Treehouse

In a world of free resources, codeacademy, khan academy, coursera, and many others - do you really need to pay for an online course? Hopefully this treehouse review helps you along the way with your decision:

1) Free trial - do it. Try it out before committing.... Read More Overall, I think Treehouse is worth it for those who want a detailed, guided experience, and to work through a very systematic approach to basic coding skills and web dev skills - but definitely not enough to take you to a full time job. I think that an in-person coding school might be better if you want a job and they provide pre-work that is very similar to what you'd do at Treehouse.

2) Not all courses are as good. I've tried out a lot of different tracks, and found that some courses are much better than others - make sure that you

3) Compare with other online courses. Try also codeacademy, khan academy, and coursera - different people learn differently and you may find treehouse works well for you, you may not.

4) Don't get trapped into monthly subscriptions and not use it - pause your account if you need. Make sure you are getting your money's worth. If you are not committed to learning and are just trying out. Treehouse is not the place - you should try out cheaper free courses first.

Conclusion: treehouse is great and very well designed, but I personally prefer to find free things to supplement my learning. I would do it again and would recommend to those who are seriously committed to learning (not experimentation stage).

Tip: Supplement treehouse with a coding bootcamp before applying for jobs - that is if you can afford to!

I have now quit my job to focus on code which I’m learning from Treehouse and Code School, you can find out why on the Treehouse forum.

There’s a boom at the moment and it’s focused on self online learning. There are numerous websites popping up all over... Read More the interest designed to help people learn a new skill. This post is focused on one of the most promising websites involved with this – Team Treehouse. I have been a member for a few months and decided to add a Team Treehouse review so you can see how awesome it really is.

What is Treehouse?

Treehouse is an online education platform designed to teach students to

Learn to build websites, create iPhone and Android apps, code with Ruby on Rails and PHP, or start a business.

Treehouse has over 1000 videos for these courses and they are increasing fast.

The Treehouse courses

The Treehouse course is divided up into 5 different categories. Websites, programming, business, iOS development, Android development and of course some bonus content.

Each course starts you off at the beginner level helping you get accustomed to the new skill you are about to learn and progresses towards the more difficult. You will also go through a series of quizzes and reward videos for completing the courses.

Typical course layout

TeamTree House

If you finish a course pretty fast you are always up to date with the new features with a timeline of when the new projects are being released.

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Latest Team Treehouse discount

Get 4 Months Off Our Basic Annual Plan
(Save $100 – 33% off)
Get 4 Months Off Our Pro Annual Plan
(Save $196 – 33% off)

Being a Treehouse student gives you access to plenty of perks, saving you thousands.
Awesome personality

Treehouse goes the extra mile for creating an awesome atmosphere for users of their course as the video below shows.

Got to love Mike the frog and the staff at Treehouse.
Treehouse Tracks

If you’re new to learning code then it can be pretty daunting knowing where to start. This is where Treehouse’s amazing new tracks feature comes in handy.

Treehouse-tracks

Here you can select which path you want to do. As you can see from the above there’s a decent number of popular tracks. You pick which one you want and then you’ll get this:

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Treehouse-ruby

You’ll get something like this for very track, it’s a roadmap of courses you’ll need to complete to complete the track.

To complete a track means you’ll need to put in a lot of hours. Each course within the tracks has multiple videos and quizzes which you’ll need to complete in order to progress onto the next course on the track.

One nice feature to keep you focused and motivated in the schedule feature. Here you can give yourself a timeframe to complete the tracks. This one shows how much I have of the Ruby track left.

I benefited from Treehouse's delivery of content/material. The instructors weren't monotonous in their tone and it was easy to absorb the information with the examples. Definitely something you want to do as you're applying to bootcamps - worth the $.... Read More

Treehouse is truly amazing. I first tried a free trial thinking I will stop it after the first month, I even set a reminder on my phone so that I don't forget! But after just a few days of using it I was hooked. I managed to make my own website within... Read More just a few weeks of starting out (and I even had a full time job taking up most of my time).

This is just an honest review, I don't get anything from treehouse by saying this. Just sign up for the trial and see for yourself!

Treehouse is great for newbies - really great.

It has great introductory courses in a variety of topics and they always make sure to add new relevant content every week.

And if you're a student, it's also cheaper (at $9 per month) than most other pay-to-learn... Read More platforms, but with anything, once you get the basics down, you're hungry for something more advanced.

So, for anything seriously advanced or developing full fledged web applications or otherwise, it would probably be better to go somewhere else.

Otherwise, it's a great site for beginners to get their feet a little wet.