Bang-for-buck-wise it's an O'Reilly subscription hands down.
Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?
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#12I'd say you don't have to spend any money for some of the best classes, but it matters what you're interested in / specialty. Check out OSSU on GitHub for a lot of really good free courses. Only time I'd recommend spending money is if there a specific course within a specialization
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#13pluralsight has lots of stuff
I second pluralsight for that budget. I've been a customer for a few years, and I find that I've always gotten the value out of it every year. Some months I won't touch it, other months I'll do course after course integrating the learnings into a side-project. Variety is huge.
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#14Depends on what your interests are. If I had exactly $50.00 /month to spend on online education, I'd consider spending it on either a Coursera subscription or a Linux Academy subscription. The latter is especially valuable if you're interested more in "infrastructure" kind of stuff, and IT industry certifications around things like Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, AWS, GCP, Azure, etc. The former includes more of what you…
I self fund Linux Academy because the hands on labs make it much more useful than many of the other options. While I do have my own home lab and cloud accounts the LA setup makes it easy to pickup a course when I'm on the road with just my work laptop.
I had pluralsight too but stopped when I realised I'd watched lots of videos but not done many labs.
Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?
#15Bang-for-buck-wise it's an O'Reilly subscription hands down. https://learning.oreilly.com/signup/
You can save a few $$ by signing up for ACM instead.
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#16Penetration Testing With Kali Linux by OffSec.com. Along with 90 days of lab.
Relatively cheap and a really deep, wide-ranging curriculum. And fun, to boot.
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#17https://learn.tylermcginnis.com/ for JavaScript. Pure gold. :)
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#18Splunk University. Happens once a year in Oct.
In 3 days you learn to build scalable business applications to work with any data. Gold.
And tons more.
Re: Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken?
#19Bang-for-buck-wise it's an O'Reilly subscription hands down. https://learning.oreilly.com/signup/
You can save a few $$ by signing up for ACM instead. https://learning.acm.org/e-learning/oreilly
Any subscription will do or do I have to get one with the "digital library"? I think it's $198
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#20Check 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.