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Yaser Al-Najjar • Edited

Forget about Coursera, edX... etc, they just bring (sh**y university system) into the (lovely online self-learning world).

I have tried EVERY SINGLE e-learning out there (I seriously tried a list of about 50 websites one by one)... I would say Pluralsight is the best.

And on some specific topics, you gotta find the best instructor for each topic, examples:

  1. C# & ASP (basics, intermediate, advanced), Scott Allen Pluralsight: app.pluralsight.com/profile/author...

  2. Design Patterns in C#, Dimitri udemy: udemy.com/design-patterns-csharp-d...

  3. Python & Django, Kenneth Love: teamtreehouse.com/tracks/exploring...

That being said, what's the topic you're looking for?

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Garwin Pryce

Yeah, I think if you can find it what you need on Pluralsight, it has a greater chance of being good quality.

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Mahesh K

I am mostly looking at Javascript and Data science.

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Yaser Al-Najjar

I don't know what you wanna do with JS, is it frontend dev? cuz I have never heard that JS and Data Science go together, I heard about R & Python going with DS (I don't know a lot about DS).

This ES6 course is really good:

app.pluralsight.com/library/course...

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Nick Karnik

JS is been used for DS lately. I would recommend getting up-to-speed with it. However, it is always nice to have Python as your backup language for DS/ML.

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Yaser Al-Najjar

Ah... js is eating the world man, with no typing :D

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Nick Karnik

The only downside is that you have to know your way around CPU intensive tasks. The biggest issue with JS is that the Math engine is not as powerful/accurate on floating-point operations.