Introduction to Git

Git is a version control system - it helps you manage the different versions of your project files, and helps keep your work safe. This course will show you how Git works, and how to upload your projects to GitHub.

How to Give and Receive Feedback

Learn why feedback is useful. You'll explore a simple process for providing feedback (both positive and constructive) in a way that will be well-received and motivate the right behavior. You'll also learn tips for receiving feedback effectively and putting it into action.

Introduction to Selenium

As web applications grow in size it becomes difficult to reliably and thoroughly verify that the application behaves as intended. Manually stepping through the system gets tedious and time consuming. That's where automated testing tools become invaluable. In this course we will learn to use Selenium WebDriver, one of the most popular utilities for automating interactions with web browsers, to build automated tests for the purpose of verifying and maintaining a quality application.

Introduction to Data Security

Keeping data and communications secure is one of the most important topics in development today. In this course, we'll look at common methods of protecting both of these areas.

Computer Basics

In this course we're going to challenge what it means to be digitally literate by pulling back the curtain of how computers work. By the end of this course you should have a foundational understanding of computers and how we communicate with them.

Imposter Syndrome

Everyone has probably experienced Imposter Syndrome. We may not know what it is but we have felt it at some point. In these videos learn about what Imposter Syndrome is and tips to combat it.

Intermediate Selenium WebDriver

Manually testing your website can only take you so far. Learn how to use Selenium WebDriver to automate the process for you, and alert you to problems before your users see them.

Security Literacy

The internet is an invaluable resource for information and entertainment, but it doesn’t always protect your privacy and identity. This course offers an overview on how to stay safe and secure when using your browser and beyond. We’ll introduce foundational concepts about how online activity translates to internet traffic. We’ll then explore some common ways that attackers can view and manipulate this traffic for their uses and how to protect against them. And finally, we’ll establish some industry-recommended habits to keep you and your data secure.

How the Web Works

In order to surf the world wide web, you need an application called a web browser. You're probably familiar with this, you might even be learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to program for the web, but have you ever looked into how it works? In this course, we'll dissect each aspect of how the web works. You'll learn about URLs, domain names, IP addresses, the domain name system, and the HTTP protocol, to be fully prepared for web development or just a more knowledgeable web user.

Introduction to QA Engineering

Learn how to become an effective test engineer. Testing is something every developer must do to write effective and quality code, but going about what you should test and how to do it can be a challenging question. Quality Assurance is the practice of monitoring other developers' work and creating processes and tests that will ensure the product meets the end user’s expectations and limiting the amount of bugs that are released. This course will teach you how to become a Software Quality Assurance Engineer.

Introduction to Application Security

Welcome to the realm of web security, where millions of dollars and people’s lives are on the line. Well, not in all cases, but some! From protecting static web sites to the most complex of web services and APIs, every web developer should be aware of and adept at writing secure code and building systems that can stand up to the strongest of malicious users. In this course, we will lay the groundwork for what you need to know to get started exploring the vast field of web security, and along the way you will begin to realize that security isn’t about checking boxes, but rather about embedding the thought process and principles of rock-solid security into every line of code you write. First, we will discuss why security matters to you as a web developer, then we will look at data security at an implementation level, then finally we will examine the art of maintaining your websites, apps, and services on a daily basis.

How the Internet Works

Knowing how the technology you use everyday works will make you a more thoughtful and powerful user of technology. In this course we'll explore how the Internet works, by investigating hardware like routers, switches, and servers and the TCP/IP protocols that define how information moves from computer to computer.

Careers Foundations

In this Deep Dive, the Treehouse team shares expertise on focusing your passions, finding your path, identifying opportunities, and how to prepare yourself to get the job you want in the tech industry.

Technical Interviewing

This seminar will cover a range of what you might experience in a technical interview, since they vary by company. We’ll discuss best practices for whiteboarding and other alternatives such as pair programming or portfolio review as well as useful tools to help you practice.

Soft Skills

In this series of videos, we're going to explore the most important soft skills: personal and professional qualities that allow you to do your job better. If you can be an effective communicator, manage your time, work well with others, and be a great problem solver, you'll have a lot more success in whatever you do.

How to Have 1:1's

Learn WHY one-on-ones are the most important meeting on your calendar for you and your manager as well as HOW we recommend preparing for and best practices for one-on-ones.

How to Market Your Business

Marketing your business requires an understanding of how to communicate the benefits of your business to satisfy the needs of your potential customers. In this set of videos, we'll explore how to expand your reach and improve your messaging through various strategies such as social media, usability, SEO, video and email marketing.

Important Skills for Professional Success

No matter what job you're in right now or career you hope to have, improving your "soft skills" can help you become a better worker, better team member, and a better person. Embracing a work lifestyle involving communication and feedback, collaboration, and working together to improve things can only lead to positive results.

Researching User Needs

Many products are developed based on a hunch, a judgement call, and incomplete information. Needless to say, most of them fail miserably. Startup founders and business owners then ask themselves why. This course takes a different, risk-mitigating, more scientific approach to the art of starting a business. You’ll learn how to develop a product people really need by uncovering these needs well in advance. Before you write one line of code, before you hire a large team, before you take a big risk. You’ll learn the ins and outs of learning if people need your product by implementing three activities to learn from your future customers - Experience Sampling, Field Observation, and Interviewing. After making sense of it all, you’ll be able to kick-start your business with confidence in your knowledge and wisdom.

How to Run a Web Design Business

Paul Boag, co-founder of web design agency Headscape, explains the important steps behind running a successful design business or freelance practice. Understanding the fundamentals of marketing, promotion, sales, and how to manage client relationships can allow you to get your work done and create the business that best suits your lifestyle.

