Greg Harris

Greg Harris

Troy, MI
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  • Going Further with Routing
  • Navigating, Nesting and Redirecting Routes
  • Getting Started with React Router
  • React Component Patterns
  • Stateful Components and the Effect Hook
  • Managing State
  • Data Flow
  • Build Modular Interfaces with Components
  • Understanding State
  • Introducing Props
  • Thinking in Components
  • First Steps in React
  • Storing and Tracking Information with Variables
  • Hello, JavaScript!
  • Branches on Git Hosting Services
  • Remote Branches
  • Merging
  • Stateful Components
  • Introducing Props
  • Thinking in Components
  • First Steps in React
  • Branches
  • Regular Expressions
  • Practical Jenkins
  • Pipelines
  • How Jenkins Works
  • Merge Sort and Linked Lists
  • The Merge Sort Algorithm
  • Building a Linked List
  • Exploring Arrays
  • Searching Names
  • Sorting Algorithms
  • Error Handling
  • Creating Distributable OOP Packages
  • Autoloading and Composer
  • Databases and International Concerns
  • Starting Right with PHP Best Practices
  • Creating a GitHub Client
  • Communicating with a RESTful API
  • Setting Up an Authorization System
  • Adding an Authentication System
  • Build a Library
  • What is Authentication
  • Errors and Exceptions
  • Endpoints and Routing
  • REST API in Slim
  • Templating Languages
  • Setting Up Authorization in PHP
  • Building Authentication in PHP
  • Testing Existing Projects
  • Test Driven Development
  • Introduction to Unit Testing
  • JSON Web Tokens
  • Cookies
  • Filtering Inputs and Escaping Outputs in PHP
  • $_GET and $_POST
  • PHP Inventory
  • PHP Includes
  • Vulnerabilities: Configuration, Components, and Logging
  • Vulnerabilities: Authentication, Access, and Sensitive Data
  • Vulnerabilities:  Injection, XSS, CSRF
  • The OWASP Top 10 Explained
  • Maintaining Secure Web Apps
  • Protecting Data and Keeping Attackers Out
  • Why Protect Your Web Apps
  • Security: Solutions
  • Security: Concerns
  • Security in Practice
  • Common Attacks and Defenses
  • Hello Internet!
  • Quantitative Methods
  • Usability Studies
  • Qualitative Studies
  • Measuring Your Designs
  • Persuasive Patterns
  • UI Patterns
  • Designing with Patterns
  • Applying IA
  • Evaluating IA
  • Main Principles
  • What is Information Architecture?
  • Planning Your Users’ Journey
  • Strategy: Determining Goals for your Product
  • Understanding Our Users
  • Intro to User Experience (UX) Design
  • Improving Usability
  • Mobile Usability
  • Website Usability
  • The Design Solution
  • The Design Problem
  • Design Principles
  • What is Product Design?
  • What is Usability?
  • How to Make Wireframes in Adobe XD
  • How to Make Wireframes in Sketch
  • How to Make Wireframes in Balsamiq
  • How to Make Wireframes on Paper
  • What is Wireframing?
  • Create a Banner Ad
  • Hello, Photoshop!
  • Digital Media Basics
  • Team Collaboration in Figma
  • Prototyping Designs in Figma
  • Introducing Figma
  • Save for the Web
  • Adding Images and a Mockup
  • Logo Design
  • Creating a Wireframe
  • Introducing Adobe Illustrator
  • Reformatting User Input
  • Validating a Form with Regular Expressions
  • Regular Expressions
  • Modular Media Queries
  • Sass Grid System
  • SMACSS and Sass
  • Sass and BEM
  • Getting Modular with Mixins and Functions
  • The Role of Selectors in JavaScript
  • Pseudo-classes and Combinators
  • Selector Basics
  • Getters and Setters
  • Working with Classes in JavaScript
  • Object Basics
  • Introduction to Object-Oriented JavaScript
  • Design Foundations Final
  • Becoming a Problem Solver
  • Understanding Aesthetics
  • Introduction to Design
  • Putting It All Together
  • Embracing the Process
  • Curating the Work
  • Portfolio Goals
  • Demystifying the Portfolio
  • Checking Out and Returning a Book
  • Starting with Some Methods
  • The Rough Plan
  • Telling the Story
  • Designing for Your User’s "To-be"
  • Understanding your User’s “As-is” Scenario
  • Becoming Acquainted with Your User
  • Becoming a Design Thinker
  • How to Critique Design
  • Building an MVC Project
  • Model View Controller
  • Common Commands
  • Directories and Files
  • The Command Shell
  • Building a Flashcard App
  • Sweeping Vues: Loops, Methods, Directives
  • What a Beautiful Vue!
