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Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?

#31
Spend $15 of it on Laracasts.

I don't even use PHP and it's still one of the highest ROI purchases I've made. The videos on editors, tooling, Vue, and the ideas I can take from the Laravel world into my Phoenix/Elixir world are well worth it.

Jeffrey Way is an incredible teacher!

Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?

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I haven't taken any paid online courses that fit within your budget, but there are plenty of high quality free courses. Depending on your experience, I'd recommend the following: - Coursera Learning How To Learn: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn - Harvard's Online CS50: https://cs50.harvard.edu/college/2020/spring/ - MIT's Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python: https://www.…

Are you saying you’ve bought more expensive courses? If so, which ones?

Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?

#33
post #9

I haven't taken any paid online courses that fit within your budget, but there are plenty of high quality free courses. Depending on your experience, I'd recommend the following: - Coursera Learning How To Learn: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn - Harvard's Online CS50: https://cs50.harvard.edu/college/2020/spring/ - MIT's Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python: https://www.…

Are there videos for MIT's distributed systems course ? Can't seem to locate it in the site.

It's on the 'schedule' page: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/schedule.html

Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?

#34

Check out LinkedIn Learning, we've got technical courses at all levels, and a bunch of other topics like creative stuff and professional skills as well. All available as part of a monthly membership that's within your $50/mo budget ($29.99/mo or $19.99/mo depending on duration). Disclaimer: I work there, creating some of the technical content.

LinkedIn learning is sh!t. I don't know what kind of population they target? You need to be really dumb to learn from any of those courses. They have programming course targeting people who never program in life, ridiculous.

Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?

#36
If I had a $50/month budget, this is how I'd spread it:

  $10 - https://subscription.packtpub.com/
  Are you interested in frontend?
    $40 - https://frontendmasters.com/
  Otherwise
    $29 - https://www.pluralsight.com/
    $10 - go for a random course on something I've never done
Courses I've (extra)enjoyed:

  - 60% of Rust courses on Packt
  - https://mastery.games/p/flexbox-zombies
  - https://laracasts.com/series/learn-vue-2-step-by-step
Shoutout to Jeffrey from Laracasts, it's been years since I've taken his Vue class, and I don't use Vue anymore, but the calm, straight-forward way he explains things stuck in the back of my head. When I have to teach something, I try to be Jeffrey.

Packtpub has been the best resource for my area of interest. It should take one a really long time to run out of free resources and into buying subscriptions. There are few good courses, that are not inflated with BS to increase their length.

When I find a course I'm interested in, I pirate it. If I consider it got me enough value to justify the asked price, I'll buy it as well. More than 80% don't.

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Some learning resources:

  > These are just a few, trying not to post a wall of text.

  Standard course sites:
   - https://www.packtpub.com/
   - https://www.coursera.org/
   - https://www.pluralsight.com/

  Academia(/ish):
   - MIT OCW
   https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/captioned/
   https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/
   Notable:
    - https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-tll-005-how-to-speak-january-iap-2018/
    - https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-04-quantum-physics-i-spring-2013/lecture-videos/
   - MITx - https://micromasters.mit.edu/
   - https://www.edx.org/course

  Math:
   - https://www.mathsisfun.com/
   - https://mathproblems123.wordpress.com/

  Frontend:
   - https://frontendmasters.com
   - https://scrimba.com/
   - https://mastery.games/

  Devops:
   - https://www.aws.training/
   - https://linuxacademy.com/
   - http://linux-training.be/
   - http://write.flossmanuals.net/command-line/introduction/
   - https://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/

  Places where you can practice (development):
   - https://projecteuler.net/about
   - https://open.kattis.com/
   - https://www.codewars.com/
   - https://codeforces.com/contests
   - https://codingcompetitions.withgoogle.com/codejam
   - https://www.techgig.com/challenge
   - https://www.hackerrank.com/contests
   - https://app.codility.com/programmers/challenges/

  C:
   - https://www.learn-c.org/
   - http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/101/
   - http://2016-aalto-c.mooc.fi/en/Module_1/index.html
   - https://www.guru99.com/c-programming-tutorial.html
   - http://c-faq.com/index.html
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Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?

#37
I recently became interested in ML and started with THE course for having a good intro into ML (Coursera's ML by Andrew Ng). That one is offered for free on Coursera and you only pay if you really want to have the certificate once you are done.

That course was so interesting to me and the way Andrew Ng explains - his enthusiasm, his sincerity, the way he talks, his authority on the field mixed with his unbelievable modesty - it is all a mix of things I love in a teacher. He is so inspiring. So I continued.

I am about to finish the Deep Learning Specialization that has 5 courses and my next one will be Tensorflow in Oractice.

I pay for a Coursera subscription (44 EUR/MO) and I am very very happy with the quality of the courses I mentioned above.

When I was studying in depth regarding database development and performance optimization (MSSQL mostly) I really really liked the courses on Pluralsight.

Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?

#38

There are a few courses on Edx (that I think) are worth paying for (under the new scheme, where you can audit courses for free, but lose access to videos, homework etc once the course is over). But, for such courses, edx also requires uploading of a government issued photo id, which I have no intention of doing. If anyone at edx is reading this, I'll be glad to pay for retaining videos beyond the course period, and t…

> edx also requires uploading of a government issued photo id

Wait, they do? That's insane. What do they use the photo ID for and do they keep it?

edit: Decided to check what the official line is.

https://support.edx.org/hc/en-us/articles/207206447-Is-my-ve...

But I can't find anything about why they require it.

Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?

#40

Check out LinkedIn Learning, we've got technical courses at all levels, and a bunch of other topics like creative stuff and professional skills as well. All available as part of a monthly membership that's within your $50/mo budget ($29.99/mo or $19.99/mo depending on duration). Disclaimer: I work there, creating some of the technical content.

Have been looking through the course catalogue just a few days ago (corporate subscription) and everything looks only very basic and selection does not seem large/varied. Really disappointing and definitely not what Lynda used to offer
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