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Andrew Chalkley
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Andrew Chalkley
Treehouse Guest Teacher

What do you want to see after jQuery Basics?

Hey all,

A number of you have been through jQuery Basics now so you should have a better feel of what you can do with jQuery.

We've got a long list of potential courses I can work on next but I just wanted to check in with you all to see if there is anything you'd like me to prioritize?

Dave McFarland is working on an AJAX course & we've got JavaScript Basics coming out in the coming months.

My question is what do you want to see?

  • More jQuery Projects like those in jQuery Basics
  • jQuery Plugins
  • CoffeeScript
  • Website Optimization
  • A newer Introduction to Programming
  • HTML5 / new JavaScript APIs like audio/video/geolocation etc
  • Working with 3rd Party APIs e.g. Google Maps
  • Node.js

Let me know what you want to see and I'll see what I can do.

Thanks!
Andrew

30 Answers

I think an expanded Introduction to Programming would be the best fit for the Treehouse community. After that an indepth JQuery Deep Dive. Then maybe Intermediate JavaScript to including OO JS.

Once all of that is covered then the community might be ready NodeJS, to avoid the skill leap like was so often noted in forums about How to Build an Interactive Website.

"expanded Introduction to Programming" - that would be helpfull.

Andrew Chalkley
Andrew Chalkley
Treehouse Guest Teacher

OK so we're looking to expand our Introduction to Programming courses with a couple of new courses. While I'm tackling these mammoth tasks Dave McFarland will be refreshing, modernizing, expanding some of the JavaScript content.

Great! Thank you, Andrew Chalkley, for the update!

AJAX Basics is coming next month (June '14)

I'd vote for Node.js

+1

I think we need a few intermediate courses before Node.js to avoid the issues with the skill leap like was so often noted in forums about the old How to Build an Interactive Website course.

I also vote for Node.js. Simply because I'm sure that a lot of people in here are not entirely "new" to programming, and it would be cool if there was more advance courses for people that already have knowledge on similar fields.

I agree with Adrian that not everyone here are new programmers. I think treehouse should have some more advanced/in-depth courses for professionals how want to explore new technology.

I'd vote for this (node.js) and would also be interested in Angular

Definitely more jQuery projects. Maybe Intermediate / Advanced jQuery courses? Also, animations with jQuery/JavaScript!

> Maybe Intermediate / Advanced jQuery courses

Do you think people who have taken JavaScript Foundations & JQuery Basics are ready for an intermediate course?

That's tough to say honestly. I would probably agree that a thorough Deep Dive of jQuery might be best. But I feel like the courses will at least allow people to dive into a more advanced course and understand the syntax even if they may not understand everything.

I vote for a strong CoffeeScript course. For my own projects, it would prove more valuable than more JQuery courses (considering that we have some JQuery already) in the near future. I'd certainly like to see more JQuery down the road, but right now, I'd like CoffeeScript.

I agree that there should eventually be a CoffeeScript course. But I also really feel that we haven't thoroughly covered enough of JS and jQuery, especially the latter. And CoffeeScript seems evolutionary to JavaScript, so it'd be good to cover it well.

I think more JQuery projects as well as a JQuery Deep Dive would be great!

I think a course that goes over OO Javascript while making a jQuery plugin would be great. Integrate some information regarding the DOM and BOM. Basically intermediate/advanced JavaScript with a project that involves creating a jQuery Plugin or JS library.

jQuery animations!

+1 Agreed!

Node.js.

I agree with James Barnett's first comment, in particular an in-depth JQuery Deep Dive. This could expand more on the features that JQuery has to offer which I think people would find very useful.

Working with 3rd party API's incl. Twitter.

A Javascript course along the same lines as the jQuery one, for sure (real-life example projects!), and APIs? Then maybe whatever would be needed to bridge the gap to JS frameworks (Angular/Ember/Backbone, Node, etc)?

All of that list looks great. Angular js would be a nice add on also.

Can I vote for more than one? Anyway, I would like to see these one's:

More jQuery projects CoffeeScript Website Optimization Working with API's

I would vote for more JQuery project/ in-depth knowledge as well.

I'd go for more JQuery projects

Expand on the intro to programming + jQuery deep dive

Well we don't have any lessons for XML :(

More advanced content, please. Google Maps is a must, but I would like to see node.js as well. Thanks.

I want javaScript intermediate level course.

I would like something about Node.js

JavaScript, JavaScript and more JavaScript. Treehouse is sorely lacking on its JS content when compared to its competitors. I would love to do some more JS tracks on here :)

jQuery/JavaScript and forms course. I feel like forms are the biggest real world example of needing more than just html/css to work right (for the user).

I think more JS, but there really should be a focus on troubleshooting existing JS as well as building from scratch and mitigation strategies such as making window level objects to store and virtual namespace your code and data for front-end.

My vote is for Node.js, I'm a loyal treehouse customer and have been for a while. I would love to see some more advanced courses, as I've become a bit bored with a lot of the content on here.

MAPS

An OOP based web application project video

Some sort of badge considering javascript's behavior in mobile browsers.

Advanced jQuery, I have seen it everywhere in job postings.

Agreed with above MORE JAVASCRIPT! The foundation course is good, but I took the suggestion of a moderator and checked out code school....learning a TON. I'm not one for saying "Oh, well the competition is doing this...so we have to do this", but at the same time. . . There was a new JavaScript Foundations course planned about a month or so ago and it never came to fruition...what's up?

Andrew Chalkley
Andrew Chalkley
Treehouse Guest Teacher

We had a guest teacher on board with it but for a number of reasons it didn't work out. Dave McFarland will be refreshing JavaScript Foundations with a more practical, need to know, project based approach.

We'll update the Roadmap when we're closer to releasing it!

Removed at moderation request.

> This is the closest topic I could relate this to so I'll post my idea here.

This should be its own post. On forums it's sometimes considered rude to hijack someone else's post about an unrelated topic.


Also, Java and JavaScript are unrelated, it's kinda like car and carpet.

Apologies, this has been the first day I've really used the forums.

You may delete my previous reply to the post in that case.

I did not in any way intend to be rude by posting about this. I just wanted to express an idea I had, that's all. From now on, I will do this in separate posts. Yet again, apologies for my reply!