  • Introducing Vue
  • Creating a Long Term Business
  • Protecting Yourself With Contracts
  • Establishing a Proper Workflow
  • Combining Array Methods
  • Pricing and Project Proposals
  • Finding Your First Project
  • Starting a Freelance Career
  • Array Manipulation
  • Array Iteration
  • Callbacks and the DOM
  • Callbacks with Timers
  • Introduction to Callback Functions
  • Video Marketing
  • Email Marketing
  • Search Engine Optimization
  • Usability Testing
  • Usability Basics
  • Social Media
  • GitHub and Other Remote Repositories
  • Managing Committed Files
  • Using a jQuery Carousel
  • Add a Sticky Navigation Bar
  • Introducing jQuery Plugins
  • Recursion and Space Complexity
  • Algorithms in Code
  • Time Complexity
  • All Together Now
  • Functions and Looping
  • Types and Branching
  • Meet Python
  • Playing a Counting Game
  • Perfect
  • Perform
  • Console I/O
  • Prepare and Plan
  • Rehearsal and Delivery
  • Creating and Refining
  • Preparing to Present
  • Perfecting the Prototype
  • Using your New Tools
  • Getting Started with Java
  • JavaScript Objects and Conditionals
  • JavaScript Arrays and Loops
  • JavaScript Functions
  • Data Types and Variables
  • Environment Variables
  • JavaScript Tools and Workflows
  • JavaScript is Everywhere
  • JavaScript Frameworks, Libraries, and Developer Roles
  • JavaScript Outside of the Browser
  • Improving Our Todo App
  • Services in Angular
  • Using Angular's Built-in Directives
  • Controllers and Scope
  • Getting Started with Angular
  • First Commits
  • Thinking in Components
  • Item Completion & Interaction
  • Nested Edits & Updates
  • Nested Routes & Controllers
  • Moving Forward with UX
  • Tools UXers Use
  • Relating Models
  • Laravel CRUD
  • Validation & Flash Messages
  • Laravel Forms
  • Laravel & Databases
  • Laravel Controllers
  • Laravel Project Setup
  • How UXers Think
  • What Do User Experience Designers Do?
  • What is User Experience (UX)?
  • Laravel Getting Started
  • First Steps in React
  • Contact Forms & Mailers
  • Slim and Templates
  • Dependency Management
  • Abstract Classes in PHP
  • Using Interfaces in PHP
  • Getting the REST You Need
  • The Logo Sprint
  • Logo Design 101
  • Finalizing the Project
  • Case Studies and Examples
  • The Brand Identity Design Process
  • Introduction to Brand Identity
  • Debugging, Best Practices, and Production
  • Refactoring with Sass
  • Installing Sass and Setting up the Project
  • Database Security
  • Queries & Results
  • Getting Started with PDO
  • Designing Interfaces in PHP
  • Extending the Family
  • Inheritance
  • Building a Collection
  • Building the Recipe
  • Understanding Classes
  • Why Object-Oriented Programming?
  • Parsing Specific Formats
  • Basic File Handling
  • Updating and Deleting Records
  • Reading and Writing Reports
  • Creating Records
  • Project Setup
  • Browser Persistent Data with PHP
  • PHPDB Stage 5: Search
  • PHPDB Stage 4: Pagination with LIMITs
  • PHPDB Stage 3: Using Relational Data
  • PHPDB Stage 2: Querying the Database with PHP
  • PHPDB Stage 1: Databases and PHP
  • Next Steps
  • Improving Our Tests
  • Behavior Driven Development with Mocha & Chai
  • Introducing Unit Testing
  • Completing and Testing the API
  • Communicating with Mongo Through Mongoose
  • Modeling Data for the API
  • Building API Routes in Express
  • Building a REST Service
  • Express Middleware
  • Sessions and Cookies
  • User Registration and Login
  • What is Authentication?
