So, recently i bought a MERN stack course from a local online course website, but i dont learn it yet because i am busy writing posts on my blog devaradise.com.
This course teach me with study case: building a travel web app using MERN stack.
Then, i have a thought that "why dont i learn it and share it on my blog (and here of course) so i can complete 2 tasks at once, learning for myself and writing for blog". Of course, i won't share the course materials and its resources with you. I know its not ethical.
What i want to share is a documentation of my learning, along with some explanation of what i learn, so you can learn it as well. I also want to make my learning project open source on github and create a demo page.
But still, i dont feel right to the course author because its like i create an alternative content for that course in different format.
What do you think guys?
Do you have any opinion about this?
And are you interested if i create the serial posts of my learning documentation?
Top comments (4)
Literally copying the course and it's contents, can be counted as piracy (is the same thing as buying a movie (in DVD just for the example), you own the movie BUT you can't share it to more people) what you can do, is recreate this tutorial in your way, adding your own flavor and other kind of exercises and other small details. Would be (getting back to the DVD example) like doing an example of you talking about the movie, what you liked, disliked and even the most important parts of it and telling them with your own words. I'm still not that good in programming, but I do chemistry research, and thats the protocol that I use with paid research papers.
Thanks for sharing your opinion, Joey!
I'm sure there's a line somewhere between copying course content and sharing it as your own, and writing about your experience learning something.
I personally wouldn't want to plagiarize someone else's work, and I'd feel worse if it were their source of income.
I think if you were blogging about the concepts you learned and maybe some extra ideas or details that clicked in your mind while learning, that kind of thing could be ok, just as long as you're not really copying everything that someone else worked on into your own personal blog.
I'm curious about what advice others would have. It's not something I've had to think about before. 🤔
Thanks for sharing your opinion. Yeah, i still waiting for other advices as well 😀