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Started their GO course on YouTube which linked to an interactive web application for programming and running the code. After two short Chapters the third one basically forces you to get a Premium membership otherwise your only able to see the code without any possibility to run in. I wouldn't mind that at all, if the course would've been honest about this upfront. When I voiced my frustration about this in an appropriate and calm way - as I due here - they just deleted my comment after a few seconds. While this explains why all the comments under the video were positive or off-topic, it also explains why a video with ofter 400k views only has about 250 comments.
The overall experience in terms of learning was fine. I was expecting some more coding challenges. The course instructor Charles Severance (aka Dr. Chuck) seemed like he knows what he's talking about and showed many many examples for better explanations for the topics. I found the book Python for Everybody very helpful and precise throughout. In a nutshell, this course is great for building a basic foundational knowledge on python.
Dreadful course with faults and little hitlers for forum moderators. I tried this as a refresher after some years out of coding. Very simple tasks split into small pieces. Seemed good. During the responsive design course I came across a fault in their answer checking which showed a correct answer as wrong. I went to the forum to add a post about this but automation highlighted a number of posts that may have been about the same problem. They were, so I added my own comment to one of the posts reiterating the issue. The post was shut down by a little hitler who told me to add a new post. There is no possibility of reply or review of their decision nor means of explaining that it was the forum itself that suggested NOT adding a new post when a problem was already described. This is the essence of bureaucratic tyranny and extremely frustrating. It also highlights that the FCC have failed capacity for testing their own product and for enabling open-door conversations about users who experience issues. I would recommend avoiding this program as errors like this will drive a newbie insane and could put them off coding completely. Yes its free to most users, but the service is paid for and used as cheap way of getting prospective staff to train themselves for free in their own time so don't believe for a second this is some sort of cornucopia. Years ago companies would recruit and then train staff at their own expense and they would be paid for the time they were giving up to learn skills useful for the profit generation of the company owners. Regardless, I would avoid free code camp. There are other more interactive and open ways of learning with people who will respect you and not shut you down and silence you with no recourse for reply.
I am not very new to HTML but didn't try to certify myself, till now. I stumbled upon FCC while looking for some Python courses. While the UI looked a bit clunky, I was impressed by some story and said I would give it a try. To cut it short: I was trying to pass as quickly as possible through the HTML challenge and see what was happening. I noticed the following:1. After successfully completing without mistake the first 10 or 15 tasks, a pop-up appeared asking for a donation. It was not a nice interruption.2. After the same amount of tasks, the same interruption. It happened like 4 times, during the first challenge. 3. The browser stopped working 4 or 5 times. 4. Everything worked a bit slower than expected. I admit I wanted to go as fast as possible... but... there were too many times when I was just waiting for the input form to be active... so that I can insert my tags., or whatever I was inserting... 5. By the last steps of the challenge (which I figured out were the last steps after some tricky thing happened/ read below) the donation pop-up appeared again. Again I pressed "ask me later"...6. By the probably very last step of the challenge, a new pop-up appeared asking me to complete another challenge. The only active button was "start coding" and there was no other possibility the escape that form/ window... 7. I pressed "Start coding" ... a new account (like number, number, number, letter, letter, letter, something) was generated for me, I was included in a new challenge, on the new account. All my previous effort was "erased". From my IP, now I can only access the new account.PS: I found the exercise instructions to be good and good enough. However, this aspect, for me, was not enough to simply not take into account the rest of the experience.
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