  • GET and POST Requests in a Browser
  • Introduction to HTTP
  • Creating and Modifying Database Tables
  • Go Further With Mongo
  • Working With Collections
  • Understanding MongoDB
  • Getting Started with MongoDB
  • Serving Static Files in Express
  • Applying Express Knowledge
  • Middleware
  • Deeper into Routing with Express
  • Using Templates with Express
  • Getting Started with Express
  • Improving your Gulp Workflow
  • Compile Sass with Gulp
  • Gulp your JavaScript workflow!
  • Welcome to Gulp.js
  • DNS Basics
  • Graphic Basics
  • Website Basics
  • Updating and Uninstalling Packages with npm
  • Installing Packages with npm
  • What is npm?
  • HTTP Methods and Headers
  • Creating a Basic Template Engine in Node.js
  • Handling Routes in Node.js
  • Creating a Simple Server in Node.js
  • Creating a Command Line Weather Application
  • Handling Errors in Node
  • Getting Data From an API With Node
  • Introduction to Node.js
  • Classes
  • Objects and New Collection Types
  • The Cooler Parts of ES2015
  • ES2015 Basics
  • Working with jQuery Collections (2017)
  • Understanding jQuery Events and DOM Traversal (2017)
  • Introducing jQuery (2017)
  • Day 3: Getting Creative
  • Day 2: Advanced Selecting
  • Day 1: Joining Tables
  • Orientation: Selecting Data
  • Subqueries
  • Set Operations
  • Joining Table Data with SQL
  • Table Relationships
  • Database Keys
  • Database Normalization
  • Date and Time Functions
  • Working with Text
  • Aggregate and Numeric Functions
  • Launching and Supporting a WordPress Plugin
  • Building WordPress Template Tags, Widgets, and Shortcodes
  • Connecting WordPress Plugins with 3rd Party APIs
  • Building a WordPress Plugin Settings Page
  • How WordPress Plugins Work
  • Custom Dashboard Widgets
  • Controlling Admin Navigation
  • Customizing the Login Screen
  • Admin Color Schemes
  • Hooking Into WordPress Plugins
  • Action Functions in WordPress
  • Filter Functions in WordPress
  • An Overview of Hooks in WordPress
  • A Template Hierarchy Review
  • Media Templates in WordPress
  • Custom Post Type Templates
  • Archive Templates in WordPress
  • Page and Post Templates in WordPress
  • Homepage Templates in WordPress
  • Core WordPress Theme Files
  • How WordPress Templates Work
  • Finishing Your WordPress Theme
  • Custom Homepage Templates in WordPress
  • Adding a Blog to a WordPress Theme
  • Custom Post Type Templates
  • Building Out WordPress Navigation
  • Building Page Templates in WordPress
  • The WordPress Loop
  • WordPress Header and Footer Templates
  • Working with CSS and JS in WordPress Themes
  • Starting a WordPress Theme
  • More Advanced PHP for WordPress
  • PHP Basics for WordPress
  • Introduction to PHP for WordPress
  • Ordering, Limiting and Paging Results
  • Handling Errors When Manipulating Data
  • Deleting Data from a Database
  • Updating Data in a Database
  • Adding Data to a Database
  • Finding the Data You Want
  • Getting Data from a Database
  • Data, Databases and SQL
  • Practicing Data Visualization in Excel
  • Chart Formatting and Layout
  • When To Use What Type of Chart
  • Introduction To Data Visualization
  • The Data Analysis Process
  • Getting to Know Your Data
  • Introducing Data Analysis
  • Build a Spreadsheet
  • Spreadsheet Best Practices
  • Spreadsheet Functions & Formulas
  • Getting Started With Spreadsheets
  • Introducing Spreadsheets
  • PHP Email Form Errors
  • PHP Email Forms
  • PHP Inventory
  • PHP Includes
  • PHP Internal Functions
  • PHP Returns & Closures
  • PHP Functions Basics
  • PHP Loops
  • PHP Arrays
  • PHP Conditionals
  • PHP on the Web
  • Daily Exercise Program
  • Unit Converter
  • Getting to Know PHP
  • Workflows
  • Working With Remote Repositories
  • Merging
  • Branches
  • Getting Started With Git
  • Why Version Control Matters
  • Installing Programs
  • Environment and Redirection
  • Console Processes
  • Console Users and Permission
  • Moving Around in the Console
  • Chrome DevTools Basics
  • Web Apps
  • Websites
  • Introduction
  • Quiz Practice Project
  • Prototypal Inheritance
  • Constructor Functions & Prototypes
  • Introduction to Methods
  • AJAX and APIs
  • jQuery and AJAX
  • Programming AJAX
  • AJAX Concepts
  • Combine and Minify Assets
  • Optimize Assets
  • Measuring Performance
  • Planning for Performance
  • DOM Traversal
  • DOM Manipulation
  • Events
  • Hello, jQuery!
