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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

Recent Features

By David WalshJuly 28, 2011
Animating CSS3 Transforms with MooTools Fx
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...
By David WalshNovember 26, 2012
Animated 3D Flipping Menu with CSS
CSS animations aren't just for basic fades or sliding elements anymore -- CSS animations are capable of much more. I've showed you how you can create an exploding logo (applied with JavaScript, but all animation is CSS), an animated Photo Stack, a sweet...

Incredible Demos

By David WalshMarch 11, 2009
Implement jQuery’s hover() Method in MooTools
jQuery offers a quick event shortcut method called hover that accepts two functions that represent mouseover and mouseout actions. Here's how to implement that for MooTools Elements. The MooTools JavaScript We implement hover() which accepts to functions; one will be called on mouseenter and the other...
By David WalshMarch 27, 2013
Detect Pseudo-Element Animation Support
A while back I posted an interesting tidbit from Daniel Buchner which allows developers to detect DOM node insertions with JavaScript and CSS animations; an awesome trick driven by CSS animations. Lea Verou recently posted another detection snippet driven by CSS animations: detecting pseudo-element...

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

Animated 3D Flipping Menu with CSS

Incredible Demos

Implement jQuery’s hover() Method in MooTools

Detect Pseudo-Element Animation Support

Discussion