Friday, September 26, 2014

Treehouse 14 Day Trial (Day 3)

Today I finished off  the How to Make a Website course. It's the first course in the Front End Web Development track.

It was really well done. It took me approximately 10 hours to complete. I have taken 2 extension courses and worked through an HTML & CSS book. I still learned quite a bit. The course was well presented and fairly easy to follow along with.

One nice thing is that after you complete a course the teacher will email you to encourage you. I normally turn off extra emails but it is actually nice to receive these congratulations from your teachers even if they are automatically generated. Since you are watching the videos you start to get to know the instructors and it's nice to receive a pat on the back from them.

I was just starting the next course in the track. It's called CSS Foundations. During the first video he mentioned that if you wanted a more in-depth look at HTML you could first complete the basic HTML course.

I felt like I had this information covered so I was happy to see you can skip through the content and quickly do the quiz and code challenges. I don't recommend doing this but it is nice that they don't force you through content that you already have a handle on.



They also have a slider you can bump up to increase (or decrease) the playback speed of the video. The slider goes from sleepwalker @ 50% to chipmonk @ 200% in 25% increments. It's pretty handy if you need it.

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