How do you select online courses?

Question

IT education

A question for people prosharennym about the criteria for choosing educational material. And yes, I understand that the prosharennye read only docks. Nevertheless, the docks do not always reflect the practical applicability (range of application and patterns in practice), and in principle, the documentation is different

, as I see it:

• more practical application
  
• the author is not Hindu (among them is the well-known practice of writing a book for Packt or hanging out with stupid questions on ResearchGate, similarly with turnip courses
  
• author with some background
  
• preferably from a prestigious cantor or university, but sometimes there is a lot of theory and little practice, or both are few, but one pathos (everything is complicated)
  

UPDATE : A lot of people thought I didn't practice much. BUT all my life I have taken a practical approach. However, in my experience, the best approach is practice with tasks to reinforce. Most of the docks are deprived of this, as well as someone else's practical experience. A good teacher is not a machine, like those Soviet women who taught us. This is a person who shows how the subject looks, and not pure dry theory. And yes, each textbook offers at the end of the assignment - probably just a waste of paper.

twoone :

Otherwise, you shouldn’t go to school either, because people who are not capable of working in their specialty read the docks (curriculum). although I agree that 98% of all videos are complete slag created by dudes with zero knowledge.

Answer 1

The problem with the question is this: someone who is qualified enough to determine the usefulness of certain courses does not belong to the TA of these courses, so he can hardly give other advice than to read books and documentation.

A good teacher is not a machine, like those Soviet women who taught us. This is a person who shows what an object looks like, not pure dry theory.

maybe you need a mentor, not courses?

Answer 2

Courses are not required.

Answer 3

A good site is https://www.coursera.org/ there are reviews for each course.

Answer 4

Quoting Ronald McDonald

Only beginners neglect the official documentation from the developers, preferring courses or miserable literature that retells the same documentation, tying it to the same miserable special cases. Studying the private, you will be a monkey (I’m not talking about the web now, honestly, there’s just no other word), which is trained to do something specific, and gets confused on another task

Here he yelled a little. Prestigious office? Buy courses for 300K from GeekBrains or a little cheaper from Yandex. But that's just the prestige does not reflect the quality of the presentation of the material.

preferably from a prestigious office

Answer 5

preferably from a prestigious cantor or university, but sometimes there is a lot of theory and little practice, or not enough of both, but one pathos

Prestige and quality do not correlate with each other. If you need courses, then first of all, start not from the name of the site, but from the one who makes the courses. Learn about them, about their experience.
Don't skip the documentation. Often she will give much more.

More practical application

And this is entirely up to you. No one is obliged to lead by the hand on every sneeze and give practice in such quantity. In addition to courses, you also need to write yourself, write a lot, a lot. Stuff all the bumps.
Courses will give a learning plan, but everything else is your responsibility

Answer 6

Well, what kind of bias towards the Indians? And we have a lot of mumbling, reading from a piece of paper, not understanding what people are reading. I know at least one good specialist - Rakesh Gopal, I watched his courses on SQL queries on Udemy (and they are also free)