Closed captioning. This wouldn’t have even pinged on my radar if it wasn’t for an email I received from a reader not long ago. Let me tell you about it.
You know that I have great affection for video courses like Treehouse. I love the ease of being able to learn when it suits you. Can’t sleep and feel like learning more about Objective C to work on that iOS app, not a problem—your teacher is always awake online. Now here’s the rub, and the gist of the email I received, what if you’re hearing impaired or English isn’t your first language?
Ah ah! You see the challenge don’t you?
Not long ago I received an email from a reader asking if one of the video courses I wrote about here had subtitles. I had no idea. I mean why couldn’t they? I don’t think that the particular course I wrote about then had them, but Treehouse does. When I was reading up on Treehouse that very feature caught my eye—all the videos have subtitles! So if English isn’t your first language (or you didn’t quite catch what the instructor said) or you are hearing impaired you can follow along with what the instructor is saying!
Oh, wondering what is covered in these courses? Yes, well, I that would be helpful, wouldn’t it?
These courses from Treehouse cover web design, web development, and iOS app creation. Three sets of skills that are always in high demand I find. Again, these are video-based courses (which you know are the kind I favor, unless you come to one of my classes in person that is) so you can fast forward, rewind, skip back, re-watch, and re-watch again until you get it. Since it is back to school time, how about you go back to school yourself and pick up a few more skills? If you’ve read this far, you’ve been thinking about it, so what’s stopping you?
Tris Hussey is a technologist, best-selling author, teacher, Canada’s first professional blogger, and general Internet Rogue. He has written several books on social media and technology including Create Your Own Blog (1st and 2nd editions), Using WordPress, Sam’s Teach Yourself Foursquare in 10 Minutes, WordPress Essentials (video lessons), and Sam’s Teach Yourself WordPress Themes in 24 Hours (forthcoming in late 2012 with Catherine Winters). You can read Tris’ posts on TrisHussey.com and other sites around the Internet.
5 responses to “Treehouse Web And iOS Development Courses [Ends Today]”
What? I thought that deal from a few days ago was the best way to learn Web Development. lol
Excellent! Its annoying when tutorial videos don’t have subtitles. All the ones at Lynda have them, which is great, but they only do software tutorials, not tutorials for developing more creative skills. And few of the other companies seem to bother.
I’ll check this out just for this reason.
I don’t know about Treehouse, but iTunes U has a great iOS dev course that I highly recommend –
Its Stanford’s “iPad and iPhone App Development (Fall 2011)”.
A great teacher shows you everything you need to know, all up to date with the latest iOS features.
It consists of high quality video lectures WITH CCs, followed by some very good home assignments to help you better understand the material.
He even goes into how to properly use the Xcode debugger and source control.
And as I already mentioned, it’s totally free.
Highly recommended! That’s how I learned to code for iOS…
Give it a try and you won’t regret.
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