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

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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…

    praticer mon francais bien tot
*pratiquer mon français bientôt

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

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I would recommend: - Pluralsight for dev-focused courses - Linux Academy for DevOps-focused courses Also, save up for certs and do some certs. Kubernetes certs (CKA, CKD) seem to be popular and difficult (which is great!), or there were some new-ish NodeJS certs. I find certs really force me to learn something and not just scratch the surface. Just a suggestion. You can use Pluralsight and LinuxAcademy without the in…

I have both and I can't count how many times I need to understand something in some detail and put on a course. I learned Jenkins from LinuxAcademy and Devops principles, went on to build our jenkins server with all the jobs for our builds/automated testing.

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

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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.

My company provides free access and I was left entirely unimpressed.

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

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Go suscribe to linkedin learning, I used to be on it before it was called that, but it's worth every bit of that price. There are basically 10 courses for everything you want to learn (until intermediate level, by which point you probably should be learning by yourself while implementing). It's where I started python.

Alternatively, you can just start implementing stuff in a language of choice, if you have programming background this might be a much better way to learn, not suggested for beginners to the entire concept of programming though.

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

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Do you have a community, where you'd learn together? I wonder if it weren't more efective to i.e. buy books and organize book-club with your colleagues.

Our manager is running one right now, but he usually proposes books about team-work, e.t.c.

Just finished 'Turning ship around', next on the list is probably 'The phoenix project'

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