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Back End Programming Tracks to Come?

I am new to Treehouse. As a young married 22 year old with a newborn daughter that has been trying so hard to find education that is useful in what I'm passionate about has been literally impossible, research for it yourself. Treehouse is changing my life. It is giving me an affordable outlet to learn all that I have dreamed about learning that I couldn't afford at a expensive college or couldn't pick up from typical boring tutorials that have basic text and pictures on sites.

My big question is this, After learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery, and then diving into finishing the Ruby and PHP tracks.. what is next?

I want to learn languages for back end programming like;

SQL (further) Java(way different than JavaScript) ASP.Net Oracle ColdFusion ASP Python Perl

Does TreeHouse plan to expand their current tracks to develop people into extensive skill sets?

And even for C++ and C# languages?

I have a vision... a dream... that I have in my pocket. Eventually I will of course have to hire out more than me to complete this goal, because this goal is huge. It requires me to build a Social media site, a socially interactive application, and patents & licenses for a start up business.

I want to learn back end programming to be apart of actually getting the ground work completed. Treehouse is my only hope for this.

Steve pushed to create Applie, Mark to create Facebook, and many more that have created Instagram, SnapChat, Pinterest, Twitter, etc because of a vision they had. I believe this goal I have in mind has never been done before, and that it will grow to be as big in the world as some of these mentioned. But I have a long road ahead to work through;

If Treehouse does not plan to bring tracks for these languages, does anyone know of at least a somewhat decent and affordable option of learning a few of those languages that will really help me develop my dream?

Thank you Treehouse community for taking the time to respond and help me out!

Franklin

3 Answers

Eduardo Garcia
Eduardo Garcia
4,571 Points

I personally consider PHP+MySQL and any frameworks on top of it as back end, front end would be JS+jQuery, HTML/CSS. I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish but I think that's all you need for any web-based app. If you're going into Android, iOS, or even desktop applications, then C++/C#/Objective-C and Java are definitely needed. If you focus on the LAMP stack, then you can build any web-based app without limitations.

You can try looking at Lynda.com and Learnable.com for things that Treehouse doesn't have, I'm subscribed to both, and I like Learnable.com for their books, and Lynda.com for graphic design or non-webdev courses.

David Wible
David Wible
7,473 Points

Eduardo is spot on.

What they have here will take you a LONG way. First and foremost, learning to program takes a long time. Learn one thing well and go from there. If you are looking into the world of web then PHP and mySQL will do wonders for your backend work which are both taught here. The SQL is bundled in the PHP since they kind of go hand in hand. This site has everything you would need to get a HUGE head start in web/mobile development. Learn everything they teach here then then see where you stand then. Chances are, the foundation you learned will really help learning other languages. Plus, they have great info on the business side of web business.

Thank you guys a ton for helping me out! Okay.. so Lynda.com and Learnable.com to help with furthering learning of back end coding languages. Thanks for all the help. I am going to do everything on treehouse until im maxed out. But it helps to know where to go further.. Its kind of a bummer because I like the way Treehouse teaches it.. I wish they would expand into all those languages and make this site king.. then they could charge more.. but oh well..