Friday, March 14, 2014

Treehouse Targest Begining Web Coders With New Course, Tools

Portland-based online education site Treehouse wants to make it easy for anyone to learn how to build their own website, saying Thursday that it has rolled out a new begineering web site coding course through its service. The company--which says the course helps students learn how to create their own websites from scratch--says the new "completely revamped" course is part of a new, code-editing environment it has developed called Workspaces. The new environment lets students work along in the cloud with instructors, saving their work and letting students work in the same environment as their instructors. The new "Workspace" also allows for things software engineers are very familiar with, such as "forking" of code to test out changes and ideas. Treehouse moved to Portland last year after scoring a $7M funding from Kaplan Ventures and Social+Capital Partnership.