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The Techdegree program gave me a boot camp experience but on my own time. Really well-done classes and tutorials to help me fully grasp the concepts at play in lessons. Quizzes to help me verify I understand the material. If you do the boot camp, you will submit projects via GitHub that give you a chance to test the skills you learned. You'll also have the chance to peer review other students' projects to help you enforce your understanding of the material. Currently, we have been using Slack in the Techdegree program to allow us to meet others in our program, as well as work directly with support staff (Shout out to Rachel!) who can assist when we get stuck on anything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I was hoping for information on Django and NoSQL databases. Unfortunately, Treehouse lost a lot of great instructors last year. I'm hoping now that with Xenon and Jason Gilmore at the helm that they will bring in some new talent and help the next generation of coders and devs to be successful! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. The slack community is great!

2. They guide you on your first couple of projects when you still feel a bit overwhelmed with everything, but as you progress they start holding your hand less and less, really forcing you to use the skills build-up to make the project work! This really helped me in learning how to do research as well, and that's probably one of the best skills to have when starting your first job. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the content did feel a little outdated to me. You would be asked to use react-router v4 for example in a project but v6 is already out. I do understand that technology progresses so fast that it is hard to keep up with the content, but it made it difficult at times since the syntax changes between versions and makes it harder to follow along with the lessons. With that said, now that I have my first development job, I can say learning how older versions of frameworks, etc. work are also required as a lot of companies don't necessarily want to update to newer versions as it is likely to cause some app breaking bugs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Self-paced. Some of the teaching assistants were helpful. Less expensive than most traditional bootcamps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lots of the content was outdated. This meant having to downgrade components to follow along, and having to learn the modern/current ways to do things on my own.

There was zero mention of unit/integration testing which seems like a glaring omission. Every interview I've had wants me to write automated testing. I'm having to learn that now and feel like it should have been part of all of our Treehouse projects.

Some of the content felt rushed/tacked on as a band-aid solution to the outdated content. Most were not helpful. Some of the projects were kind of lame, I did not include most in my portfolio.

Lastly, the "Techdegree" branding is annoying. It looks like a typo, and employers don't know what it is. I have to explain it's, "basically a bootcamp" to everyone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I absolutely loved the videos and the way in which they presented the material. The course structure is amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only thing I disliked what that for the TechDegree you can only send one project at a time even though I understand why. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really liked the way the instructors explained things in the lectures. They have a really nice way of going about it. I also really liked the Techdegree projects. They were challenging and I learned a lot from completing them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be nice if there was a React Techdegree. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's a good amount of material to follow and the instruction is mostly clear. They are supportive, cost competitive and you can take your time learning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The lack of material to accompany videos. There are transcripts of each video, but helpful notes to follow doesn't exist. Starting and stopping videos is frustrating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The combination of project based tutorials and slack support from dedicated student success assistance Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At times outdated information that is required to go through for some modules Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Treehouse is a great starting point if you're looking to build a strong foundation in web development. The tech degree also includes building some great projects along the way. Treehouse also offers a slack support group which was very helpful. They answer fast and are very supportive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing. Overall, I'd say, for a starting point, this would be a great place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The instructors are very helpful and the community is always there to help you when you need help on the assignments or you get stuck on a hard topic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes the responses aren't quick so you are going to have to wait sometime before getting a response. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The videos were very informative and visual Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the videos were a little on the older side Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.