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Posted by Aurelio Decock
Aurelio Decock
14,607 Points

front-end development track

I almost finished the front-end development track (i'm at the console foundations atm). But why is this course really important? I'm halfway the console foundations course but I find in pretty uninteresting. Is there any particular reason why we should really know this?

1 Answer

John Steer-Fowler
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John Steer-Fowler
Courses Plus Student 11,734 Points
John Steer-Fowler
John Steer-Fowler
Courses Plus Student 11,734 Points

Hi Aurelio,

I agree that Console Foundations is not very interesting, but it is extremely useful, that is why Treehouse has included it in the track.

Remember that Treehouse teaches content that is aimed at helping students get a job. As well as many other uses, the console is used frequently in many tech companies for version control (Git etc) and they would most likely expect you to know how to use Git and be familiar with the console.

I mentioned other uses for the console. Just some that I am familiar with is the ability to run scripting languages like Ruby and Python, web frameworks like Ruby on Rails and many more rely on the console for developing, testing and deployment.

This is a very brief and simple explanation of why it is important to learn (others may be able to expand on this) but I now hope you have a little extra information on why Treehouse teach Console Foundations.

Aurelio Decock
Aurelio Decock
14,607 Points

Ok, I understand, if this is really important for finding a job later on, I better pay some more attention since it only takes a few hours to go through this course. Thanks for the quick response!