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Re: Advice to read before buying a course from Udemy

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post #13

I thought this was going to touch on how many Udemy courses are stolen.

Are there a lot? Like people copying slides or such?

Not sure that all courses from youtube are being stolen.

I rather think that they when they find topical content on youtube they approach the content creator to put the course on their site as well.

Udemy's quality is mostly poor, but it's usually glaringly obvious when a course is rubbish. One or two courses are actually really good.

Re: Advice to read before buying a course from Udemy

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Udemy is great for new or niche content. If you want to learn data science or machine learning or python, go with Udacity, Coursera or EdX. But if you want to learn VueJS, you have to use Udemy. Best part is that the $1 million course was 90% off, so I only had to pay $100,000 for it! What a saving!

The VueJS 2 course[0] is 95% off right now, marked down to $10 from $190. I wonder if it displays that for everyone.

I'm sorry, Udemy, but that's a suspiciously huge discount.

[0]: https://www.udemy.com/vuejs-2-the-complete-guide/

Re: Advice to read before buying a course from Udemy

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post #42

Udemy is great for new or niche content. If you want to learn data science or machine learning or python, go with Udacity, Coursera or EdX. But if you want to learn VueJS, you have to use Udemy. Best part is that the $1 million course was 90% off, so I only had to pay $100,000 for it! What a saving!

The VueJS 2 course[0] is 95% off right now, marked down to $10 from $190. I wonder if it displays that for everyone. I'm sorry, Udemy, but that's a suspiciously huge discount. [0]: https://www.udemy.com/vuejs-2-the-complete-guide/

Likely the same thing that very expensive private universities do with "low income" students. They just have a massive profit margin and can cut it back as needed

Re: Advice to read before buying a course from Udemy

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post #42

Udemy is great for new or niche content. If you want to learn data science or machine learning or python, go with Udacity, Coursera or EdX. But if you want to learn VueJS, you have to use Udemy. Best part is that the $1 million course was 90% off, so I only had to pay $100,000 for it! What a saving!

The VueJS 2 course[0] is 95% off right now, marked down to $10 from $190. I wonder if it displays that for everyone. I'm sorry, Udemy, but that's a suspiciously huge discount. [0]: https://www.udemy.com/vuejs-2-the-complete-guide/

I have checked a couple of courses over the last months and they always offer 90% discount and only for a couple of days. But when the time expires, the discount gets automatically extended. So these 190$ are just a fiction

Re: Advice to read before buying a course from Udemy

#46
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a common grammatical mistake that I see made by folks from certain countries. Usually, it's using an incorrectly before a word that starts with the letter u but where the u has a consonant /y/ sound.

/j/ is the IPA for the English consonant "y" sound, /y/ is a vowel.

Sorry, I wasn't intending on using IPA. I've been teaching my kids using Logic of English, which is how that sound is represented.

Re: Advice to read before buying a course from Udemy

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post #2

I don't think I've ever seen a udemy course NOT on sale.

This happens due to advertisment cost. Udemy share their profit to ios and adroid platforms this why price higher. To get any course with discout use coupon site: http://peakget.com/store/udemy/
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