July 10, 2014 in Business Resources
Code Oregon – 4,000 Spots Already Taken
In just two weeks, four thousand people have signed up for Code Oregon, the partnership between Treehouse and Worksystems designed to get Oregonians skilled up to work in the tech industry. There are only 10,000 places available so spots are…
June 18, 2014 in Business Resources
Treehouse and Worksystems partner to train 10,000 Oregonians to code
Treehouse is proud to announce the launch of Code Oregon, an exciting new partnership between Worksystems and Treehouse to fill the growing number of tech jobs in Oregon. By 2020, there will be an estimated one million more computer programming jobs…
June 18, 2014 in Learn
Get Started Working with APIs
The web makes finding and sharing information easy. In fact, the web’s success is largely due to how easy it is to find things. Instructions for repairing a car, the weather in a city you’re going to visit tomorrow, and…
April 23, 2014 in Learn
Can Computer Programming Boost Your Brain Power?
Brains Are Like Muscles, and Tackling Complex Skills Like Web Development May Help Strengthen Them Learning how to program for the first time was a challenge for Adam Waxman. He worked as a full-time investment banking analyst in Atlanta, but…
April 14, 2014 in Learn
The Beginner’s Guide to Ratchet: a Mobile Web App Framework
Ratchet is a front-end framework for building mobile web apps in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Ratchet 2.0 was recently released, so it’s a good time to start learning how to build Ratchet apps. If you just want to see Ratchet in…
October 18, 2013 in Learn
How to WebSockets [Complete Guide]
If you’re looking to take your programming skills to another level, Treehouse offers unlimited access to a variety of courses starting at $25/month. Try our program out with a free seven-day trial today. In this blog post we’re going to…
September 9, 2013 in Learn
The Beginner’s Guide to three.js
In this step-by-step guide, we’re going to create a 3D version of the Treehouse logo using three.js, which is a 3D graphics framework built on top of WebGL. Click and drag your mouse to orbit the camera! You can also use…
January 31, 2013 in Learn
The Absolute Beginner’s Guide to CoffeeScript
CoffeeScript has become increasingly popular over the last couple of years due to its adoption by the Node.js and Rails communities. Let’s take a look why it’s become the go-to language when people are wanting to write JavaScript in their…
January 18, 2013 in Learn
I Have an Idea for a Killer App, but Where Do I Start?
You know the signs: you can’t stop thinking about it as you fall asleep at night. Your mind wanders back to it when you know you should be concentrating on your work that currently pays the bills. You’re even a…
October 15, 2012 in Learn
The Beginner’s Guide to Android
If you ask someone what an iPhone is, the answer is pretty obvious, and even people unfamiliar with iPhones are likely to be able to tell you pretty accurately what it is. But if you ask, “What’s an Android?” you…
May 31, 2011 in Learn
What Makes A Great Programmer?
I remember it like it was yesterday. It was the year 2000, Dr. Pargas was standing at the front of our data structures class talking about some data structure-y topic while an SSH session was projected on the wall in…
May 7, 2006 in Learn
The Foundations of Ruby Arrays
An array is a list of items in order (like vitamins, minerals, and chocolates). Those keeping score at home might be interested to know that the Rails website framework makes 771 calls to Array.each, 558 calls to Array.map, and 1,521…