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Posted by alexanderj
alexanderj
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Do the courses walk you through Setup/Installation of libraries?

Do all courses have you work through Treehouse's Workspace, or do they walk you through installation of the coding language's libraries. This way you could program on your pc rather than in workspaces.

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Jennifer Nordell
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Workspaces are a great tool for getting started and diving in immediately mostly for people that don't really know if this is going to be for them or not. That being said, some tracks and courses here require that you do your coding on your own system. The iOS and Android tracks stand out there. But in just about every case I've come across, the project files are available for download so that you can work on it from your local system which is something I highly encourage.

And while I can't say that the instructions for installation of every library for every course is available, I know that very many are. There are (among others) instructions on how to set up a PHP server on your local system, installation of Node.js and npm, installation of Mongo, installation of the Android SDK and more.

My best advice is to look at the Teacher's Notes (especially in the first few videos) if you're going to do this locally. In my experience they either cover how to set it up inside the course or link you to external information on how to get it set up.

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

alexanderj
alexanderj
1,698 Points

Thank You!