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What is UX Design?
Picture this: you’re about to enter a building in your neighborhood. This could be an office building, a market, a library. Your cell phone buzzes in your pocket, and you’re a bit distracted as you approach the front door. You…
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It’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day!
On May 20, 2021, Treehouse joins in the celebration of the tenth Global Accessibility Awareness Day, or GAAD. Source: ucsd.edu According to the Global Accessibility Awareness Day website, The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, thinking and learning…
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Course of the Week: Intro to Design Thinking
Get started learning the user-centered methods and mindsets that entire businesses are using to improve their product experiences. “Design Thinking” is a core methodology and practice in User Experience Design. Intro to Design Thinking is a 75 minute course from Treehouse…
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Introducing the WCAG Principles
In my introductory blog post on Accessibility , I mentioned that the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is broken up into four accessibility principles: Perceivable Operable Understandable Robust These four principles are then divided into thirteen accessibility guidelines. Each WCAG…
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10 Popular Courses at Treehouse
Interested in learning to code, but not sure where to begin? We’ve got you covered. Treehouse currently offers over 500 interactive courses and workshops. Plus, we add new content to the Library every week! If you’re new to software development…
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Which Treehouse Course or Program Should You Do?
Are you new around here? If so, welcome! (If not, good to see you again!) At Treehouse, we offer a wide variety of ways to learn. If you’re not entirely sure where to start, that’s okay. We’ll help you break…
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How to Install Node.js and NPM on Linux
JavaScript is used everywhere today. From its birthplace in the Netscape browser in the mid-nineties, it’s made its way into all modern web browsers, onto mobile phones, and into electronics to make full-fledged web applications on the server-side with Node.js….
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What is SQL?
Programming isn’t just about web design. In fact, working with databases constitutes the majority of what many back-end and full stack programmers work on day-to-day. There are coding languages specifically created to work with data: fetching information from the database,…
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What is OOP?
As anyone working in software could tell you, coding can get really complicated really quickly. Luckily for them (and us!), OOP is there to make things simpler—and, ultimately, to make apps and sites run better. What is OOP? OOP stands…
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What is Git?
Curious how the coding world works? Well, there are lots of ways developers work on sites and apps together, and Git is one of the main tools they use to do it. What is Git? Git is a version control…
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What is a Full Stack Developer?
Confused about the definition of “full stack”? Turns out there is no set definition as far as specific coding languages, so we get how it can be confusing. However, if you’re an aspiring developer, it’s very important that you understand…
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What Is An API?
If you have a sneaking suspicion that APIs are something you should know about in 2019, you’re onto something! In 2019, APIs are more important than ever, and their prominence in the programming world is only growing. But what exactly…