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Leon Bateman
5,520 PointsAny more?
I absolutely loved the Digital Literacy course as it was very easy and i could just relax for a first. Please add more. :D Thanks for this.
10 Answers
Joy Kesten
Treehouse Guest TeacherHi Everybody :)
What a wonderful way to start the week!
I'm absolutely planning on more courses. I'm currently writing one for Web Development Foundations, and going over everything Juan de Elena O'Shea mentioned as well as a few bonus topics ;) We have a great course on these topics by Nick Pettit called Website Basics - but we agreed it needed a little brushing up. As for DNS, Jason Seifer has a great course and well worth a watch if you haven't yet.
As for the 9-14 tag, I'll look into it and let you know.
Thanks for the encouragement and I'll keep you posted!
Juan de Elena O'Shea
4,757 PointsHello!
Indeed I love the idea and the way Joy explains the material; and would definitely love to see more coming up!
That said, maybe if you have in mind expanding the course to the different kind of protocols used on a net (UDP, TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, FTP, etc), the course can easily become out of reach for the target of 9-14 year olds...
Just my 0.02$, but maybe it would be a cool idea to fork the course, keeping literacy for kids, teenagers and beginners, and something like IT concepts, for the curious minded who want to get messy with IT concepts and discover that actually there are no little goblins doing magic things when you hit the start button of your PC, when you save something in your hard drive, or when you browse the Internet.
Very recently I've had some wonderful "aha!" moments when reading about the TCP/IP protocols, such as: "Oh! That's what the famous ports are for!", or "Oh! That's who you are paying and why you are paying to buy a domain on the net!" For those of you who can understand Spanish, in a very old magazine called "Hackxcrack" they explain the harsh protocol concepts in a pretty nice way (but I'm sure Treehouse can do their thing and update and improve that).
Cheers!
Leon Bateman
5,520 PointsI completely agree with the idea of working on TCP/IP and all the rest. And as you said keeping it for 9-14 year olds would get rather tricky. :D
Elliott Mangham
13,086 PointsI would assume so because they've created a new 'skill' set in portfolios. I imagine they wouldn't do this without plans for future courses.
Stephen Van Delinder
21,457 PointsAgreed! I hope Treehouse grows this library to be similar to development tools. Understanding the fundamental electronic concepts of computer science is very enlightening.
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 PointsI believe there are more in the pipeline.
Joy Kesten mentioned something in another thread about web protocols and understanding how these work. That's a vague response from me lol but I'm sure she'll be able to tell us more about what's coming up! :-)
Sue Dough
35,800 PointsYes I would like to see more as well.
Elliott Mangham
13,086 PointsExcellent Joy Kesten!
Renee Rhodes
10,653 PointsI would love to see some material on internet protocols, how IP addresses work, and dns.
Joy Kesten
Treehouse Guest TeacherYour wish is my command ;) Very soon will be a course on how the web works, including URLs, domain names, IP addresses, DNS, and the HTTP protocol. Stay tuned!
Juan de Elena O'Shea
4,757 PointsHurray! Thumbs up!
AR Ehsan
7,912 PointsI can't wait until the next courses are launched
Joy Kesten
Treehouse Guest TeacherThanks, look for how the web works on Monday :)
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 PointsJonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 PointsOf the many times I've scoured the Library, I've never once spotted the Website Basics course lol Is it relatively new?
Anyway, I'll be sure to check it out. :)
Joy Kesten
Treehouse Guest TeacherJoy Kesten
Treehouse Guest TeacherJonathan Grieve on the contrary, it's very old which is why we are going to update :)
Jonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 PointsJonathan Grieve
Treehouse Moderator 91,253 PointsWell it's definitely new to me haha. I'm amazed I haven't seen it before now as I look at the library A LOT :)
Leon Bateman
5,520 PointsLeon Bateman
5,520 PointsFound it >http://teamtreehouse.com/library/website-basics< Gonna check it out in a lil bit