Learn to Code - Codeacademy v/s Treehouse

Few months back I shared an article ‘Learn to code’ introduced by the team Codeacademy which lets you build and explore coding practices , experiences in an interactive manner. Today I am here to present another impressive learning site, sharing the same goal i.e. to teach programming online.

Competitor Treehouse, teaches web design, web development and iOS in form of video tutorials and quizzes. So what’s the difference between both of them and which should you join in? The answer from my side would be yes to both, experience what is more comfortable and easy for yourself.
Treehouse Home page
Although I found Codeacademy much interactive as they present an editor to play with and at the time you are done playing, you found out that you were actually learning while playing. Fun isn’t it? And mainly because Codeacademy is free of cost hurray :)

Well on the other hand Treehouse sound impressive as well but you need to be a paid user to enjoy the benefits of the site. Two plans Silver ($25/month) and Gold ($49/month) are provided, one can select as per his/her range. No trial signup, but You can watch a lot of there HTML videos for free. The lessons and syllabus seems to be more comprehensive than Codeacademy.

Codeacademy lessons include programming basics, javascript and its functions whereas Treehouse offers iOS development courses as well, which is not available in Codeacademy yet. I cannot comment much on Treehouse as i don't have my hands on experience due to no trial offers but as far as i have explored it, it seems brilliant. To increase site interactivity users are presented with motivational badges/achievements/ points with completion of a course, which helps in increases an urge and competition level.

Just today I came across knowing Treehouse has launched CodeRacer, a game that teaches people how to code. I still haven't tried my hands on this game yet but i would like to see it for once. Both the sites continue offering promising courses and keep adding new improved content on the site.

If you have an addiction to learning and exploring different technologies, then these sites are a must to give a look. Bravo to both the teams.

Comments

  1. KizuJuly 25, 2012 at 3:40 PM

    Excellent sharing...both of looks very professional..Good work

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  2. AnonymousMarch 4, 2013 at 12:35 AM

    If you want to start treehouse for 50% off on your first month go to: http://referrals.trhou.se/cmonk

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