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By David Walsh on March 26, 2013

My sponsor, Treehouse, has mastered teaching complex development concepts and techniques using the visual media; something not easy to do, and neither is learning anew technology from scratch without proper guidance. Tutorials are nice but oftentimes make assumptions about current knowledge and don't tend to keep the reader's attention. Treehouse's videos are concise but provide enough detail to get eager developers up and moving quickly. Treehouse is giving my readers one month free to see what I mean, so go ahead and give them a try.

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To see the style of video they provide, here are a few Quick Tip videos from their awesome YouTube page!

Getting Started with Android Development

Exercise Your Creative

How to Achieve Pixel Hinting Perfection in Photoshop

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I recently posted an awesome (if I may say so myself) CSS3 / MooTools tutorials called Create a Photo Stack Effect with Pure CSS Animations or MooTools. The post presented two ways, a pure CSS method or MooTools-powered class, to duplicate Google+'s elegant photo stack...
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Adding Events to Adding Events in jQuery
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Discussion

Sandra Smith
Well never thought that learning android development would be that easy. The interactive guides are easy to follow and they are meant for the novice developer. Thanks for sharing.

Ben (Android teacher at Treehouse)
Just came across this article and I am so glad to hear that the Android courses are easy to follow! :)

Learn More, Faster with Treehouse

Getting Started with Android Development

Exercise Your Creative

How to Achieve Pixel Hinting Perfection in Photoshop

Recent Features

Animating CSS3 Transforms with MooTools Fx

Write Better JavaScript with Promises

Incredible Demos

Google Font API

Adding Events to Adding Events in jQuery

Discussion