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Ask HN: What are the good online tech courses that you are willing to pay?

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Cantril seems good but expensive...Pluralsight?

I use Udemy a few times a year. The instructors are terribly under-paid, and the content is typically very high quality but low depth. It's great for picking up a new skill to a useful degree and getting you ready to continue learning more in-depth material elsewhere.

Eg, great for learning a technology or programming language, but often not great for advanced features of that language.

Whenever you can, use one of the instructors coupon codes prior to buying a course, otherwise the instructors only get about 27% of the money [1] (or less if it's on mobile due to app stores), which is why I decided to not make a game-programming course a couple of years ago.

[1] https://support.udemy.com/hc/en-us/articles/229605008-Instru...

+1 for this. I made a short udemy course. It took me about 3 months in my spare time. I have only made $3 so far after 6 months. It is a labor of love to teach.

I've never done a bad Coursera one. Probably luck but still. Currently working through Colorado Boulders' FPGA for Embedded Systems course. I'd also recommend anything by Harvard/MIT on edX. The MIT Advanced Manufacturing micromasters, as well as the finance one, were fantastic.

Why did you learn so diverse knowledge?

I learn loads of stuff just for fun. Its super interesting to learn detailed specifics of topics, especially knowing you're never going to be tested on it.

Mostly that I just find learning new things fulfilling.

I want to design accelerators for Fintech applications at some point soon, hence the FPGA and Finance courses. As for the Manufacturing one, in my eyes I need to understand to full breadth of the industrial chain. Perhaps not as deep as obtaining raw materials (mining/chemistry), but understanding how we turn raw materials into useful tools is something that's important no mater what kind of engineer you are.

Introduction to Computational Thinking https://computationalthinking.mit.edu/

Decision Making Under Uncertainty https://juliaacademy.com/p/decision-making-under-uncertainty...

At this point I am basically an unpaid shill for this company but:

Udacity

While courses from Coursera and EdX are also excellent, Udacity consistently makes me work hard and actually expend the energy to understand non-trivial tech.

Execute Program

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32332259

How is this compare to Frontend Masters?

https://www.oreilly.com/ learning seems to be good and diverse, although the price are a bit steep where I'm from currency conversion-wise.

Ardan Labs: Ultimate Go

I worked for 3 years as a Go developer before doing this course and I still learned so much from it. Thank you Bill Kennedy, you're a wonderful instructor!

Is this the same ultimate go course that is offered on O'Reilly?

https://learning.oreilly.com/videos/ultimate-go-programming/...

Hard to tell. I pay for O'Reilly for myself since it covers a lot of my needs (nearly all tech books across publishers, conferences, and courses/videos across some publishers (manning, packt, wiley)).

$700 is a steep price to pay for a single go course.

Probably, here is the link to the full bundle https://www.ardanlabs.com/training/ultimate-go/#tabpanel

and this was the course I was talking about https://www.ardanlabs.com/training/ultimate-go/advanced-conc...

Indeed $700 is a steep price(I live in Eastern Europe so it looks even steeper), but for me it worth it as it helped me a lot in interviews which landed me nice paying jobs(by my standards). I don't know how long it would have taken me to learn all those concepts by myself. The value of a good course is that it condenses the time you need to learn something and this course did the job.

There is also Ultimate Go notebook which is just $10[1], the notes from this course. If the course is too expensive I would go with that.

[1] https://www.ardanlabs.com/ultimate-go-notebook/

Yes it’s the same course but the course changes and it’s from a few years ago. I’ve explored it through oreilly and with a live workshop and bill Kennedy is amazing in person. High recommend both.

Any of David Bezley courses [1]

[1] https://www.dabeaz.com/courses.html

I'm taking one of Meta's certification courses on Coursera right now.

Which one if u don't mind sharing? I also signed up for coursera and looking for good ones to do.

None, excluding certifications (AWS, Google, etc.)

None. I think that online tech courses are outdated quickly so I prefer to learn by coding every day

You should learn when not to code.

So sayeth we graybeards. But in all seriousness, this is so spot on. After all, the only bug-free code is that which is not written

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