Hey, folks! Today i want to ask you about egghead.io. Do you enjoy it?
In December 2019 I purchased 1-year subscription and to be honest, I am disappointed. Quality of videos are good, but content is extremely shallow. Some courses are less informative than 5 mins read of documentation. Also new content appears not o often :(
Is it possible to get partial refund?
May be i missed great courses at this platform. Could you share your favorite courses?
If someone is interested, they do not provide refund after 30 days(
Also, i couldn't find support contacts on web-site, so used google :)
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This is how I feel about 90% of online courses, bootcamps, etc.
You can learn so much on your own, for free, by just Googling things and reading documentation.
I totally agree. I feel like the value comes from someone compiling the information into one place for you. I feel like I lack to time to go out and learn all the things I want to on my own
uh oh, sounds like you're in skillset purgatory. The more "mainstream" tutorial sites arent going to help you much any more. I would try to complete a few projects that are a bit out of your comfort zone. Build what you can, module by module and fill in the blanks with google & youtube searches for help with the specific tasks that you are unfamiliar with. You will likely find more better tutorials with less time wasted on setup/fluff/intro as your searches lead you to new, more specialized sources for information. In other words... Get GRANULAR, my dude!
Have you read their refund policy? if it's 90 days, you're probably getting close to the cutoff for a refund... If it's too late, emailing/chatting with an egghead Rep still couldn't hurt. Even if just for the valuable feedback about your experience.
DISCLAIMER: I'm no career-coach, so take this reply with a grain of salt.
just make projects and stay curious, keep a list of words you've never seen or libraries and frameworks and read all the README's look at all the dependencies and google anything and everything. STAY CURIOUS.
start with projects -> github.com/tuvtran/project-based-l...
Hey. Great link
Personally I recommend the following:
Udemy
Great for beginners. The top courses there are usually very thorough. Courses here are what gave me the skills to get my first job.
My favorite course has to be my initial course to React: The complete React developer by Andrew Mead. That course:
It's my favorite and best course I've ever done hands down.
Many Udemy courses are like that, so I highly recommend Udemy when you want something very thorough.
Frontend masters
Great courses here as well. It roughly picks up where Udemy drops off. If you're an experienced front end developer and just want a fairly quick video course on technology X, this is the course site for you.
Others
Awesome recommendations. Thank you!
In my opinion (as the co-founder of egghead 😅) the problem with egghead is that there is no clear direction or guidance. You are left to your own devices to figure out what to learn when to learn it etc. There is a lot of depth, and there is a lot of material suitable for beginners and experts alike, but how would you even know it?
One of the things that have become more clear to me over the years is that egghead courses provide a lot of interesting building blocks and starters for creating your own developer portfolio projects in a concise way that doesn't give you the "paint by numbers" style of tutorial.
Tutorial work isn't good portfolio work.
I agree that you can spend your time googling and watching free videos on YT or tuck into 60-hour "courses" on udemy for $9.99 (this week only). Good luck!
my email is joel@egghead.io and support@egghead.io is well monitored as well.
Always happy to help.
We recently updated the site and there's a lot of cool things in store.
egghead.io
I found the site confusing. I contacted support and got directed to this page: egghead.io/guides. As a person that wants to learn full-stack, I find it difficult to create my own curses. I feel the page is more oriented to people that actually have knowledge and they just want to increase their skills.
I used to learn on Egghead. Despite it won't provide a complete clear career path but it's still worth subscribing. There is a variety of learning approaches, and teaching methodologies as well, and obviously none of them will be one-size-fits-all . Folks need to be picky to get what is effective to themselves. Time is precious.
@jhooks just want to take this post to say, thank you!
I use Egghead to learn about new things quickly and sometimes refresh old things I've forgotten. I also watch Egghead videos with my team to ensure we're aligned before we execute on a new coding paradigm.
Egghead, the instructors, and its community help me to level up every week, make better products, and help my teammates improve.
Thanks for the focused approach to teaching tech! 🚀
There are too many sites out there that are basically the Wikihow for programming. They'll help you through the first 10% of your learning, but after that you're on your own.
