*UPDATE* Change in direction!
So, after some thought, I've decided to make a change. I'm moving away from Treehouse! The content is outdated and is becoming increasingly difficult to follow. In the most recent project - the story app one - it's almost impossible to follow.
Nothing against Pasan himself as some of his stuff has been useful - I enjoyed generics, delegation and closures, even though they were very tricky at times! Yet, it does seem too fiddly, verbose and hard to follow. So once again, I am pausing my enrolment! There's no future with Treehouse - it's not got up-to-date content, is not making me a better coder and feels like I'm just filling time. So I will update the 'sticky' list and do a summary of what I have actually learned, by picking out the key parts for each entry.
I have scoured the different non-Udemy or Treehouse options online and have looked between two major choices...Lynda or LearnAppMaking. I've gone for the latter - and signed up for a free weekly trial of 'lessons'. I've already gone through the first part; it was some actually very useful ways to look at coding which have rejuvenated me a bit. Just one hour a day. One hour a day! Or two hours the next day if I can't! Sounds ambitious but it would really push my learning on. More revelatory than that is the idea that I can actually be hired as an app developer one day. I will do a proper summary of his first 'lesson' - more of a general info thing to be fair. I like the sound of what he's about and there's plenty of online content that is MUCH more up-to-date than Treehouse!
So a quick entry just to put a buffer between the Treehouse stuff and what I am going to be focusing on now.
Right, updated next day! Slight change in plan again, but not back to Treehouse for sure! The LearnAppMaking 'lessons' are more just blogs really. So far, there's nothing there to get my teeth into - maybe something down the line! So I am going with Lynda.com instead! There's a free month's trial there that I can go with until deciding whether I want to continue and actually pay.
So that's it! On to try out Lynda.com!
Nothing against Pasan himself as some of his stuff has been useful - I enjoyed generics, delegation and closures, even though they were very tricky at times! Yet, it does seem too fiddly, verbose and hard to follow. So once again, I am pausing my enrolment! There's no future with Treehouse - it's not got up-to-date content, is not making me a better coder and feels like I'm just filling time. So I will update the 'sticky' list and do a summary of what I have actually learned, by picking out the key parts for each entry.
I have scoured the different non-Udemy or Treehouse options online and have looked between two major choices...Lynda or LearnAppMaking. I've gone for the latter - and signed up for a free weekly trial of 'lessons'. I've already gone through the first part; it was some actually very useful ways to look at coding which have rejuvenated me a bit. Just one hour a day. One hour a day! Or two hours the next day if I can't! Sounds ambitious but it would really push my learning on. More revelatory than that is the idea that I can actually be hired as an app developer one day. I will do a proper summary of his first 'lesson' - more of a general info thing to be fair. I like the sound of what he's about and there's plenty of online content that is MUCH more up-to-date than Treehouse!
So a quick entry just to put a buffer between the Treehouse stuff and what I am going to be focusing on now.
Right, updated next day! Slight change in plan again, but not back to Treehouse for sure! The LearnAppMaking 'lessons' are more just blogs really. So far, there's nothing there to get my teeth into - maybe something down the line! So I am going with Lynda.com instead! There's a free month's trial there that I can go with until deciding whether I want to continue and actually pay.
So that's it! On to try out Lynda.com!
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