  • Improving the Application Code
  • Editing and Filtering Names
  • Adding and Removing Names
  • Traversing the DOM
  • Responding to User Interaction
  • Making Changes to the DOM
  • Getting a Handle on the DOM
  • The Browser Environment
  • Create Function Using Arrow Syntax
  • Using Template Literals
  • Defining Variables With let and const
  • JavaScript Objects
  • WordPress Plugins
  • WordPress User Roles
  • WordPress Themes
  • The WordPress Customizer
  • Managing Media in WordPress
  • Managing Content in WordPress
  • JavaScript Arrays
  • JavaScript Loops
  • JavaScript Functions
  • JavaScript Conditional Statements
  • JavaScript Numbers
  • JavaScript Variables
  • MASH JavaScript
  • MASH CSS
  • MASH HTML
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Basics
  • WWW
  • The Internet
  • Installing WordPress Locally
  • What Is WordPress?
  • Treehouse Club - JavaScript
  • Art Direction with the Picture Element
  • Image Delivery with Srcset and Sizes
  • Forms
  • Tables
  • Objects
  • Links
  • Lists
  • Text
  • Introduction
  • Treehouse Club - CSS
  • Welcome to the Treehouse Club
  • Going Further with Grid Layout
  • Flexible Sized Grids
  • Introducing Grid Layout
  • Add Reusable Logic to Your Sass
  • Write Smart and Efficient CSS with Sass
  • Improve Your Workflow with Sass
  • Getting Started with Sass
  • Keyframe and Line Drawing Animations
  • Transitions and Transforms
  • Adding 3D Effects with CSS
  • Getting Started with CSS Transforms
  • Transition Timing Functions and Delays
  • Getting Started with CSS Transitions
  • Building Forms With Bootstrap
  • Using Bootstrap Components
  • Responsive Layouts With the Bootstrap Grid
  • Getting to Know Bootstrap 4
  • Building a Layout with Flexbox
  • Flexbox Properties
  • Understanding Flexbox
  • Design Patterns
  • Page Layout
  • Responsive Patterns
  • Media Queries
  • Responsive Theory
  • Positioning Page Content
  • CSS Layout Project
  • Page Layout with the Float Property
  • Controlling Layout with CSS Display Modes
  • Getting Started with CSS Layout
  • Final Project: Create a Typographic Site
  • Laying Out Type for the Web
  • Basic Web Typography
  • How to Choose and Use Webfonts
  • Introduction to Typography
  • Advanced Selectors
  • Going Further with Attribute Selectors and Pseudo-Classes
  • Selectors - Beyond the Basics
  • Exploration
  • Discovery
  • Captioning Video
  • Media Basics
  • Creating an SVG
  • Introduction to SVG
  • Structuring Tables
  • Table Basics
  • Choosing Options
  • Organizing Forms
  • Form Basics
  • Debugging HTML and CSS Problems
  • Sharing a Website
  • Responsive Web Design and Testing
  • Adding Pages to a Website
  • Styling Web Pages and Navigation
  • Customizing Colors and Fonts
  • CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
  • Creating HTML Content
  • HTML First
  • Beginning HTML and CSS
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Fundamental Concepts
  • Designing with the Latest Features
  • Basic Layout
  • The Box Model
  • Understanding Values and Units
  • Basic Selectors
  • Getting Started with CSS
  • Adding a New Web Page
  • Make It Beautiful with CSS
  • HTML: The Structural Foundation of Web Pages and Applications
  • Getting Familiar with HTML and CSS
  • Going Further with HTML
  • Images, Text and Links
  • Structuring Your Content
  • Getting Started With HTML
  • Finishing the Game
  • Introducing JavaScript
  • Newbie