Piano lesson, for £25 pounds for 1-1.5hrs some stoner dude comes over to my house usually once a week. He's a really good teacher and piano player!
Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?
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Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?
#52I think O'reilly has one of the biggest catalogs for that budget: https://learning.oreilly.com/signup/ You have access to hundreds of good quality books, learning courses, conferences, etc. Now, I've seen that for the best courses fos something in particular, you'll find material from different sites, and buy them individually can get much more expensive. I've seen good courses for specific topics from Linkedin learn…
I utilize this as well, have had a membership for almost a decade now. Great resource!
Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?
#53I 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.…
Highly unpopular opinion, I know, but I didn't find learning how to learn very useful. It might as well have been a 30-minute video, and it wouldn't lose much of its content. A lot of the content seems to be rather inspirational than educational.
I actually felt the same. I forced myself to take it after seeing the hype, and it really fell flat for me.
Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?
#54Shameless plug (the ongoing content project in my profile): a tenner gets you a kindle booklet with a summary of the most recent academic and industrial trends for one of a number of general or applied subjects in the 2020s, each booklet also with an executive summary to get up to date in half an hour plus 105 free internet references, explicitly linked for your own consultation, in the case you want to go deeper.
Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?
#55OSU series of permaculture courses will change your view of the world. start with the free intro https://open.oregonstate.edu/courses/permaculture/
Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?
#56Taken few courses related to AWS on AcloudGuru and Udemy.
For a crash course like ML, Photography, JS etc; Udemy is a great bargain for $9.99
Tried pluralsight couple of years ago. I found content to be bit old and not updated reqularly.
I have bookmarked below url containing list of courses offered by different universities worldwide.
https://qz.com/1437623/600-free-online-courses-you-can-take-...
Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?
#57If 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-…
How do you like Pactkpub? Seems like it's a hit and miss situation. Some contents are good, some are not so good. They churn a lot of books though and some of them are niche (which is good).
Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?
#58Data Structures and Algorithms from UCSD on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/specializations/data-structures-alg...
Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?
#59I took "Become a Product Manager" ( https://www.udemy.com/course/become-a-product-manager-learn-... ) and was quite happy with it. The title is a bit tacky - it is not instantly going to turn you into a product manager. But it is a nice overview of the field. I paid about 10 bucks during one of the countless sales. Never pay the full price at Udemy. Their pricing policy is ridiculous. I feel like you only have to wai…
I paid about 10 bucks during one of the countless sales. Never pay the full price at Udemy. Their pricing policy is ridiculous. I feel like you only have to wait a few days for the next 90%-off-discount to come along. I counted three times during the past few weeks.
Second this. If you want to take a Udemy course and the listed price is more than about $12.00, just wait. It'll be on sale for $9.99, $10.99, $11.99 or something like that, within a couple of weeks. They're almost always running various sales and promotions... just be patient.
Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?
#60Bang-for-buck-wise it's an O'Reilly subscription hands down. https://learning.oreilly.com/signup/
You can save a few $$ by signing up for ACM instead. https://learning.acm.org/e-learning/oreilly
If I'm understanding this correctly, that's a pretty big savings: $500/yr versus $198/yr.
Can anyone confirm this?