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Posted by Dartiniano Omran
Dartiniano Omran
2,045 Points

Web Developer Course Material confusion

Hello,

I have a question regarding the “Become a Web Developer” learning adventure. Under “Things You’ll Learn” there is a multitude of topics but when I scroll down for details of the courses, it isn’t exactly clear what’s being covered. For example under “Things You’ll Learn” JavaScript, jQuery, CoffeeScript, and Relational Databases are all listed but I don’t see where they are covered in the actual course material. Is it because this material is embedded in other titles so it isn’t very apparent? I started the Web Designer learning adventure and decided to compare it to Web Developer because the courses are similar and web designer has JavaScript Foundations but developer does not even though they both list JavaScript in the “Things You’ll Learn” section. After HTML and CSS, the Developer learning adventure seems to be geared more towards Ruby. Am I missing something here?

Thanks! D

1 Answer

George Offley
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George Offley
Courses Plus Student 7,386 Points
George Offley
George Offley
Courses Plus Student 7,386 Points

Treehouse uses a project based approach to learning. For a lot of topics they'll cover something, and may not go into full details about the subject. I believe they put as much Ruby in because that's one of two back end technologies that they offer learning on. Also if you go through a lot of job descriptions they do ask for experience or knowledge with Ruby and RoR so I do think it's important to learn it. You'll also see in the web dev learning adventure that it covers ALOT of core concepts that you need to know before you start learning to program. That's my take on it at least.