Some serious confusion between require http and https for us beginners. Please consider an update to this tutorial.

var https = require('https');
var http = require('http');
var username = 'asdhfjkasdgjkasgjkh';

// print out message
function printMessage(username, badgeCount, points) {
  var message = username + ' has ' + badgeCount + ' total badge(s) and ' + points + ' points in javascript.';
      console.log(message);
}

// print out error message
function printError (error) {
  console.log("error", error);
}
//connect to the api url
var request = https.get('https://teamtreehouse.com/' + username + '.json', function (response) {
  var body = "";
  //read the data
  response.on('data', function (chunk) {
    body += chunk;
  });
  response.on('end', function () {
    if (response.statusCode === 200) {
      try {
        var profile = JSON.parse(body);
        printMessage(username, profile.badges.length, profile.points.JavaScript);
      } catch (error) {
        printError(error);
      } 
    } else {
        printError({message: "there was an error getting the profile for " + username + ". (" + http.STATUS_CODES[response.statusCode] +         ")"});
      }
   });
  //parse the data
  //print the data 
});

// connection error
request.on('error', printError);