I felt cheated by the Nanodegrees. They were taught by embodiments of the fake-it-till-you-make-it philosophy.

At least, the React one was. When I asked questions about the errors I was getting, Richard Kalehoff —- the literal face of the course! — answered and clearly did not know what was going on. He told me things that flatly contradicted the documentation and couldn’t do much more than to say “try copying the example”.

To my shame, I paid $800 to learn from people who weren’t much farther ahead on the material, and in some aspects were behind me.

Edit: earlier comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18596450#18601298

Link to the course where Kalehoff’s face is on the landing page: https://www.udacity.com/course/react-nanodegree--nd019