Has anyone had a good experience with a training platform, site, or video series? The better ones are often really narrow in focus.
Maybe you are in an advanced level at your career and Egghead IO might not be worth anymore. I recommend you sending an email to customer support about why you feel disappointed.
Hey C
I'm just curious here, what would you have expected to get?
I am subscribed to the month-to-month plan, and honestly I rarely use it for job-related stuff.
In my own personal opinion, I've found value in their community (community.egghead.io), and I watch videos on random subjects I've never heard of while I'm walking on the threadmill.
But, what would be something that just make you go...
"Oh Mr. Egg, this is good, let me pay another 10 years in advance please."
PS. There is an Instructor on Egghead that it's actually animated, it's like a stop motion squirrel, and you can tell the voice is from a kid. While the course might not be the best, I really appreciated watching a funny video about coding.
Hey, I expected to get good short videos for beginners. I have chosen 1-y. sub. only because of the cybermonday sale. That's my fault not to choose 1-m fisrt. Before purchase, I watched 2 free courses and they were amazing.
For example, I want to learn Gatsby. If you search for Gatsby courses there are only 4 of them. Which are super non-informative.
Yeah, I feel you
I want to learn React Native, and their videos are outdated (even thou they are about 1 year old).
Thanks for such quick reply btw
I am sure you can talk to them about cancelation,
Try joining the community, or even sending an email to Joel.
He is the one sending you emails every other week.
Frontendmasters might have some more indepth content that you are in search of.
Ive run into the same problem as you in the past, there is a lot of fast food content out there. Learning in public has become very popular, and a byproduct of that is shallow content.
Can you give some ideas of content you are in search of?
I used egghead.io to learn gatsby. But there are just 4 courses which are pretty shallow(
I know about frontendmasters. Want to give it a try soon)
that's what i experience a lot...
the more experience i gain, the deeper questions i ask and the fewer answers i get... kinda sad...
Yeah, feel the same way. And that's kinda paradoxal if you think about it, because we're more likely to be able to afford courses as more experienced developers than when we're juniors, but then again there are fewer purchase options LOL :D
What was it that you wanted to learn in particular that you bought a 1-year membership?
Have you raised the concerns with EggHead directly and see what they say about it?
Hey, i am going to contact with support. Hope they meet me halfway.
They auto-renew my subscription for $50 and did not even provide the membership which is now $350 / y. I tried cancelling my auto subscription but there is no way to do it via the website and no way to contact them.
Try to contact them by email, they usually respond pretty quickly.
Thanks got it resolved, looks like their backend has issue associating account when you sign up with github and change it to password sign in and then change the email.
I have to disagree. Ones shouldn't expect to learn everything from any online teaching platforms because it wont work such a way. Let's appreciate what they teach us, new things: languages, concepts, terminologies, workflow etc. Then you spend much more time to dive deeper into those areas doing extreme practice and real-world projects.
At some point, you can't just catalog "how to do everything." As the developer/learner you have to push beyond the helpful tutorials and overviews - and get to the point where you are making something unique. It can feel pretty rough to fight through that urge to look for the answer. But in the end, people want to pay you for for things that they haven't figured out how to do yet. It's the things that there aren't a tutorial for that keeps developers working.
We just checked out some of the courses - and already got hundreds of dollars in education in the first 20 minutes.
Maybe what you are perceiving as "extremely shallow" is that they are very to the point and concise in their delivery. For example, the CSS Grid lessons we just watched were very short - but basically explained everything you could know about grid. That could certainly feel 'simple.' At that point, it's really up to the designer/developer to get out there and put it into practice.
Asking a question like:
Kinda shows that you need a little more work on your research skills. So, maybe that's a red flag - and maybe you're looking for too much hand-holding.
If you are looking for more in-depth real-word situations to work in, consider hiring a tutor or a mentor in your field. Or better yet, find a difficult job.
It's been a few years. Any updates? Did you end up watching a bunch of the course materials? Do you have an answer to your question?
The short specialized courses are actually the reason why i choose egghead over others. As a working dev i just dont have the time or patience to sit through a 9 hour course just to maybe learn 1 or 2 new things.
Currently egghead is not even working on pc. :(