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I’ve personally enjoyed Frontend Masters more than any other platform. If you participate in a live workshop, you’re able to ask the instructor questions. Since it is filmed in front of a live audience, there are a lot of really good questions asked/answered during the course.
Additionally, there are always hands-on activities throughout every course.
I’m not affiliated with FM, I’ve watched 7 or 8 of their courses (2 of those in-person), and they’ve all been extremely valuable.
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I have checked frontend masters and yes, they are awesome, quality of course and filming makes you watch them without switching too much. It's a great platform if you are learning frontend skills, but they don't have much for others, that's the biggest limitation in my opinion.
I absolutely agree with you!
They’ve been doing a lot more backend stuff, and there are a couple cloud and security videos.
Marc, the owner, is great about responding to messages regarding suggestions. Let him know if there are topics you want covered. I’ve been asking him to do more around Cyber Security, so maybe if more people express interest, he’ll have incentive!
That's great to hear, maybe they could add some for JAva developers like on Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and DevOps tooling like Docker, Kubernetes.
I do not want to advertise any company, but Pluralsight, is better in my opinion. While learning by doing sounds great, the courses I saw at Codecademy were pretty basic eg. on Codecademy I found only 'Learn GO', while on Pluralsight, apart from 'Go Fundamentals', you can find 'Building Distributed Applications with Go' or 'Object-oriented Programming with Go' etc. These are much more advanced topics. What is more, I did not find anything for Spring Boot or AWS. For Python I found courses dealing with Best practices or using the Flask framework. The range of courses is bigger, but Pluralsight is much longer on the market.
I did not check the Codecademy's Pro program. Maybe somebody can expand, if it is worth looking into, for somebody that already has some experience?
BTW. while writing this post, I have found out that Pluralsight also has some Hands-on learning. I did not check it, though.
I definitely learn by doing, so I prefer the CodeCademy model, but your point about it being impractical (and likely impossible) for learning while commuting is a very good point.
I do have a bias towards CodeCademy, I must admit, since I started using it in 2013 when I first started to get really serious with coding.
I've not tried Pluralsight too much, though I may try it sometime down the road.
Oh, it's definitely more for beginners. Since it is for beginners, that's also why their learn-by-doing style works so well.
I think that, if you're looking to go into a subject or technology that you're unfamiliar with, CodeCademy is great. I think of it as a spring board though rather than an all-in-one platform.
I've only used Pluralsight and liked the courses I used. Unfortunately my employer has a habit of not renewing in time and wasting months starting from scratch, and I've now had my access cut off "mid course" one too many times (none of Pluralsight's fault, of course). The 33% off offer is certainly appealing.
I'll take a look at CodeCademy, though from the article and comments, it looks like Pluralsight will still be the best fit for me. I do agree that some of their courses are outdated. Maybe it's time for some culling...
Yes, 33% OFF really makes it attractive and their premium plan also have some interactive courses and projects which means best of both world.