Udacity Reviews
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Gaurav Pokharkar
Review of Udacity's self driving car engineer nano degree program
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What do you like best?
I used Udacity to learn Intro to Self Driving Nano Degree Program and Self Driving Nano Degree (SDND) Program. I liked the way they have created the content from basics to more advanced and complex concepts. They had online work-space setup to solve the problems. This helped me understand the concepts in a better way. The way the course was organized made it easy for me to grasp the concepts quickly and implement them efficiently. Plus they have real life projects based on autonomous vehicles, this helped me build a great portfolio to showcase to my new employers and helped me in the job change.
Because of this I also enrolled in Sensor Fusion Nano Degree (SFND) Program with them again.
What do you dislike?
In the Intro to SDND program they had assigned one to one mentor for each candidate, this helped me solve my problems quickly, but in the SDND program they took away the personal 1:1 mentor concept instead they introduced student hub where students plus few mentors would solve your problem collectively. This caused some problems as our conversations were lost there and sometimes the questions remained unanswered. They should improve the student hub as it is not much user friendly.
Another thing that I disliked about them is the setup to run the programs on local machine for windows user is not much intuitive. I faced lot of issues while setting up the work-space locally on my machine. They setup for Ubuntu users is pretty simple and straightforward. Later to counter this issue I bought a workstation and created a dual boot Ubuntu system for the Sensor Fusion Nano Degree (SFND) Program.
They have LinkedIn, GitHub review services included in the SDND program. They also have career services that can help you with your job search once you are done with the coursework. One thing I disliked about this was there should be an option to opt out of GitHub and LinkedIn review temporarily. Due to time constraints I skipped Github review during SDND program, now I don't have it available when I bought SFND program, I will have to pay extra to buy it separately. They had clearly mentioned about this, but they should take into consideration personal constraints and allow us to postpone it within the one year after the graduation from the course. This would be really helpful.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would suggest having a little bit knowledge about Ubuntu, bash scripting basics and at least a dual boot PC with Ubuntu as one of the OS, and using it for the coursework.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
I am an engineer and I wanted to learn the engineering behind Self Driving cars and wanted to switch my career in the autonomous vehicles field. The concepts taught in this course are directly applied in the field. This helped me understand the engineering behind autonomous vehicles. I was able to create my own project portfolio. This helped me change my job which led to salary and benefit increment.
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Ewa
review of a Android Developer Coure (basic)
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I started the android developer course with zero knowledge about app programming. Despite this it was possible for me to learn basics and programm a simple cheering up app for a birthday present. Besides this I am now ready to develope my programming skils and work as an intern or junior specialist. During the course I have been learning many practical things. When I wasn't able to manage the course tasks I could always ask my mentor who was very helpful. After every project I always got valuable feedback. And what is more if I got tired or stucked on some task I could watch a motivation videos or talk to someone on slack.
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Saw Larry James
Android Developer Nano Degree
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Diego Bustos
Full stack web developer
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I took the Full Stack Web Developer program in Udacity for three months. it was totally worth. I didn't have experience with databases and servers. But the lessons were clear and you can build your first app just following the videos.
My mentor helped me a lot, especially with the last project, deploying the app in AWS. Also the projects ar reviwe in just hours, which makes easier to finish each lesson
I still have access to career support, so I'm still working on my LinkedIn profile and Resume
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Mostafa
My studying experience in Udacity
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Hello, I'm Mostafa. I was graduated from Udacity Course (introduction to programming). It was very enjoyable, and I have benefited from this course. It's nice way to begin in web, AI programming and game development. We studied about 4 programming languages and it's HTML, CSS, Javascript, Python. it's only for beginners and from the name of course it's just introduction. It helped me much in finding a job, and make my CV very rich. The only thing I consider it from the cons is lack of projects that I have to do, it's only 3 projects. I wanted more projects to do for practicing.
Thanks , for reading. I hope that was useful, and I wish luck for you.
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Jennifer Piper
Intro to Programming
Learn the basics of programming through HTML, CSS, and Python.
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Christoffer
Engaging, useful course
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I completed the Google Developer Androd Basics Nanodegree at Udacity. I started with very little coding experience. The course was really exceptionally well-made for my level of knowledge. The course goes right into the very basics, but explains all concepts in a clear and engaging way, using both visual and audio cues. Along the way the course also addresses things like dealing with steep learning curves and impostor syndrome to prevent people getting discouraged, and there are lively forums and Slack discussions to foster a sense of community among students where everyone helps each other to succeed. The mentors are also helpful. From a basis of almost zero, by the end of the course I felt very comfortable designing and building simple apps, and as a result, I managed to get a fairly coding-heavy IT job two weeks after completion. This is a great course that I can definitely recommend.
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Matteo Bonanomi
Data Science Nanodegree
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I attended both terms of Udacity Data Science Nanodegree. Compored to other e-learning platforms, I was surprised by the huge great amount of contents, as well as their quality. The first part of the course was mainly related to machine learning algorithms, the second part to software engineering and developer best practices. Both theoretical and practical aspects are well explained ann each project allows you to apply what you have learned in a very useful way.
