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The only "pros" of udemy is pricing. Unless you are a heavy user in which case it might be more expensive eg doing more than 60 courses per year.
Udemy has pretty much zero baseline for authors. Anyone can sell a course, whatever that means, even if the course is to just read a textbook aloud.
But Pluralsight has many serious instructors and I think it deserves the price tag.
FYI I am not a pluralsight customer, but used to be. I am using Oreilly learning and I am super happy.
Completely agree and that's why familiarity with Udemy is even more important. As I said, if you choose the right instructors and right courses, you will often get the best deals on Udemy. Some of my favorite instructors on Udemy include Maximillian, Jose Portilla, Stephen Grider, Angela Yu, Tim Buchalaka, Ranga, John, Kirill Eremenko and Cloud guru (Ryan). Their courses are much more valuable than price you pay.
Totally agree with you approach. I would add Stephane Marek as well.
udemy.com/user/stephane-maarek/
Well said and well done. I use Pluralsight as it is offered as a training option by my corporation. In my personal learning though, I have a rather extensive Udemy library built up. Your experience with Udemy reflects someone who takes the time to research a class or topic before making a purchase. That is something that I feel a lot of the Udemy detractors have failed at, and that is what makes them detractors.
Thanks Fred, I agree you need to do some research before enrolling on any course on Udemy to get the best out of the platform, but its pricing is best and most affordable.
I've seen this brought up repeatedly regarding Udemy. I feel a lot of people don't give it a fair shake because of exactly that reason. Like you said, it's a marketplace. You need to look for classes that are well reviewed as well as recently updated with an engaged instructor. It's easy to "find gold in them thar hills", but it certainly will never just fall in your lap.
I love Udemy prices :D
Indeed, they really make education affordable and for everyone.
I don't understand why Udemy is even recommend or used by any serious author, because they are a platform where is very easy to publish stolen courses, and they don't do any effort to solve the issue.
If you are famous enough, you may get their attention and your pirated course will be removed, otherwise you will have a bad time for them to remove your stolen content.
It was news in 2015, at BBC, and still continue in the present.
I really recommend for nay Developer to not buy anything from Udemy, because you are supporting an unethical company.
That's a great comparison. Thanks for sharing this!
Thanks for pointing out, I'll update them shortly.