50 Projects In 50 Days — HTML, CSS & JavaScript
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That's unfortunate :(
As you finished 30 projects, looks like you're pretty good at applying concepts even if the instructor is not very helpful.
Hope you will something better next
Yes, it was a disappointment because the content of the course is quite interesting, especially for beginners.
Thank you so much for reading and commenting. I really appreciated it! :D
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You are correct. Brad is a fast instructor. I've watched a ton of his YouTube content and taken two Udemy courses he's put together.
The pace typically doesn't bother me though, because I don't mind skipping back 5 seconds or pausing.
Personally, I enjoyed this course for the most part. I started learning web development with Angular. I got to a point that I knew my basic JavaScript was missing something, but wasn't sure what. This course filled in the blanks for me.
I don't think it would be a good course for people who need to learn the fundamentals, like variables, arrays and loops...but I thought it was suitable for people wanting to just practices with a bunch of projects.
I'm surprised by your take, but I suppose the value you get will depend on your learning style and what you are hoping to get from the course.
I'd be interested to know if there is another course you've taken that you thought was more well executed?
Hello Jon! Thank you for your comment.
I also think the course is quite good because there are all kinds of projects with a lot of practical uses.
I did not mind he did not explain how forEach or filter works because I knew that was not part of the course descriptions. But in my case, at the time I took the course I used to code along with the instructor, and even though I had to pause a lot because I was way slower than then with Brad was impossible to keep track, that is why it was a disappointment to me. I really felt, that he just recorded the course only to make some money and would not care whether students learn from it or not.
I watched some of his tutorials after that and realized that is his teaching style.
I do I think he is a good teacher for a lot of people and has contributed immensely to the dev community.
But still, I would not watch any of his tutorials or courses if I deeply want to learn about something.
I had taken a couple of Maximilian Schwarzmüller's courses, which I enjoy a lot. They are all very well organized.
And definitely, my favorite courses are the ones created by John Smilga. They are also really well organized, he covers all important topics with great explanations and examples, and later he applies all those bits into very cool projects.
I m currently taking is Node.js course and I would not be happier with it.
I am curious, where did you learn Angular, do you have any good courses to recommend?
I just completed Maximilian Schwarzmüller's SQL course. He is very thorough. That said, I don't know if it was the subject matter, or something else, but I had a very difficult time maintaining focus and interest. I pushed through because I wanted to finish, but it was a struggle. I will say, my experience didn't stop me from buying another course of his.
I learned Angular through a book titled Getting MEAN (second edition). It teaches Node, Express JS, Angular and MongoDB. A few notes I would share before you pick it up. First, it's a bit out of date. There are several bits of code that are deprecated, particularly surrounding the database connection. Secondly, the code through out the boo is riddled with errors. I don't know if that's because they weren't as thorough when migrating code from the first edition of the book, if it was poor writing from the authors, or poor editing from the publisher, but I banged my head on the wall in nearly every chapter. Only to find that the code in the git repository had been updated. The book did explain the content decently, but the code errors took away from that significantly.
I don't know if there are better sources to learn Angular. If there are, I would seek them out. Also, Angular doesn't seem to be as popular these days, so I'd look into learning React unless you have a reason to learn Angular.
Yes totally agree with your opinion about Maximilian. I had experienced the same thing throughout some of his courses.
About the book, I can not imagine how hard it could be to learn with materials out of date.
In my case, I don't have any big reason for learning Angular, but after I learned Vue and React I found them quite similar and not that hard to learn, especially after React, so a few months ago I took a look at Svelte and build a couple of small things, just know how it works.
So that is the main reason for my interest in Angular.
I looked at your portfolio, it looks really cool and organized with very interesting projects.
I've thought about learning Svelte, because I've heard the developer experience (DX) is quite good. I think I need to do an original project with React before playing with something that isn't as likely to land me a job.
I can't say I have much to compare Angular to other than the e-commerce React course I took on Udemy (by Brad Traversy). Some benefits I do like about Angular:
Angular does have a steep learning curve and it can be overkill. It has everything out of the box, but you need to know which components you need. It's easy to forget to import something.
Recently I've been more focused on projects that aren't full stack, just to sharpen my front end skills and have more to add to my portfolio. I've been making simple static single page projects. Instead of using a framework, I've been using Webpack so that I can still use NPM packages, have hot reloads during development, it will compile my SCSS automatically, and it enables you to export JavaScript modules just like I am accustom to with frameworks.
I wouldn't use it for a full stack project, but it's nice when I just want to throw a static page together.
My interest in Angular also relay in the fact that typescript is the default language and about svelte, it only takes you a few hours to catch up on the most important bits and from then you can already start building something, It is really simple especially if you had used Vue before since there are quite similar.
The last part sounds great, I have been feeling that I need to learn how to configure and use Webpack on my own.
I will be looking forward to seeing your next React project!
I've got good news and bad news.
Good news: I learned how to use webpack on YouTube.
Bad news: It was Brad Traversy :P
I just saw he was two tutorials about webpack and there are less than one hour each, so I may as well watch at least one of them.
I am sure I will enjoy it and I will not feel like writing a bad review.
Let see!