Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

General Discussion

Posted by Abraham Juliot
Abraham Juliot
47,353 Points

Expired Courses? Who here would be thrilled to have access to them?

Hey everyone,

Who here is highly interested in having access to expired courses? Is this something Treehouse should consider implementing? How should it be featured without getting in the way of current content? Please share your thoughts and preferences.

For the time being expired courses can be accessed by grabbing the links at web archive. But, it would be awesome if treehouse students could gain easy access to expired courses and receive badges for completing them. I personally would swiftly subscribe to a pro account if expired content and their badges were included.

1 Answer

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points
Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

Honestly there is a reason that most of these classes are deprecated. I do think that the learning to program course is good, but its full of jargon, and can/was very overwhelming for people new to programming. Most of theses classes code is outdated, and of course no workspaces associated with the class. Personally Treehouse is better off with out most of those courses.

Abraham Juliot
Abraham Juliot
47,353 Points

True, but it could be good to learn outdated practices and methods in case you see them in the wild. I'm really saddened (in binary tears) to see all the swift 1.0 courses retired (they are soo good), and I fear the 2.0 courses will retire within the next year.

Check these out, for example:

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

I hate to say this, but outside of the Weather app course, all those courses are available, but for the new version of Swift. The Weather app course would be nice though.

Abraham Juliot
Abraham Juliot
47,353 Points

True. The replacement courses are better options and best to complete first. Maybe, as a bonus of completing the new course, students could have access to the old course. I and I presume others as well are interested in ranking up badges on some of the old content that is still descent learning material.

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

This is the essence of the world of programming, things become deprecated and new things are created. This occurs throughout the spectrum of this type of work. In with the new and out with the old.

Abraham Juliot
Abraham Juliot
47,353 Points

Totally understand. It's healthy learning to learn both old and new practices. For example, Angular 2 and ES6 classes have been stable in modern browsers for awhile now. But, its still good to learn and be aware of Angular 1 and ES5 constructors. It may take a number of years for the new to dominate. Albeit, Swift's new version is not necessarily comparable, the old courses still contain valuable content and an excellent presentation.