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Xavi Guasch
Xavi Guasch
10,882 Points
Posted by Xavi Guasch
Xavi Guasch
10,882 Points

How to know how old is every course?

Being that some of the courses are quite older than others, a few of them contain outdated parts. Knowing that the bulk of it is still very useful, it's understandable there's no need to remade them from scratch all over again just to tweak a couple of things. Also, we have the Workshops to add these new tidbits.

But still, I think it'd be nice to have the publication date on each course to have a better idea on whether or not the course in question might be up to date or not.

What are your thoughts?

clickpass
clickpass
23,992 Points

Xavi,

Thanks for posting. I totally agree with you. I'd very much appreciate publication dates on the courses and videos--especially for the JavaScript videos.

A S
A S
7,485 Points

Agree! some of the courses/videos are REALLY old, around 5-6 years I would say!

1 Answer

Jay Padzensky
Jay Padzensky
4,731 Points
Jay Padzensky
Jay Padzensky
4,731 Points

Hey Xavi,

Thanks for the input. This has been a well-debated question internally. We do not post dates simply because we don't want students to get hung up on when content was posted and stress over whether every detail is up to date or not.

By and large, iterations between languages leave foundational knowledge, like much of what you'll find here on Treehouse, the same. Should languages make changes, we'll leave a video up and offer some notes about the changes in the "Teacher's Notes." If/when a video requires too many notes, we tend to then produce a refreshed series of videos for that topic.

For example, a couple of years ago when iOS updated from Swift 2 to 3, we reshot virtually all of our content due to how considerable some of the changes were. However, with Swift 3 to 4, the changes are pretty minor in comparison, so much of the video content hosted now is still up to date and relevant, with changes being noted in Teacher's Notes.

Thanks, I hope this helps!