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15+ Structured learning alternatives better than a bootcamp

Jasterix on March 08, 2021

Note: Now that I've started working full time, I created a new post schedule that offers more time to write research-heavy posts. The goal is to pu...
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LifeNavigator

Another good alternative is Scrimba. Although you pay a monthly subscription, the video tutorials are all interactive, you can pause and edit the code from the video. The best thing is the discord community: they're very supportive, offer opportunities to talk to recruiters live and do CV/portfolio reviews, weekly challenges and weekly video calls with the Scrimba team (to discuss any problems you're having).

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Tatiana

As a heads up, The Odin Project's curriculum isn't quite like FCC. Students do everything locally and get a dev environment set up as opposed to staying in an online IDE/sandbox (though the curriculum does reference FCC very early on!).

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One of the things I liked the best about Coursera was that most classes had assignments that you submit to an automatic grader that you have to pass to get marked complete. In my experience, this wasn’t available when auditing a course (ie the free part). But to me the Coursera Plus option (like $400 a year for unlimited courses) was well worth it. YMMV

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Jasterix

Good point! I generally use Coursera to audit, but I'll add this to the article

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Let's Code • Edited

My friend! Thanks for the special mention in this article. Now that explains why where new subscribers are coming from. 👍🙏 Thank you very much. Here is my channel if you want to save time finding it on the article - youtube.com/channel/UCFIwa5Eqf4kN1...

I see how vast is your experience by reading this article as I can relate to everything. I tried both Udemy and Pluralsight and love them both. I resort now to free vids on youtube carefully selecting what to watch as some vids are outdated or obsolete.

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Jasterix

Keep the videos coming! I'm glad you found some things to take away from the article :)

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jordanaf808

👏👏👏 So much great information here as a self-taught programmer! I got to check out pluralsight, but Udemy was a great start for me. I especially got to network more and try meetups.

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Jasterix

me too! I have so many unused Udemy courses that helped me realized what I didn't want to learn cough python cough

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Alexandre Amado de Castro

Share your Anki cards!

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Jasterix • Edited

When I've shared them in the past, it hasn't been as helpful. I think part of the learning process is making your own cards, in the same way that writing out your own class notes is useful. But here is the video I first used when trying to figure out how to get the most from the Anki method.

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official_dulin

You forgot StackOverflow and GitHub

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Jasterix

Mind explaining what you mean? I've used a few curated GitHub repos, but not so much Stack Overflow

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official_dulin • Edited

Just ask and answer questions, it's some kind of learning and practice. At the same time, excellent questions and answers will get upvotes, and you will get the reputation. This kind of motivation makes you feel good. Then, repeat a few years.