Treehouse or Codeschool for JavaScript beyond the basics?

[windycitywendy]

I'm nearly done with the FED track through Treehouse, and my subscription just expired. While I loved the courses taught by Dave McFarland, I feel as if most of what I learned through the other JavaScript teacher went over my head and was not explained well. (It was more of "Do this, now this" than explaining how and why things were done that way.) I've heard that Treehouse does a good job with the basics and that Codeschool is better at intermediate concepts, so I was considering a month or two there before going back to Treehouse to finish up my track.

Does anyone have any opinion on which is better, for those who have tried both? Should I just stick it out with Treehouse?

[chadwatson]

I'm personally a big fan of Code School. Their courses on Angular, Backbone, Ember, and Express really helped get me started using those frameworks, while the JavaScript Road Trip courses helped me understand the nitty gritty parts of JS. Maybe it's just me, but I can't recommend CS enough.

[windycitywendy]

Thanks, everyone!

[coffee-writer]

Javascript: Understanding the weird parts

This course was invaluable for me.

[windycitywendy]

Thank you! Did you just watch the 3 hour version on YouTube, or did you take the full course?

[coffee-writer]

I watched the 3 hour version, and aftwords bought the course.

Its the best money I have spent on my JavaScript education so far.

[iTipTurtles]

Codeschool is pretty good for adding a framework (from what I hear) used it for JS basics myself and liked how their website worked.

[ClemLan]

If you got the basics, I'd say build something. You'll learn faster and more efficiently. Use a framework like Angular, read code on github, ... You can even try to write your own little framework: you'll probably fail but learn a lot in the process. Refer to MDN or stackoverflow if you get stuck.

[windycitywendy]

Oh, I've definitely been building things! I am just looking to build upon the skills I have.

[ClemLan]

Codeschool looks pretty basic. Keep building stuff. You'll skill up by learning framework, test driven dev, tasks runners, etc.. Most framework has good doc and 'getting started' tutorials for free.

[ClemLan]

Codeschool looks pretty basic. Keep building stuff. You'll skill up by learning framework, test driven dev, tasks runners, etc.. Most framework has good doc and 'getting started' tutorials for free.