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CSS CSS Foundations Getting Started with CSS Fundamental Concepts

Mark Leonard
Mark Leonard
7,428 Points
Posted by Mark Leonard
Mark Leonard
7,428 Points

This course is still part of the web design track but old and being retired. Should I still do it or another one?

This course when I click on the course and not the track seems to be getting retired. It seems to be covering a lot of stuff covered in how to make a website, and stuff I already knew from elsewhere. Should I do another CSS course, stick with this or just skip it?

Is it best to do everything in a track? Or is it easy to skip a course?

4 Answers

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,117 Points

I would do the CSS Basics class, along with the CSS layout and Selectors classes. Most of the stuff covered in the Foundations class is covered in those. the main reason why is that workspaces is active in the new classes, if you don't mind using your own text editor then there is nothing wrong with Foundations, I took it and its great. Lastly the new classes are updated.

Jonathan Grieve
MOD
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points
Jonathan Grieve
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,252 Points

I started out with the CSS Foundations course. So I would recommend doing if you have the time. Then the Basics and Selectors course. Do them both, but do what toy think it's right. If you prefer do the basics course first.

But I would recommend downloading the Foundations course videos via Itunes. They may be a couple of years old now but the teaching in most if not all of the videos is still relevant IMO. :-)

Mikkel Secher
Mikkel Secher
5,436 Points
Mikkel Secher
Mikkel Secher
5,436 Points

It's a hazzle without the Worksheets... :(

It's kind of annoying treehouse recommends taking other courses, and then the next steps in the track are locked because I have followed the ones that are recommended taking instead... :(

david chase
david chase
4,030 Points
david chase
david chase
4,030 Points

I chose to "update" my track, only to be essentially set back to retake much of the content I learned in Foundations by its replacements "CSS Basics" and "CSS Selectors". Had there been an option to "test out" or at least be given some kind of credit, that's one thing. But I was seeing much of the same content in the replacement modules.

So, I've requested to be reverted back to the "old" version of the Web Design Track. I can't give you advice opposite what folks above have given, but I don't like repeating the same material or spending precious time/money to do so.