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The New Boston video series
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Everything is free
The tutorials are completely free.
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Somewhat outdated
These videos are a few years old (2011), so there is some content that is a bit outdated.
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Video tutorials
Tutorials are presented as videos, making them easy to follow / see what's going on at each step. Many people find this format less daunting and easier to take in than traditional text based tutorials.
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Suitable for beginners
No assumptions are made about prior knowledge, meaning anyone can start watching and pick up the basics fairly quickly.
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More than 200 video lessons
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Official Android developer's guide
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Best source for the most up-to-date information
The guides are actively maintained as they are the official guides for Android.
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Requires some programming experience
The guide is much better suited for those who have programming experience.
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Free
Available online for free.
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Covers both beginner and advanced topics
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Well-organized
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Comprehensive
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The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development
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Covers a lot of different subjects
This is an extremely large book at around 3500 pages. The table of contents is extensive, with topics ranging from the process model to power drain and memory leaks.
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PDF only
The updated versions are no longer available in print, and are only available for purchase from the site in PDF.
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Updated frequently
"The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development" is frequently updated (every couple of months) to insure all information is relevant.
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Udacity
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Courses taught by industry professionals
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Nanodegrees are expensive
Udacity is quite expensive at $200/month if you want to do a nanodegree.
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All courses are self-paced
Courses are always made available which means there is no waiting for the specific course you want to run. You can work through the courses as fast or as slow as you want.
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Offers Nanodegrees
Udacity offers a few different Nanodegrees which provide access to various different courses, project reviews and coaching support for $200/month. Current options include Front End Web Developer, Data Analyst and Android Developer. See the full list here.
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Courses are easy to understand
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Actual feedback on coding projects
You get actual feedback from developers on your code, which is useful. Yes having your sites/apps do what it is supposed to do is important, but you need feedback to learn industry standards/best practices and other gotchas that are much harder to learn on your own.
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Language that is easy to understand
Courses are super easy to follow, even for super dummies.
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Worth the investment
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HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Python, Swift, SQL, R
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Editor, progress saver, forum, video tutorials
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Lynda
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Quality and quantity
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Lacks a community
With no user forum, there is very little opportunity to engage with other students and discuss the learning material.
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Video tutorials with commentaries
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iOS and Android apps are somewhat poor
Compared to the experience available on the web, the mobile apps are severely lagging behind.
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Extensive
There are a lot of different languages to choose from thanks to their large offering of courses (almost 4000 total that cover various subjects).
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More ways to help retain the information would be helpful
More quizzes, tests and assignments to help practice and retain the presented information would be helpful.
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Build as you learn
Many courses offered on Lynda take a hands-on approach, encouraging you to apply what you learn by building projects.
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It's possible to get transcripts of videos
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Videos can be watched at 2x speed
If you feel yourself getting bored with the lecture, it's possible to speed it up to get through it quicker.
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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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Android Bootcamp video course
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Free
The videos are completely free for anyone to watch.
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Some videos are quite long
Some videos in this series are quite long (over an hour, some close to an hour and a half).
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Requires Java experience
This isn't a good starting place for beginner programmers as it assumes some Java knowledge.
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Treehouse
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Great instructors
The course formats are flexible enough that instructors are able to employ their own styles so long as exercises are offered in consistent intervals and student progress is measurable. The instructors communicate very clearly and are very approachable.
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Regular participation is essential
This is not a good place to skip ahead and work backwards from a specific need. In fact, even skipping sections you have mastery in can be risky since the condensed material relies heavily on past examples.
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Great material presentation, instruction, and visualization
Their animations and screenshares supplement the instruction, giving a really good all-around learning experience.
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Credit card required to sign up for the free trial
Treehouse offers a free 14-day trial, but requires a credit card to sign up.
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Best beginner's option
Materials are very well made and it'll get you started with the technology as fast as possible. Haven't found tutorials that well made and understandable. Nothing is skipped or assumed without reference to courses within that were recommended to you earlier. This makes the site an efficient review resource if you ever forget a basic concept.
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The quality is inconsistent among courses
Treehouse has multiple teachers in order to provide such a variety of content. However there is a lack of consistency with teaching styles - Some courses provide content that is well explained and goes at a reasonable pace. Other courses can be quite hard to follow. The challenges are also inconsistent - Some are too easy and don't reinforce much of the material learned.
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Project-based learning
Soup to Bits videos show you how to build an app step by step in real time. Each is short and digestible yet illustrates many relevant new concepts.
