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I'm actually quite curious about Treehouse. I'll probably be finished with the AI for Ambition later this month and I'd like to release an attractive, marketabl

I'm actually quite curious about Treehouse. I'll probably be finished with the AI for Ambition later this month and I'd like to release an attractive, marketable version before the end of 2012. I've worked on mostly back-end software my whole life, but I need to learn front-end development, and preferably reasonably quickly (because I work full-time, and I don't mean to trivialize FE development because I know it takes a long time to become great at it; I'm just looking for an efficient path to reasonably good). Is Treehouse a good place to learn how to do this kind of thing? (Sorry to thread-jack with my personal interests, but I'd imagine a lot of people have similar objectives.)

suhastech 14y ago
I don't think "front-end" development can be learnt methodologically. I'm assuming that front-end development ties in a bit of design skills to really make it effective. I'm a backend guy myself. I'm probably good at thinking up nice UI, coding it with CSS or Interface Builder. In real life they somehow don't seem right. I'm not sure. I guess I need to delve a little bit more into design theory? That said, there are some proven textbook recipes for front end development that mostly works.
ryangallen 14y ago
As someone who has completed most of the Treehouse badges, I can tell you it is worth your time for learning front end dev. Here's some front end design work I did with what I learned in a couple months - slatetechnologies.com . I was pretty happy that I could build a tablet out of straight HTML/CSS.