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Add to SafariWhen comparing Team Treehouse JavaScript vs The Odin Project, the Slant community recommends The Odin Project for most people. In the question“What are the best resources to learn JavaScript?” The Odin Project is ranked 5th while Team Treehouse JavaScript is ranked 12th. The most important reason people chose The Odin Project is:
The Odin Project is a project-based curriculum which means you are able to build projects for your portfolio as you work through the sections.
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Pros
Pro Short videos
The short, engaging videos that TreeHouse provides for all of their courses make it easy to stay focused and absorb what is being taught. The short video lengths will help keep you from getting discouraged at the amount of material to be covered.
Pro Build projects as you learn
The JavaScript courses (and JavaScript related courses, such as jQuery) take the students through building various projects, such as lightboxes and web apps.
Pro Covers different libraries and resources in addition to plain JavaScript
Treehouse offers well over a hundred courses and the list is growing quickly. This means that not only can you learn JavaScript with Treehouse, but they also provide courses for a variety of libraries and frameworks (such as jQuery, Node.jS, Angular.jS, and more).
Pro Challenges for keeping the user engaged
Treehouse provides coding challenges throughout the courses. You code directly in their editor, and your code is checked to make sure it's correct.
Pro iOS and Android app
Treeehouse provides an app for both iOS and Android that is easy to use.
Pro Build a portfolio as your learn
The Odin Project is a project-based curriculum which means you are able to build projects for your portfolio as you work through the sections.
Pro Free and open source
The Odin Project is a completely free and open source alternative to coding bootcamps.
Cons
Con Credit card required to sign up for the free trial
Treehouse offers a free 14-day trial, but requires a credit card to sign up.
Con The forum lacks conversation/engagement
TreeHouse provides a a forum for students to have discussions. However almost all posts are students looking for answers to the quizzes and challenges. Any attempts at general discussions about business, learning, programming, job seeking etc. tend to go without replies.
Con Light on CS
The Odin Project touches on computer science concepts, such as data structures. However the explanations are quite light and something you'll want to learn more about from other resources.
