I dont think I like using Treehouse's built in text editor. I'd rather use one that I would use on the job.

I was taking Thinkful's front-end dev course and I must say they have a number of things over Treehouse.

Before I get into it, let me say I've done quite a bit of researching on the various online web programming sites and resources and have tried a few of them.

Here are the things I think Treehouse gets wrong in my opinion.

1. Not having students code in a real text editor
2. Not having a project based curriculum

So basically what this boils down to is making it "real".

In the real world you will not be coding in Treehouse's text editor and you will need to be able to complete a project from beginning to end, you must know the process every step of the way.

At the Beginning of Thinkful's frontend course, they start you at the absolute beginning of what you would need on the job. They teach you about text editors, what they are and how to use them. They teach using Sublime, one of the most commonly used text editors around. They even show you how to add plugins to Sublime. As far as the project they teach you how to setup your folder structure, how to make your files, where to store them, how to use versioning control on your project with Git. Its just a more real experience of what its like developing on the job.

The point of this post is to help point out what those of us who want to learn need not to bash Treehouse. I think Treehouse has a lot going for it but I think the issues I brought up really need to be addressed and incorporated into what Treehouse is doing. And really this is what all these online coding schools/camps need to do.