Ask HN: Best paid courses you've taken? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by rotterdamdev » Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 5:54 PM UTC

Talkpython.fm courses. Well worth the money.

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

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Post by 112 » Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 7:25 PM UTC

hello_moto wrote: post #57

112 wrote: post #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-…

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).

I go for video only, maybe that's why my view is skewed. Many of the books are very Udemy-like quality (full of useless fluff), and I generally try to avoid books.

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

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Post by miguendes » Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 8:39 PM UTC

rapfaria wrote: post #19

zwayhowder wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

You can get the professional subscription for 99 USD.

https://services.acm.org/public/qj/profqj/qjprof_control.cfm...

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

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Post by person_of_color » Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 11:07 PM UTC

ArtWomb wrote: post #42

Currently paying C$30 per month to a Quebecois private French video tutor. And it's literally the best thing ever. Unfortuneately I can't recomennd, it's a personal connection. But I would try and find a mentor relationship in sinmilar vein. We chat almost everyday. Enough to praticer mon francais bien tot. Montreal is a hub of AI Also current YC SUS Winter 2020 cohort. YC is magical. Its not just they revolutionized…

you are learning french to study AI in Montreal??

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

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Post by person_of_color » Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 11:07 PM UTC

thorin wrote: post #51

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!

I want to do this. Do you have a legit piano or keyboard?

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

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Post by otras » Thu, Feb 13, 2020, 11:35 PM UTC

BossingAround wrote: post #44

otras wrote: 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.…

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.

Kind of like any book or course like that, I found that the magic wasn't in watching the lectures or reading the book but in deliberately applying some of the strategies to my own learning process.

It was easy to watch and think "OK that makes sense". It was much harder but much more worthwhile to deliberately set aside time for diffuse mode, practice spaced repetition, and quiz myself as I worked through a reading.