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Re: Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development - Treehouse

#161

"Watch videos and take tests" Am I missing something? That's your learning method? Nothing interactive? No coding? Videos may be a fine way of understanding a process but it's not good for something as in-depth as coding. You don't learn code by watching videos of others doing it, you learn by coding. The site design is nice but you'd need to offer a lot more than videos to get me to sign up.

I think this site is targeting the youtube generation--nothing wrong with that. I personally would prefer to see higher caliber technical books enter the market. However, it seems the acclaim here concerns more the site design than the service itself.

Re: Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development - Treehouse

#162
I just subscribed and...

I feel so wary if you aren't asking for my CVV or Billing credentials. Why do banks even allow you to bill without those details using only CC# and Expiry Date? It feels more than a little suspect and weird (though I know that this isn't the case here for you).

Re: Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development - Treehouse

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I really like the simple UX, although I believe others have already provided some good suggestions for improvement.

I'm among the group of visitors who wants to know more before I click any of the big 3 icons. I'm also interested in improving (and adding to) my novice HTML/CSS skills, so I immediately saw value after reading the home page. It came as quite a shock you wanted $50/month to access your full content!

You may want to take this chance to consider a different $ model. Sure, you have plenty of competition- including big name universities- charging way more for effectively the same training. But free substitutes abound. The internet is flooded with tutorials, etc. about how to make stuff for the internet. No matter how much "better" quality you provide, I think prospects will balk at your rates and turn to free resources instead.

But you might still make a lot of money from providing your content "for free". If you only granted access to registered subscribers, you have a great tool for building a strong email list. The demographic has already identified itself: these are people interested in learning more about web & iOS development. There's a lot of cash to be had marketing software tools, templates and all sorts of tertiary materials to this same demo. Imagine the affiliate commission on 1 copy of Adobe CS5.

Also, I found it annoying the "Sign your team up" button on the http://teamtreehouse.com/groups page simply looped back to the main 'Plans' page. Seemed like a mistake when I first clicked; only realized it was intentional after scouring the Plans page to find out "you can easily add other users at a discount". But what are the multi-seat rates?

Re: Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development - Treehouse

#165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

RYAN CARSON this is lame in that its an expensive version of http://www.codecademy.com Also you are using the same videos from ThinkVitamin which provide good introductory knowledge and that's it. Codeacademy makes you actually code and had badges long before you guys.

Actually, I think Codecademy used badges after Rails for Zombies did...so everyone must be copying Greg and crew right? Who cares...no one really cares about badges anyway...except of course, VC's, who are already out of touch.

OK, so I lied. Badges are surprisingly addicting. I've spent the past hour and a half unlocking them on Treehouse.

Re: Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development - Treehouse

#166
post #45

Seems really interesting. What differentiates Treehouse from Code Academy?

Has any progress been made with Codecademy? I still only see three JavaScript courses. Has no one contributed to the lessons?

I contributed a lesson to Codecademy that just went live today on the DOM and jQuery: http://www.codecademy.com/courses/jquery-and-the-dom

Re: Learn Web Design, Web Development, and iOS Development - Treehouse

#169

This is a repackaging of the thinkvitamin website from Carsonified. These are literally the same videos I already downloaded from ThinkVitamin. Same talking heads, same, same...

RYAN CARSON this is lame in that its an expensive version of http://www.codecademy.com Also you are using the same videos from ThinkVitamin which provide good introductory knowledge and that's it. Codeacademy makes you actually code and had badges long before you guys.

tryruby had the in-browser coding before codecademy. I'm pretty sure codecademy uses the jq-console plug in which was around before: https://github.com/replit/jq-console

Badges have been around in video games and educational games for a while and Rails for Zombies already used them.

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