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Maciej Cieslik

Good course should definitely have good exercises - I mean exercises that require thinking. Good course also need gradation with example apps - starting from simple stuff teaching only basics, than gradually more complex problems. Finally every good course should, in the end, have big complex app which contains most (if not all) of important problems from previous lessons and some exercises extended beyond course, just to teach looking for solutions that are not so obvious to find (for example looking in docs, searching new packages in npm, actually ask for help on forum/discord/slack/Stack Overflow, etc).

Course without exercises is worth nothing. Brainless course is also worth nothing. I personally very like big, complex courses "from zero, to hero" but at least with 40h+ lessons and exercises. This - if good - teaches most basics, some more complex stuff and teaches where to look after for solutions by myself.