships, underrepresented populations and veterans. As it’s the 4th of July this week, we wanted to tell the story of…
June 28, 2017 in Learn
Why Go Interfaces are Awesome
In object-oriented programming, an “interface” is a description of the things an object can do. Usually, this takes the form of a list of methods an object is guaranteed to have. C# and Java both support interfaces, and so does…
June 5, 2017 in Learn
Contextual Action Bars: Removing Items from a RecyclerView
In this post, we’ll be looking at the Contextual Action Bar (CAB). CABs are a great way to let your users select multiple items and then take action on all of those items at once. One place you’ve probably seen…
May 24, 2017 in Learn
All About Android AsyncTasks
Let’s say you need to download a few images when you click a button. What would be the best way to do it? Well, since you wouldn’t want to interrupt the main/UI thread (and run the risk of showing your…
May 22, 2017 in Learn
Top 5 Tips for Learning
Learning is hard. It takes time and effort and is a never ending pursuit. So how do we make the most out of our time and effort? Here are my Top 5 Tips for Learning. 1. Spaced Learning If you’ve…
May 9, 2017 in Learn
Rules are Arbitrary. Set Your Own Career Path.
For a long time, traditional education dictated that after school, college was the next step forward in your career path. In that final year as seniors, millions of students follow the course and apply to schools, and then wait tediously for…
April 25, 2017 in Learn
Accelerated Learning to Code
As soon as we heard author and entrepreneur, Tim Ferriss at SXSW Interactive describing the benefits of Accelerated Learning, we were immediately hooked on the model. We were also eager to share it as a great approach to speeding up…
April 10, 2017 in Learn
Ruby on Rails: Configuration over Convention
What’s that you say? We have it backwards? Ruby on Rails is supposed to favor “convention over configuration”? Well, we’re going to break that rule today… When I was first learning Rails years ago, I thought that the model, view,…
March 29, 2017 in Learn
Slaying the Dragon: Imposter Syndrome
Another day, another new JavaScript framework. And another person on your team who is somehow already an expert on it. How does everyone else keep up in the ever-changing world while you feel like you’ll never know nearly enough? When…
March 22, 2017 in Learn
Scheduling Work with the JobScheduler
Android Lollipop was a huge milestone for Android. It introduced us to Android Wear, gave us a do-not-disturb feature, and unleashed material design upon the world. Not only that, it also gave us Project Volta, a set of changes aimed…
March 17, 2017 in Learn
An Introduction to React Native
React is a framework created by Facebook for data driven web interfaces. React provides a component driven architecture which uses a declarative syntax and is easily extensible. So what is the difference between React and React Native? React was originally…
March 2, 2017 in Learn
VR Performance Guidelines for New Unity Projects
VR performance is the bedrock of a great room-scale VR experience. Headsets like HTC Vive and Oculus Rift both run at a 90Hz refresh rate (in their current incarnations), meaning that the framerate of your Unity project needs to stay…