October 19, 2018 in Business Resources
Change Wave 007: Isaac Councill
Isaac Councill is the VP Engineering at Oscar Health, where he is responsible for all Software and Site Reliability Engineering teams. Prior to Oscar, he worked on applied computational linguistics at Google and as a Research Scientist at IBM Almaden…
October 18, 2018 in Business Resources
Three Healthy, Sustainable Ways to Incentivize Employee Learning
Think beyond the gift cards and shoutouts in company chatrooms — here’s how to motivate employees to engage with training resources on their own.
October 15, 2018 in Business Resources
Change Wave 005: Robert Krohn
“Usernames and passwords have to go. We need to replace them with other forms of authentication that are really more universal. We see a future where it’s your voice that is going to be used everywhere you are.”
October 8, 2018 in Business Resources
Change Wave 004: Dory Weiss
“The things that I loved about being a teacher and a facilitator, and the ways that I like to think about classroom dynamics, those things translate very well to organizational dynamics”
October 1, 2018 in Business Resources
Change Wave 001: Mikey Butler
“The definition of merit is culturally specific so non-majority-culture people show up and don’t line up with the traditional definition of merit. The broadening of the definition, understanding that it needs to be modified as a result of you going down the path of inclusion becomes part of the journey your company has to make.”
September 26, 2018 in Podcast
The Engineering People Show, Episode 30: Nidhi Gupta
“If retention is busted, no matter how many candidates you bring in through the funnel, it’s a leaky funnel — so people, even if you attract them and they join the company, will just leave.”
September 18, 2018 in Learn
The Lingua Franca of software: Why you need to learn JavaScript
There’s a lot of advice out there about what languages you should learn, but there’s only one language that every developer needs to know: JavaScript.
August 13, 2018 in Learn
Acquiring 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 to studying Italian in…
August 9, 2018 in Treehouse News
Have 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 26 — with more…
July 19, 2018 in Learn
5 Skills You Need to Become a Backend Developer
Web developers wear many hats. Even if they only work on the “backend,” writing code that will run on the web server, they need to be able to: Write the HTML code that’s presented in the user’s browser. Write program…
July 9, 2018 in Learn
Promises, promises: A quick introduction to JavaScript concurrency
A quick introduction to JavaScript concurrency At some point in your life as a programmer, you’ll need to deal with code that runs asynchronously. Normally, code runs one command after the other. Nice and predictably, It goes from top to…
July 6, 2018 in Learn
Is learning to code harder than learning Italian? Self-taught mobile developer: Jo Lingenfelter
I recently had the delightful opportunity to chat with iOS Techdegree graduate Joanna (Jo) Lingenfelter. As a fellow person who entered the tech field with a non-technical degree, I was excited to learn more about her path from earning a…