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General Discussion

Programming Experience

What do you do with your programming knowledge you have gained from Treehouse? I'm an Economics Major and want to get a feel for how people have utilized this program!

Thanks,

Tony

4 Answers

I love Treehouse .

I am programming since I was 10 years old by reading the internet language manual and watch video on youtube.

but I found Treehouse lot easier to learn , Treehouse explain clear and saving time.

My Code are more organize and cleaner than ever before

For Example ,

I write a lot of php code when I am going sanitize the input

before I use the regex replace to sanitize things

but from Treehouse , I known the php function that I never know before is filter_var

which is a lot easier than what I actually done before , reading document on the internet.

Treehouse making my code a lot shorter , cleaner and organize

I am also learn object oriented from Treehouse too . At first when I think about OOP, It was confused

but Treehouse make the concept a lot easier and to follow , Showing you step by step

That is why I love Treehouse ;)

Hi Tony, I'm someone coming into IT with no prior knowledge or interest. I've looked at a few other free/low cost learning options online, and most of them lack a lecture component to understand what the heck we're doing and why. For example, code.org has a great GUI (graphical user interface, or aka what we interact with) and a great way to "sneak" programming skills in, but instruction about what the heck you're doing and why is completely absent. I am currently in school for an Associate's in computer programming, but to be honest, my program is awful and ironically hasn't taught me anything. I've supplemented my classes with Treehouse. In fact, I'm taking 2 terms off to just focus on Treehouse. I do also supplement Treehouse with code.org and the Head's First series from O'Reilly (example: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596009205.do) I feel these books combine how the brain works with learning a new programming language and presents the material in small chunks like Treehouse.

In in short, TH provides a great foundation for me to learn about the various programming languages, but it's not without faults...like I dislike the TH Wordpress, PHP, and Ruby instructors' teaching styles. So far TH hasn't "yielded" me anything though. I don't expect it to.

I love WP here at TTH, its amazing, everyone loves Zac! :D PHP, is alright. And Ruby is interesting with Jason and Nick!

Nice! Thanks guys...