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

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

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Post by bgramer »

ryancarson wrote: post #75
bgramer wrote: post #71

If the Treehouse folks are reading this, can they please add closed captions/subtitles to their videos? Lynda.com has captions and it has made the difference for me.

We have captions on all our videos actually. Can you see the 'cc' button on the video player (on the site)?

Sorry, I meant to say the onboarding videos, but I spoke too soon. I just looked at the HTML video and it is indeed captioned, it might be a nice idea to put in a small blurb somewhere saying the lesson videos are captioned.

MANY thanks for doing this. CC is a big deal and helps more people than it gets credit for. I really do appreciate that you included it!

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

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Post by cstefanovici »

cstefanovici wrote: post #80

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.

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

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Post by ryancarson »

jcizzle wrote: post #76

Given that APIs, especially for iOS and Android, are evolving so quickly that your videos are already out of date, what is your plan for shooting new videos when content changes? Won't it be difficult to maintain the same professional editing and keep up with the changes for the given platform? For example, the big players in iOS education (Big Nerd Ranch, Pragmatic) have been teaching iOS 5 since it was in beta; but…

Fair comment. The good news though, is that we're releasing new video every week and constantly updating current content. If something becomes outdated, we'll archive it for reference but focus on doing new video on the latest versions.

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

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Post by skadamat »

jinp6301 wrote: post #65

Hey guys! Great website design. I was wondering if there was a student pricing option. $49 a month is really really steep for a poor grad student and I would really like the project videos as well as the standard videos.

Double that!

I'm a student as well that is just interested in learning iOS, not necessarily even to get a job.

I know you guys have put a lot of time into these tutorials and are looking to profit from them, but I think having a student plan would be helpful for us and for you!

I think 10-15 dollars a month is reasonable, maybe 20 dollars a month tops for a student pricing plan.

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

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Post by apsurd »

jimrhoskins wrote: post #54
WilhelmJ wrote: post #49

The site looks great and very user friendly, but as others have pointed out, the paid-tier-only seems too restrictive. Specially given the motto of treehouse is "Millions of people can't afford a quality technical education, or if they can, it's out of date immediately when they graduate. We aim to change that." How can this compare to MIT (and other) Open Course Work and hundreds if not thousands of good free tutori…

I too learned Dev and Design through free resources and googling (It's still how I learn), but a lot of people find value in having a path laid out to them, and having consistency in the resources they learn from. Of course a lot of people on HN are going to be people who taught/teach themselves everything, but a lot of people want some hand holding, and that's what we aim to provide with Treehouse.

Interesting that you say a lot of people want hand-holding - I agree.

But don't you think in an industry like software development, you need to be able to self-educate. Software just moves too fast. So a person that needs hand-holding is not going to "get" what it takes to be a good programmer.

Do you disagree?

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

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Post by danso »

I haven't watched any of the videos (as I'm at work) but I love that there are lists of the subtopics: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/design-foundations/html/tex...

I'm always looking for tutorials to send to colleagues/friends who need an easy-entry into the basics, and it helps to know what topics are covered and how you've decided to organize/separate them. My main suggestion would be to include the subtopics on this page, or at least have a button that reveals them all: http://teamtreehouse.com/library/design-foundations/html

The page is already a long scroll...having the list of subtopics, IMO, would be more helpful than detrimental.

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

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Post by ryancarson »

skadamat wrote: post #70
rkalla wrote: post #9

Feedback: Have no idea what Treehouse is, clicked the site, took 300ms to look at the 3 giant buttons. Clicked "web design" (the site looks very nice BTW) ... and started learning about web design. Watched the first video, hit the only button "Let's Go" and found a collection of other videos to get me further down the path of web design, letting me skip directly to my problems areas instead of grinding through things…

Agree with everything above! I was worried I was going to have to pay for the iOS videos but boy was I wrong - and I'm glad, I'm just a college student > I really like the iOS intro video, y'all really put some time into making them, with the white backdrops and all. And yeah the website has a really simple, amazing UX!

Cheers! Feels great to get it out in to the wild :)

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

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Post by eigenvector »

So the operators of a web dev education site apparently don't know enough themselves to at least look at their website on Windows before launching?

Hint: if you are trying to sell stuff, it's probably best to reach out to the widest possible customer base. I can see no business reason to target Mac/Linux users only.

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