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Smashing Magazine
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Well-rounded resource for designers
Smashing Magazine not only provides plenty of news on the latest UX and UI design trends, but also features a job board and active community.
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Busy website layout
The layout of the Smashing Magazine website is overly crowded, making it difficult to navigate and distracting to read blog posts on.
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Frequently updated, useful blog posts
In general, a new blog post is published every 1-3 days that's full of value for the reader.
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Current, broad, cutting-edge stuff
Always something useful.
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A List Apart
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High quality writing
A List Apart has a difficult review process for their articles that insures well written, helpful articles from established industry professionals.
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Not as relevant anymore
In recent years, the site's content has shifted from talking about real-world examples, nuances and discussions about low-level ideas to generalizations and overall, commonly accepted theories about web design.
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Topics cover a wide range
A List Apart covers a range of topics beneficial to those learning web design, with some topics having 100's of posts that cover the category. Categories include Process, Content, Industry and more.
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Hackdesign
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Weekly lessons on variety of design-related topics
New lessons are released on a weekly basis. They include anything from tutorials, tips, to articles.
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Established, well-known teachers
The teachers at Hackdesign have worked on projects such as Fitbit, Pinterest and Zendesk.
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Targeted towards developers
Developers are not known for their fantastic design abilities. Hackdesign is aimed at developers who are curious about the design aspect of the field.
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Hands on from the start
Hackdesign courses have the user working on projects right from the beginning, keeping the lessons fun and interactive.
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Awwwards
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Good for identifying web trends
Awwwards tends to keep up with the latest trends and give out awards based on trending ideas and concepts.
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Little difference between winning entries
Awwwards is very opinionated what constitutes a good design. So all sites that differ from the intended vision don't get highlighted.
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Expert judges and the evaluation process
The expert judges and the evaluation process makes Awwards a great place to go to find the very best in design.
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freeCodeCamp
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Completely free
Free for anyone who wants to take the camp.
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No longer offers opportunity to build projects one-on-one with nonprofits
There are no nonprofits to help upon completing the program.
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Open source
Due to freeCodeCamp being open source, you are able to contribute to the program that helped teach you how to code in the first place. It's a great way to give back and gain experience.
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Learning material is not in-depth
The teaching content provided by freeCodeCamp tends to act more as an introduction than a solid learning resource. Unless you already have some prior experience, you won't have enough knowledge to get through the coding challenges and development projects without using outside learning resources to fill in the gaps.
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Self-paced
There is no set schedule with freeCodeCamp. You can work through the program as fast or as slow as you want.
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Massive time waste
Content mainly focuses on trivial concepts and is very sparse in those few areas that inch beyond 'complete beginner'.
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Browser-based
All courses used by freeCodeCamp are done in the browser, rather than students having to set up their own environment. This makes it much easier for beginners to get started.
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Is an email list generator
Early focus isn't on programming. It is on signing up for all of FreeCodeCamp's social media and getting looped into their newsletters. The content is trivial. It is all just a massive marketing scheme to get email addresses of aspiring programmers to affiliate sell to by pushing novice developers to blog posts containing affiliate links. That is until they sell to a 3rd party. Read their disclaimer. Whoever buys them out gets all their user data, email lists, etc.
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Actively developed
They are frequently updating courses and adding new material.
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No offline version
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Welcoming, active community
freeCodeCamp strongly encourages interacting with other learners and experienced programmers. They provide chatrooms which are always active and full of members happy to answer any questions you may have. Pair programming (programming with another user) is encouraged as a great way to work through some of their coding challenges. There are also meetup groups where you can code in person with other freeCodeCamp students.
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Excessive focus on the basics
This platform focuses too much on the basics.
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Six certificates available
There are currently six certificates available that you can get once you've completed all the projects: Responsive Web Design Certification Javascript Algorithms And Data Structures Certification Front End Libraries Certification Data Visualization Certification Apis And Microservices Certification Information Security And Quality Assurance Certification
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Gain real world experience while helping nonprofits
Once you've completed all the courses and practice levels on freeCodeCamp, you are able to participate with other learners on developing software for non-profits. It's an amazing way to gain experience and build your portfolio as a developer, while helping out a non-profit organization.
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Full stack certificate
There is a cool Full stack certificate
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Udemy
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Wide range of courses
If one course doesn't meet your needs, there is a sea of other courses to choose from.
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Quality varies
The quality control for the content offered is fairly limited. As there are so many different instructors offering courses on Udemy, many of which lack formal training and teaching experience since anyone can be a teacher on Udemy, the quality varies quite a bit between the different courses.
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Value for money
A +10 hour high quality course for under $20 is great value.
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Most courses are expensive
While Udemy does offer free courses, most of them are around $100.
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Regular discounts
Often run discounts 50 - 90% off resulting in sub $20 courses.
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Difficult to take multiple (10+) courses at the same time
The system becomes messy and hard to follow if you plan on using the site to learn more than a handful of things at once.
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Offers intermediate and advanced courses
Udemy offers plenty of courses for beginner programmers, but also has a large variety of more advanced courses to choose from.
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Some courses are free
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Courses available in over 80 languages
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Friendly community
Both on site and on various social networks Udemy aims to create a community of friendly people that can help each other out.
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Quality of top courses
The quality of top courses (+4.0 rating & high enrollment) is exceptional.
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Codecademy
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Not the best structure for quick refreshers
The content of the lessons is aimed very much at people just starting to learn how to code. This is perfect for beginners but if you want to use Codecademy to refresh your knowledge the lessons are not designed to be quickly done.
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Interactivity
Right from the start, users write code. They start small in an environment that has constant feedback and gradually progress to more complex concepts. Users can see code results instantly, giving great feedback.
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Lack of context
Codecademy is great for providing a hands-on approach, but there is a lack of context regarding how to start a project in real life. While users may learn how to code using Codecademy's interface, they may not have any idea how to code independently.
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Excellent progression
Codeacademy doesn't overwhelm beginners with information. It gives bite-sized information, the bare minimum needed to finish a task and get to the next one. As the course progresses, it slowly fills in background information.
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Sticks to pretty basic
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Good editor
Codeacademy has a powerful, beginner-friendly integrated development environment (IDE) that can also be used outside of curriculum.
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Deleted a lot of content
A lot of free content has been taken away, for example the PHP course was removed from the site.
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Bite-sized lessons
Each lesson in code-academy focuses on a single concept, and repetition is provided to drill the concept.
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Buggy
Codecademy is known to have many bugs which interfere with the editor, resulting in error messages despite having the correct answer.
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Mostly free content & best progression series for beginners
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Allows infinite loops to run
If you run an infinite loop, the browser freezes. Many other similar websites will give you an error, preventing the loop from running. Though not a bug, the lack of feature to stop infinite loops from running can be quite frustrating to beginners.
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Community forums
It has forums which can be used to discuss with other learners
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