July 13, 2017 in Community
98k Treehouse Points & Counting: Jennifer Nordell’s Coding Story
A few months ago, Treehouse student and moderator, Jennifer Nordell, caught our eye in the Treehouse Community. Not only had she worked her way through a phenomenal number of courses, she was also an incredibly active and valuable member of…
July 6, 2017 in Community
Navy Veteran to Software Developer: Geno Guerrero’s Operation Code Story
This week, we’re sharing our interviews with members from one of our Treehouse Scholarship recipient organizations, Operation Code, a non-profit that helps military veterans and their families launch new careers in software development. So far, we’ve heard from Operation Code’s…
July 5, 2017 in Community
From Marine Corps Veteran to Front End Developer: Billy Le’s Operation Code Story
Since the launch of the Treehouse Scholarship program last year, we’ve got to know the founders of non-profit organizations and been introduced to some incredibly inspiring scholarship recipients. Over the last few weeks, we’ve had the opportunity to speak to some of the…
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 8, 2017 in Community
From Marketing Student to Startup Software Engineer: Matt Hamil’s Story
Matt Hamil was a full-time college student pursuing a career in online marketing when he was told to learn the basics of programming. As soon as he began learning, coding became a natural fit for Matt. He quickly began working…
April 18, 2017 in Community
Taking My Career to the Next Level: How I Became a Developer
When he was younger, Sam Glister was fascinated with the web but never had the opportunity in school to learn how it worked and had never considered it as a career path. After graduation, Sam began a career as a…
April 12, 2017 in Community
What are Your Top 7 Favorite Treehouse Courses?
Michael is a Creative Manager at Treehouse, where he works on creating new content for Treehouse students, like the Treehouse Show and the Dev Team Show. 1. JavaScript Basics JavaScript is one of the most challenging languages to learn. It has…
April 5, 2017 in Treehouse News
Learn to Build an Alexa Skill with Treehouse
Treehouse has teamed up with Amazon to teach developers and non-developers to build Alexa skills. The course, Build an Alexa Skill, has been released today! What is Alexa? Alexa is a voice service from Amazon that powers devices like the…
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 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 6, 2017 in Treehouse News
Treehouse Partners with Microsoft for the Release of Visual Studio 2017
On March 7th and 8th, Microsoft will host a special online event to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Visual Studio and the release of Visual Studio 2017. Day one (3/7) will feature keynotes from Julia Liuson, Brian Harry, Miguel de…
January 26, 2017 in Learn
Evaluating a Package for Your Project: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
This article is specifically for people who are evaluating packages for their project. I will occasionally mention PHP specific technologies, but most of what is cover here should apply to any language you use. If you’d like to learn more…