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It is fine when you know absolutely nothing about the topic, but does not have good intermediate nor advanced topics.

Some (mostly java) videos did not seemed to have audience. For example, video is about setting up server and frontend with spring boot etc. And the video is explaining again and again how to make a class in eclipse. If someone cant make java class, they likely should not be learning spring framework just yet.

When I used it to learn .net mvc, the course was pretty well produced and structured.

Also, if I remember correctly, Troy Hunt had a web security course on the site.

And I'm not sure how much CS content they have, the stuff I've seen tends to be more "how to use language/tool x"

So I usually work on backend stuff (Linux) but some time ago I was tasked with writing an app with a complex UI in C#/.NET, which I had no prior experience with. I tried reading books but it was slow-going, because the Visual Studio environment is just that: visual, with lots of clicking on the screen.

I randomly stumbled upon Pluralsight's C# course (a limited Pluralsight subscription is bundled with every MSDN subscription): it was amazing. Screencasts made so much more sense than PDFs for something like Visual Studio. I found myself productive in C#/Visual Studio in just 2 weeks (caveat: I have a 15 yr programming background, just not in C#), and it took me another 2 weeks to finish the product. I breezed through courses in ASP.NET Core as well, and I'm now productive in that environment too. (As a Python veteran, I have to grudgingly confess that developing webapps in a statically typed language is so much more convenient and so much less error prone than in a dynamic one. Flask is a mess... a workable mess, but a mess nonetheless)

I don't know how polished their non-Microsoft materials are, but almost any course I've encountered on Microsoft-related technologies have been excellent. I'd especially recommend them to folks who don't really care to work with Microsoft tech (though C# is a truly pleasant language to work with -- designed by Anders Hejlsberg of Turbo Pascal and Delphi fame), but find themselves having to -- these courses will get you productive in no time. They're like a compressed signal to the brain.

I bootstrapped my C# knowledge into a programming career entirely off of Scott Allen's MVC 3 videos back in 2011/2012. He took the time to not just follow the project templates, but to start from empty projects and explain step by step what MVC's plumbing was doing. It was hugely eye opening and really removed a lot of the man-behind-the-curtain feeling of how that framework functions.

John Papa's videos also helped me understand a few new design patterns I'd never used, such as Unit Of Work and repositories. Even if you don't use those things, it's awesome to be able to recognize the pattern with others use them.

They went through a few expansion phases and merged / bought a couple other training companies into them, and their content really took off after that.

Now they have some great automated assessment programs that help focus your learning onto different tracks[1].

I haven't used their product in a couple years now as I've shifted into management and my organization has a lot of internal management training courses that will keep me busy for years. Still though, Pluralsight is where I go back to when I want to pick up a new specialist skill.

0: https://www.pluralsight.com/teach

1: https://www.pluralsight.com/product/skills

According to my email I signed up for a free trial a couple years ago, then closed my account when the trial ended. I don't recall the exact course(s) I tried, but in general they seemed like higher quality than the typical distance learning factories.

I know Nigel Poulton has some courses there on Kubernetes and Docker. Based on his books, and the audio adaptations of them, I expect his Pluralsight courses to be of high quality.

This is my experience for their web content, nothing too in-depth really.

Their .Net content, Angular content and Android content is of a very high quality. I wasn't so impressed with the Java content - but that might be more down to the subject matter. I'd probably have hated anything covering Webforms or WCF or other such monsters ;)

Yes, they vet the content. Authors themselves are vetted before becoming accepted and all content is reviewed for accuracy and quality.

For CS, we have a ton of great content. One of my favorites in that category is Algorithms and Data Structures Part 1/2. It's very thorough and easy to understand. There are also some CS courses that are geared towards specific languages like C++, F#, Python etc.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ftlv6d/psa_all...