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Way too expensive compared with other options
Most advanced materials are locked away as "Pro/Bonus."
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Learning tracks
Trying to figure out what language or tool to learn can be frustrating. TreeHouse groups their courses into learning tracks so you have more guidance, based on what type of development you want to do. Some of the tracks they offer: Web Design, Front-end Development, Full-Stack Javascript, and PHP Development (see the list here).
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Charges your credit card before the free trial expires
The Treehouse offers a free trial period, which is nice on the one hand. On the other hand you still need to register a payment method to be able to use it. And what's even worse, if you cancel the paid subscription before the FREE trial ends, you loose any access to free trial! So you will then have to pay a subscription fee to renew the access to the free course even though you SHOULD have some trial period left. That is absolutely unacceptable these days and smells as quite a shady business practice.
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Workspaces
You don't have to install anything to your computer and can learn from anywhere using their Workspaces. The effectiveness of this tool cannot be overstated. Even though instructors often preface courses with installation guides to setup popular environments the Workspaces allow you to jump right in, mimic the examples, work on your project, experiment with tangent thoughts, or even complete parallel courses simultaneously, within separate Workspace instances. Execution is very fast and space is ample.
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Has become very buggy/unreliable
The number of bugs has gradually been increasing to the point where the platform may be more frustrating than beneficial for some users (as of October 2016). The engineers seem to be doing their best to stay on top of things, but bugs appear to be occurring faster than they can fix them. Some bugs require you to refresh the page (often multiple times) before getting the information correctly displayed. UI elements jump around, some features on the site are broken.
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Build projects as you learn
Most TreeHouse courses allow you to build interesting real-world projects that make for a fun way to learn how to apply what you've learned (such as apps, websites, UI elements and more).
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The forum lacks conversation/engagement
TreeHouse provides a a forum for students to have discussions. However almost all posts are students looking for answers to the quizzes and challenges. Any attempts at general discussions about business, learning, programming, job seeking etc. tend to go without replies.
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New material added freqently
TreeHouse releases multiple new courses every month on various different topics. They do an excellent job of keeping pace with a changing industry. For example, they released courses on Swift not long after Swift was released.
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Not an in-depth resource
Most Treehouse courses are geared towards beginners, making it necessary to use other resources in order to gain a deeper understanding of the language you're learning.
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Forum
If you're stuck with an task you can easily get help on their forum. Most topics are visited by hundreds of students per day and responses are often returned within minutes if not seconds. In case your question cannot be answered by the imminent community, they can be pushed to recommended members or staff experts for prompt responses.
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Very Effective Resource
Criticizing the lack of advanced material seems unjustified considering how consistent the paths are with the costs and transparent intentions. Advanced resources are usually politely introduced then passed over.
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iOS and Android app
Treeehouse provides an app for both iOS and Android that is easy to use.
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Portfolio
You can share courses that you successfully completed when you're applying for a job. Probably after completing course you have a solid understanding in given technology.
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Motivates Students
The community is very supportive and the company convincingly more interested in your positive referral than in your subscription, though both is obviously preferred. Besides recognition and gamification, your timely progress is actively encouraged. There are even employer monitored sections with suggestions of how to meet career goals with related skills.
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Student discount
You can get a student discount easily using their email support.
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W3Schools
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Easy to learn
All the tutorials are written in a straightforward and easy to understand way.
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Outdated practices / problem solutions
The practices that are shown to solve the problems at hand are rarely, if at all, updated. Usually, their tutorials and learning material is updated only after they see their profits drop.
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Built in editor
Almost every example has a "try it yourself" button which opens up an editor in a new tab. It allows you to play with the example code and see how it works.
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Doesn't care about teaching right
There are multiple errors in the data they show. Although the solutions they show work, they will lead to unmaintainable code. That happens even when the maintainable code alternatives are as easy or accessible to new programmers as the alternatives.
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Well organized tutorials
All of the lessons are separated into their own pages, which makes it easy to learn about specific concepts.
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Certifications not recognized
Many professionals in IT agree that w3s certifications are not recognized by them and are deemed useless. Good luck finding any respectable professional that accepts a w3s certification.
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Great source from Google search's perspective
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It is for profit
What defines what goes is and what gets fixed on w3schools is what gives them profit and what doesn't (through their ads system).
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Written tutorials only
While many learning resources offer a mixture of media in their courses (such as videos, challenges etc.), w3schools offers only written tutorials and code editors. This makes w3schools more beneficial as a quick reference rather than a primary learning resource.
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