I have tried the free Stanford course but I couldn’t follow through at the time because the pace was too fast for me. Yes it was the same content twice but the teaching style was different. I also supplemented that with nerd ranch and ray wenderlich books. My first big bump was when I took mark prices original course, I mean I was basically relearning at that point. I will give you my experience, I have been to a boot camp paying a gross amount of money for something I could have learned by myself in 2 weeks, however I can’t name and shame because of reasons. I could go on all day, but just steer clear. You don’t hear as much negativity because 1) the students who speak out are bullied 2) the school has a history of astroturfing 3) even if you know the curriculum is garbage, you still need a job and “I just went to an awful bootcamp” doesn’t look good on your resume. I know many students stuck in this situation who can’t afford a lawyer. You need to hire a lawyer to get out of your contract. That means that if you have an issue, the state can’t step in. They’re also operating illegally in California. If you graduate and then spend three years learning to code from a good source, you still owe Lambda School money, even if they provided you zero value. The income share agreement only works in your favor if you totally give up on programming for five years after the program. That they can claim it’s worth $30,000 is bonkers. From there, you will find yourself using those same free resources like everyone else. Still, I have never seen a single course yet that would teach you everything you need - they only cover perhaps 20–25% (possibly even less) of stuff you will need professionally. From here, you just decide how much you want to pay for the convenience. This is the thing that you need to realize first. And it is nothing else but fully logical: where would those authors otherwise get all the infos they put into their courses other than by resorting to open sources? You do not pay for the knowledge itself, you pay for the fact that someone has packed it up for you in a more easy-to-follow way (which is, frankly, also kinda questionable, since those people tend to oversimplify things to the extent that it becomes too primitive to actually make any sense). ![]() The only difference is that the latter are scattered.Ĭourses are just a compilation of these things. There is simply no knowledge that is not available for free on the interwebs via blog posts, stack overflow, reddit comments or the official documentation. In the current world, every, like literally EVERY course or book or what not is a mere convenience.
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