What is Git, and can it really recover deleted files?
Watch Git Save Me From a Failing Grade! The del command can be a scary thing. You use it in the Windows Command Prompt to delete files. They disappear immediately; you can’t even retrieve them from…
The Engineering People Show, Episode 27: Leonid Movsesyan
“People are generally happy with their work, with their job, if they feel impactful, if they understand how their career trajectory is going to progress and if they are compensated fairly. These are the most important…
The Lingua Franca of software: Why you need to learn JavaScript
There’s a lot of advice out there about what languages you should know. No matter the level of experience, technical background or language(s) they use every day, there’s one language that every developer needs to know:…
The Engineering People Show, Episode 26: Kevin Skibbe
“I heard feedback a while back described to me as you’re making a deposit or withdrawal from a bank account. Every time you give a bit of positive feedback, you’re making a deposit. And every time…
The Engineering People Show, Episode 23: Zak Stengel
“We will never — and never have to — sacrifice business objectives to achieve a diversity goal. Likewise, no one should ever feel like they have to sacrifice a fair and inclusive working environment or hiring…
MailChimp makes huge gains for diversity in technology
If you follow our social accounts for Treehouse, or my personal social accounts, you may have heard the exciting news that MailChimp is doing something incredible in Atlanta by starting their very first TalentPath group of…
Python for Beginners: Let’s play a/an [adjective] game
It’s amazing what you can do with just a few programming concepts. What if I told you that by the time you’re done reading this post that you’ll be able to create your own version of…
Read MoreThe Engineering People Show, Episode 25: Dr. Anurag Maunder
“I know some engineers will be disappointed by that, but it’s easier for me to find a smart person than for me to find a hardworking person. If there is one message I can give to…
Read MoreThe Engineering People Show, Episode 02: Dana Lawson
“We have a rule, ‘No meetings are mandatory.’ If you don’t feel like you’re getting value out of this meeting, don’t go. You don’t have to go. Obviously, there’s a couple of times that meetings are…
Read MoreLearn to Wireframe
What is Wireframing? Have you ever had an idea for a website or mobile app? Maybe it’s an app for WiFi enabled treasure trolls … or a map that displays vegan desserts within a five mile…
Read MoreThe Engineering People Show, Episode 24: Prashant Pandey
“The fact was that we were building a company that looked just like the rest of Silicon Valley. It was not a diverse company, and at some point, just looking at experiences of companies that we…
Read MoreThe Engineering People Show, Episode 01: Hadi Hariri
“… when everyone is remote, it is much easier to have a remote team than when you have maybe one or two people remote and everyone else in a location, because the mindset often is different…
Read MoreHow to Install Sass on Windows with Chocolatey
Have you ever needed to replace the same color in 50 places throughout a gigantic CSS file? It sure would be nice if you could make that color a variable and change it in one place….
Read MoreHow to Install Sass on MacOS with Homebrew
Have you ever needed to replace the same color in 50 places throughout a gigantic CSS file? It sure would be nice if you could make that color a variable and change it in one place….
Read MoreHow to Learn Python: Where to start and how to stay with it
Hello World! If you’re thinking about learning a new programming language, in the very near future, you’re going to be outputting that phrase, “Hello World”, to your screen. It’s guaranteed. It’s like a rite of a…
Read More10 Must Have Tools for iOS Developers
When it comes to tools for iOS developers, there’s only one essential for writing apps, and that’s Xcode — so really this is a very clickbait title (gotcha!). Xcode comes with a whole suite of tools…
Read MoreAcquiring Bricks: How to learn code like a foreign language
I had always heard that the grammar and syntax of coding languages were in so many ways like foreign languages, but for me, foreign language courses were much less intimidating than computer science. That drove me…
Read MoreHave you seen our new look?
A Fresh New Look Have you seen our new look? Our Topics have gotten a fresh coat of paint. After years of continuously publishing new content, the number of Topics we now teach has expanded to…
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