A few people mentioned this in the Udemy comments on your course, and you retorted with snarky replies.
Not a fan of your marketing or your attitude towards customers who were offering legitimate criticism.
Sorry you didn't like the course. I don't recall any snarky replies, but you're right. There were a few people who would have preferred a "code everything from a blank page" approach.
The problem is, how do you code up a 4,000+ line Python application with dozens of files and thousands of lines of HTML/CSS/JS together 1 character at a time?
It would take 100+ hours of video and you would want to punch me in the face after hearing me say "ok now type D I V close bracket" for the 400th time in a row.
A vast majority of people (as seen by the reviews) really enjoy the way it's presented and like seeing it get built up in 12+ stages. It's impossible to make everyone on the internet happy. The best I can do is listen to the feedback of everyone and continue tinkering with future content.
The course does mention you should have a basic understanding of HTML and Python before starting it. It's meant to teach you about Flask.
There's about 60 HTML templates in total. Rather than put the burden of copy/pasting each one onto the student, I decided to break the entire project up into 20 stages (separated by folders and git commits).
You get to see the application at 20 stages of development (to see how it gets built up). It starts with a single app.py file and finishes with the end result.
Basically I go over each line of code, and explain why it's written and what it does.
This style of teaching was a choice I made based on the direct feedback of hundreds of students in previous courses.
Most of them like the fast paced style where I talk over the code. There's also many hours of code challenges built into the course to get your hands dirty. The refund rate is currently less than 1%.