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One thing that's worth mentioning is Udemy is a completely different type of company based on you being a watcher of courses vs being an instructor on Udemy. I was an instructor there for 5+ years (with ~30k enrollments) and in my entire professional career I've never met a worse company in terms of how corrupt they are and how little they actually care about instructors unless you happen to be one of the few instruc…
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I checked out your application. Looks cool. Are you planning to add other languages interactive environments as well?
Hey Siddarth! Yes I have support for C, Elixir, Java, Python, Ruby, and Rust at the moment. I'm going to be adding more courses and languages over the next few weeks! If you'd like to follow along with the progress checkout https://twitter.com/codeamigo_dev
EDIT: Actually it probably supports a variety languages
One thing that's worth mentioning is Udemy is a completely different type of company based on you being a watcher of courses vs being an instructor on Udemy. I was an instructor there for 5+ years (with ~30k enrollments) and in my entire professional career I've never met a worse company in terms of how corrupt they are and how little they actually care about instructors unless you happen to be one of the few instruc…
> I've never met a worse company in terms of how corrupt they are and how little they actually care about instructors Can you explain how? The general world of being a content creator for someone else's platform is ... well the bar is pretty low. You're pretty much on your own everywhere aren't you? Most of these sites are ultra top heavy with the top creators also generating the most revenue.
You won't find this anywhere else, on any system that relies on networks. Pareto being what it is consolidation toward the top is all but a certainty.
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Hey Siddarth! Yes I have support for C, Elixir, Java, Python, Ruby, and Rust at the moment. I'm going to be adding more courses and languages over the next few weeks! If you'd like to follow along with the progress checkout https://twitter.com/codeamigo_dev
If you're ever looking to support TypeScript eventually, the Monaco editor ( https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor ) is your place to go. This is the same codebase that powers VS Code, yet is browser compatible and can come with all the Intellisense you need! EDIT: Actually it probably supports a variety languages
Udemy (and Amazon) do not create value by developing top-notch back-end applications for instructors and sellers. Nor do they add value by having the best process for behind the scenes participants. Their value comes from what consumers see and experience.
Yes, Udemy has a bunch of junk courses. I probably bought a few hundred courses from them. I am very careful about watching as much of the free material as possible before making a decision. Once you've seen and experienced a few courses you get a sense of how to evaluate quality.
You can also do research on the instructors outside of Udemy. For example, a while ago I decided to take Robert Feranec's Altium Designer course on Udemy. I wanted a refresher. I use the software daily but I do so many things I haven't really kept up with the latest and greatest.
https://home.fedevel.com/other/about-robert
Robert's course is top notch. I really enjoyed it. I will likely take some of his advanced classes off-platform.
I've also had my kids go through various courses on Udemy. From software development to handwriting, math, languages and using GIMP. All great courses. No complaints whatsoever.
One of my kids is currently going through the excellent "100 Days of Code - The Complete Python Pro Bootcamp for 2021" from App Brewery. It is amazing to see just how engaged she is.
One of my other kids is currently going through MIT's 6.00.1x on EdX while simultaneously using the "100 days of Code" course on Udemy to shore-up holes in his Python knowledge. He is doing great.
From there I plan to move them to higher level courses on either (or both) EdX and Coursera. These kids are going to finish high school with actual marketable skills that will lead to nice jobs during college (rather than the useless shit they are being fed in school...don't get me started). If it was possible to take these courses for credit they could graduate high school and obtain a BS in CS within a year. Sadly the only path I have been able to identify has a starting age requirement of 17, which I think is ridiculous. They are a couple of years younger than that and can already code circles around most first and second year university CS students. Age is irrelevant.
Anyhow, I guess I am saying that there's a lot of good on the platform for learners. You just have to be careful about evaluating courses and instructors.
Amazing to think that 10 years ago that there were two new format Stanford open access courses that launched at the same time: AI Class (Peter Norvig, Sebastian Thrun) and ML Class (Andrew Ng). Thrun and Ng went on to launch Udemy and Coursera, respectively.
Sebastian Thrun founded Udacity. Udemy was founded by other people.
One thing that's worth mentioning is Udemy is a completely different type of company based on you being a watcher of courses vs being an instructor on Udemy. I was an instructor there for 5+ years (with ~30k enrollments) and in my entire professional career I've never met a worse company in terms of how corrupt they are and how little they actually care about instructors unless you happen to be one of the few instruc…
This is such a good point, and impossible to overstate. I decided about a year ago I wanted to create my own course ( https://css-for-js.dev/ ). After exploring the options and hearing about the Udemy horror stories, I decided to build my own platform. It's gone better than I ever could have hoped, and it's set me up well for a lucrative career I'm passionate about. You don't have to create your own platform from scr…
One thing that's worth mentioning is Udemy is a completely different type of company based on you being a watcher of courses vs being an instructor on Udemy. I was an instructor there for 5+ years (with ~30k enrollments) and in my entire professional career I've never met a worse company in terms of how corrupt they are and how little they actually care about instructors unless you happen to be one of the few instruc…
My course is priced at $54.99 and I've made $44,000 from the course in total. So that comes to about $3.50 per student.
To be fair a good chunk of the money I make is from their Udemy for Business program.
The results aren't the best, but I do appreciate being able to make money with zero effort in marketing on my end.
That being said, I'm working on a new course. This time I'm building out my own platform - which will actually be a 100x better experience for students, and I'll be sure to do my own marketing this time round.
One thing I particularly appreciate from Udemy compared to other platforms is that there are many great (and not so great) courses covering obscure topics that are not available in Coursera, Edx, etc.
Like what?
Unlike the reviews I actually thought it was good and insightful, coming from Linux and macOS.
Same for this malware development course on Windows https://www.udemy.com/course/ehf-maldev-in-windows/#instruct...
This car maintenance one was also very useful
Car Maintenance Anyone Can Do https://www.udemy.com/course/car-maintenance-anyone-can-do/
Just a few examples.