I signed up for pluralsight thinking I would use if for a month and then cancel. I ended up coming back to it whenever I wanted to learn something new, from AWS services to Angular, the content is just more consistent than other services I have used. The introductory Angular course taught by Deborah Kurata was fantastic and her manner of teaching is unlike any I have seen in software, Yay!
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#32After reading all the praise here I signed up but even during redemption of this promotion (i.e. signing up) there was a message up that due to very high demand it may take a while to receive my signup email/redemption code.
I wonder if they will be able to meet the demand? (Might be hard, if they host their own videos.)
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#33A lot of positive comments about Pluralsight here so I thought I'd offer a slightly different perspective:
I had a subscription through work and was excited to jump in and learn as much as I could but I found the talks to be quite information-sparse when compared to say, destoryallsoftware.com [0] videos. As a result, I was apt to watch lessons at 1.5x speed in order to cover ground more quickly, which took a little getting used to.
I looked into why this might be, and discovered (at least back in 2015) that authors are paid in part, per minute of engagement [1], which might account in part for the length of the courses.
Judging from what I've read subsequently, I may just have been unlucky in the courses I selected (I didn't watch any Microsoft ones for example) so if anyone has any recommendations on particularly good courses, I'd be interested to give it a second try.
[0] - https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...
[1] - https://www.troyhunt.com/on-being-pluralsight-author/ (germane text under 'Royalties' heading)
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#34In general quality is much higher than Udemy (or maybe I'm lucky) and authors seems like don't getting paid for video length.
Is that the reason Udemy videos are so lengthy? I rarely buy Udemy courses because of that.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thick Indian accents? There are some fantastic programming tutorials on YouTube but unfortuantly the thick Indian accent makes them all most unwatchable.
How do Indian accents make it unwatchable?
I think the pace is also somewhat fast and lot of umms or /and repetitions of certain world like "right".
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#36In general quality is much higher than Udemy (or maybe I'm lucky) and authors seems like don't getting paid for video length.
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#37I signed up for pluralsight thinking I would use if for a month and then cancel. I ended up coming back to it whenever I wanted to learn something new, from AWS services to Angular, the content is just more consistent than other services I have used. The introductory Angular course taught by Deborah Kurata was fantastic and her manner of teaching is unlike any I have seen in software, Yay!
I was asked to try it out at work as part of evaluating online learning platforms. I've maintained a personal subscription ever since. Must be going on 4 years now.
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#38Only valid for new signups. So it is a trial basically, dressed up as a virus response
That's not really the case as far as I can tell. I had an old account from learning some of their complementary Azure content via Microsoft and I was able to enter my existing email id and activate the 30 day free content on my account.
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#39Re: All Pluralsight videos are free for the month of April
#40A lot of positive comments about Pluralsight here so I thought I'd offer a slightly different perspective: I had a subscription through work and was excited to jump in and learn as much as I could but I found the talks to be quite information-sparse when compared to say, destoryallsoftware.com [0] videos. As a result, I was apt to watch lessons at 1.5x speed in order to cover ground more quickly, which took a little…
I had the same impression. They seem to have mandated structure that has bio, introduction, second introduction, introduction in each part and repeats the same thing over and over. And they make you sleep because they all talk so slow.
It is fine when you know absolutely nothing about the topic, but does not have good intermediate nor advanced topics.
Some (mostly java) videos did not seemed to have audience. For example, video is about setting up server and frontend with spring boot etc. And the video is explaining again and again how to make a class in eclipse. If someone cant make java class, they likely should not be learning spring framework just yet.