Content outdated

and normally as a sophisticated school as treehouse, those similar things shouldn't exist, I mean, its a School, it has to keep updated with new MAJOR releases of different languages, cause now those courses are just useless staying there a fulfill content, otherwise, the students will simply go look elsewhere, cause its not that serious as we hear it is. I find it disappointing.

I am planing on taking the fullstack js course(i only have nodejs express and gulp left), should i do that or the content is too outdated?

Ok, thank you.

In Treehouse's defense, I think you will face this problem of outdated content anywhere you go. This industry changes so fast every day, that it's impossible for any "school" to be current and up-to-date 100% of the time. In order for that to happen, these schools would have to have access to all the language and framework changes before they are ever released to the public, and I personally don't think that will ever happen. Kevin Korte brings out some awesome points on this thread from several days ago. "Our world changes too fast to continue to produce quality content and learning experiences. But here is the thing, the core concepts, best practices, fundamentals, do not change, with rare exception."

http://blog.teamtreehouse.com/how-to-keep-up-with-the-web-industry

It is true though, and here's another thing to think about. I understand, when you're learning, you're copying. You're needing your hand to be held through learning something new. You need the training wheels. We all do. When things deviate, we all tend to have problems, and that can be frustrating.

But it's so important to start to learn the core concepts, more than how to copy and paste along to build a to-do app. Because for the exact same reason that Treehouse can't keep up, in the real world, when the training wheels come off, you're going to face similar challenges.

What happens when you get hired as a developer, and you're working on a project that is using a version of Ember that is two versions older than current. You have to learn to read the documentation, cope with the difference, and still produce.

Yes, Treehouse still has a course here building in Rails 3, and now we're on Rails 4.2. Does it make the Rails 3 videos completely obsolete? Nope. There are some real fundamental differences between Rails 3 and Rails 4. But in the wild, I might run into developing on a Rails 3 project. I have to know through documentation what's the the Rails 3.5, or rails 4.0, or rails 4.2 way to do something.

Do you want to really test yourself and get real world experience? Use treehouse's outdated course, and build the exact same thing in today's version. Yes, you're going to have issues. Yes, the code is going to change. That's great! Use the documentation to fix your problems, and make it work. It's so good, and so valuable.

I tried that following the Laravel 4 courses here, and built the same app in Laravel 5. I learned Laravel more this way than if I would have stuck in Laravel 4. I also learned where the differences between Laravel 4 and Laravel 5 were.

You know who moves slower than Treehouse at keeping with with the various languages, companies....companies move slower. Be a versatile developer, don't be a copy and paste developer.