How to Build Your Business Through Blogging

C.C. Chapman, author of 'Content Rules' and 'Amazing Things Will Happen', presents his insights on how to start blogging, how to find ideas on what to write, and tactics and tools to create a variety of content that will build your audience and help you find new business.

Presentation Skills

Learn techniques for delivering effective presentations so you can help guide decisions, influence change, and make an impact on the business.

Copyright Basics

Understanding the basics of copyright and licensing in the United States is vital for anyone working in a creative field, and that includes web designers, developers, and mobile devs. Coding requires creativity and works created for the web fall under copyright law. This Deep Dive will give you the knowledge you need to both protect and share your own creations. You'll learn how to copyright your website or app, read license agreements, work with open-source software and Creative Commons, combat copyright infringement, properly license your own creations, and much more.

Careers in the Tech Industry

Through a series of interviews with Treehouse teachers and more, we explore the current state of the tech industry, including how to get started as a web designer, developer, or app developer.

The 5-Step Career Checklist

Welcome to your 5-Step Career Checklist, a course designed to guide you through the process of building essential skills and increasing your employability. This checklist comprises a series of tasks and milestones covering a wide range of crucial topics such as crafting a compelling resume, mastering the art of networking, and leveraging technology to showcase your abilities.

How to Freelance

One of the many ways you can make money off your technical skills is to branch off on your own and freelance. Freelancing and running your own business can be a very rewarding and fulfilling life with exciting projects and great clients but there are lots of things to learn. In this project we are going to look at how you can get started, where you can find clients, what you should be charging, and how to manage your first project.

How to Start a Business

If you have an idea and think you can make some money off it, it's time to start a business! In this course, we're going to look at what it means to take an idea and make a business model out of it. Once we have a business model, we're going to spread the word, try to sell our product and get real customers!

How to Write a Business Plan

One of the most common questions asked when starting a business is how to write a business plan. Business plans are used for many different purposes, from planning out your initial venture, to fundraising and conducting feasibility studies. In this course, we will cover what a business plan is, why we need it, the basic structure of a business plan and some of the various formats.

Introduction to Front End Performance Optimization

People want to use websites that load quickly, and every second counts. If a website takes more than 3 seconds to load, you can lose 40% of your audience. Every additional second in page response can result in a 7% reduction in conversions. In these lessons, we're going to take a slow website and make it load faster using front end performance optimization. By the end, you'll know many practical techniques that can speed up any website.

Scrum Basics

These days, just about every software team says they are “Agile.” You will even find many job openings declare familiarity with Agile software development as a prerequisite. What can you do to become familiar with, and knowledgeable in Agile practices so you can hit the ground running with your next team? In this course, we will cover the Scrum model, a commonly-used flavor of Agile which is well known for its clear definition of team members’ roles and the activities carried out by the team. This course will give you an understanding of Scrum and how it is used by teams in the process of building software.

HTTP Basics

During this course, we'll look at the underlying method devices use to communicate with each other: HTTP or the HyperText Transfer Protocol. In particular, we'll focus on how a modern web browser automates the sending of HTTP requests and the receiving of HTTP responses.

GitHub Basics

GitHub is a collaboration platform built on top of a distributed version control system called Git and is the best place to share & collaborate on code. In this course, you will learn how to use the key features of GitHub to showcase your coding projects, work with others, and get into Open Source. First, learn how to navigate the site and explore open source software. Then, learn how to host your own personal projects and some best practices for developing code collaboratively. You will also cover how to use GitHub as a professional on a team and how to get started contributing to open source.

Web Accessibility Compliance

Your content is clear, your images are responsive, your code is clean, and your layout flows beautifully on all the most popular devices. You think you're ready to launch, but you might have overlooked a crucial aspect of your website's development. If it's not easy for a person to access your content, regardless of the way in which they use the internet, there's still work to be done. Developing for accessibility should be part of the standard workflow, but it's often given too little attention. In this course, you’ll learn about the standards in place to guide developers in creating a web that is accessible to all users as well as techniques to help bring your projects up to those standards.

Front End Web Optimization Workflow

As more people are getting on the web every day, there is a desire for those web sites and apps to load quickly. Most users have become accustomed to better and better performance from their home computers and with more apps moving to the web, that desire for performance is still there. The fact is that slow load times cause user frustration and you lose users and possibly money. In these lessons we're going to exercise some common real-world examples of how you can make a slow web app perform better using common techniques for front-end optimization. By the end, you will have a better understanding about how web apps work, what causes performance issues and how to best address them.

AWS with S3

Whether you're building a major web site, backing up vacation photos, or sharing large files with friends, Amazon's Simple Storage Service, S3, will come in handy. In this course, you'll learn the basics of setting up S3, creating buckets, and controlling file permissions.

Markdown Basics

Learn the basics of Markdown—a simple, text-to-html tool used to format writing on the Web. It's used to write blogs, forum posts, technical documentation, and more. Whether you're having trouble formatting GitHub README files or want to learn about Markdown in general, this course is a great place to start.

Introduction to Docker

Docker allows any developer of any language to package an app into a container, like a shipping container. Containers include an app and all the other software it depends on, like databases. Containers let your users easily run your website, app, or service on any operating system they want. This course will show you how Docker works, and how it can make it easier to distribute your software!

Introduction to REST APIs

Many of the APIs you'll encounter on the Web use an underlying design idea known as REST, which stands for Representational State Transfer. Understanding what and how a REST API provides will help you build better and stronger APIs for your users.

Git Branches and Merging

This course introduces the concept of branches in Git and shows practical uses for managing both local development and collaborative workflows.

Algorithms: Sorting and Searching

This course will look at algorithms in two categories: sorting and searching. We'll implement well-known sorting algorithms like selection sort, quicksort, and merge sort. You'll also learn basic search algorithms like sequential search and binary search.

Introduction to the Terminal