@rnctr While I think I understand your argument, I feel that it is not mature enough. As programmer we use tools to answer problem and needs of society, companies, clients or even for the sole sake of joy. That means that a lot is directly conditioned by the environment we are working in. Udemy is a platform which propose a lot of courses, mainly aiming at IT people. Which means that a lot of person you may work with in the future, currently or in the past may have used or will use or may using it. As such the kind of course you can find on it will have an impact. As such they have a responsibility to be careful of their content. Ashlee just point out some course that need to be carefully review in accordance to the responsibility they hold. I agree that creating something new is a great critic of what already exist. But I believe that I nor Ashlee and neither you have the power to replace Udemy, while it is possible to motivate the community to pressure a little udemy to make some house keeping.
Just to the nail a little further, you spoke about noise and signal. Our job (and even more yours I believe, since you are a webdev) is surrounded by a lot of noise. Being able to bear it, understand it and grasp how it affects our creations is part of the job.
It's only my point of view and I may be wrong. I will be more than happy to revise any of those points with any compelling pieces that you could produce.
Thanks for reading.
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@rnctr While I think I understand your argument, I feel that it is not mature enough. As programmer we use tools to answer problem and needs of society, companies, clients or even for the sole sake of joy. That means that a lot is directly conditioned by the environment we are working in. Udemy is a platform which propose a lot of courses, mainly aiming at IT people. Which means that a lot of person you may work with in the future, currently or in the past may have used or will use or may using it. As such the kind of course you can find on it will have an impact. As such they have a responsibility to be careful of their content. Ashlee just point out some course that need to be carefully review in accordance to the responsibility they hold. I agree that creating something new is a great critic of what already exist. But I believe that I nor Ashlee and neither you have the power to replace Udemy, while it is possible to motivate the community to pressure a little udemy to make some house keeping.
Just to the nail a little further, you spoke about noise and signal. Our job (and even more yours I believe, since you are a webdev) is surrounded by a lot of noise. Being able to bear it, understand it and grasp how it affects our creations is part of the job.
It's only my point of view and I may be wrong. I will be more than happy to revise any of those points with any compelling pieces that you could produce.
Thanks for reading.