It is a very job-oriented course, it helped me a lot in terms of data science skills that I applied in may day-by-day activities. I can only suggest those who want to start their career as data scientist to apply to this wonderful nanodegree!
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Milos Gajdos
Deep Learning Nanodegree
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I complete the Deep Learning Nanodegree foundation and have to say it was one of the best online learning course I have taken so far. The course teachers focus on building up your intuition about how neural networks work first and the slowly transition to more advanced topics through hands on programming exercises. The feedback on your course submissions is super fast and helpful, too. I enjoyed this course so much that I signed up for AI Nanodegree afterwards and I was glad I did. It was excellent, too!
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Acacio Passos
Udacity - Deep Learning Nanodegree
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Nanodegree was pretty intense for me and sometimes I couldn't keep up as much as I would like. I worked hard to understand the concepts and subjects covered, even though I knew I would not use them so often in my daily life. The program exceeded my expectations as I came to better understand how a neural network works and how powerful this tool is. I really enjoyed this nanodegree and recommend it to anyone interested to do so. It is very worth it!
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Luis Henrique Muniz de Carvalho
Deep Learning Nanodegree
The course material is very complete, has excellent teachers and great examples. Having people analyze your code, help correct it, and improve it are differentials that make Udacity worth studying.
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Vinod Kumar
Android nanodegree
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MM Nauman
A lifeline for beginners so don't miss if you are greedy to become developer
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This course changed my life, I know coding before Joining this course but when I opened my classroom then I got to know how to learn and what to learn? Because the course was relevant to the time and properly formatted, And a student get 1 To 1 Mentor to clear confusion and also we get slack worksapace and a forum to discuss. Udacity also select mentors among us to lead this helps in building leadership qualities. I was also mentor of my branch for a slack channel. The course was tough because you cant cheat in practical projects because your project is being reviewed by a human not AI. Overall a life changing course if you are desperate in starting or kickstarting your career. -
Prakash VB
Full stack web developer
Full stack web developer -
Sufyan farea
Udacity-program
Nanodegrees -
ngbede eche sule
mr
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I was one of the thousands of Africans that signed up for the Google Africa Scholarship (AKA ALC 3.0). The scholarship is 100% online and scholars learn online using the Udacity platform. The Udacity platform is amazing, I liked a lot to watch the course materials and the quizzes. The content needs to be updated to teach modern approaches. I enjoyed to learn to code with the Udacity support, the mentor's feedback was a plus, a lot of good insights there, really good.
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Awad Abdullah
Your destination to learn
I believe that Udacity is the best place to learn new things on the technology side. I learned about business analytics and predictive analytics for business. They give you short videos that have all the information you need in a simple way. My plan is to get more than 6 nano degrees through Udacity and I recommend you to join and start learning.
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Philip
Udacity is outstanding
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The oportunities Udacity provides are amazing. I've already done 2 Nanodegrees and using the learned in my day by day job. I believe the quiality of my work is much better after passing courses in Udacity. The investment in the Nanodegrees paid out as faster and more robust solutions from my side resulting in happier clients. Course materials are perfect, videos professionally done, exercises build up complexity as you go, content is oriented on quality. I'm always trying to find time to start new course and recommending Udacity to colleagues.
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Dave A
I went into this course expecting to learn Python
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I went into this course expecting to learn Python. Having finished the course, I find I have learned a lot more: • Python (in-depth), • Ndarrays, etc. using NumPy, • DataFrames, etc. using Pandas, • Working with many other NoSQL structures • A more powerful SQL language: PostgreSQL • Unix Shell commands • Git Perhaps even more importantly (and unexpectedly), I learned a bunch of really useful techniques to use in the coding world such as: • How to routinely work with other contributors using Git and GitHub, • Using a Shell terminal with Git Bash and Anaconda packages, • Using code editors: Atom and Visual Studio Code, • Using program output to feed Excel charts • Using Excel charts to make compelling Powerpoint slides, • Adding links to Google and Markdown Docs, • How to preview results in real time when writing Markdown docs, • Creating good README.md files and many other best practices The projects were well done and very effective in helping me apply the lessons learned in the course. I especially appreciated the Python project using just under a million real-life records of bikeshare usage data. After looking back and thinking about what I learned, to say that I highly recommend this course would be an understatement! Dave A -
Damola Salisu
Front end web development
It's a great and well paced program that steadily guides you through essential topics with increasing complexity. They also have really helpful challenges along the way that reinforce concepts learned
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Phil S
Coding course with valued return and results
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This past summer I decided to commit to Udacity's React Nanodegree program. It is a lot of money for many to consider forking over for a several month / online course, particularly when you can generally learn most of this stuff on your own for free with all of the content available now. This is how I have learned and picked up my knowledge/skills most of my life, outside of work or school. While this is true, I am glad I decided to take a chance and give it a try - I will likely be considering more in the future as it is actually a well laid out course and when its all done/finished, you have your very own completed projects ready for your portofolio and reference beyond a good base to really get going with it.
I would recommend if considering this course to put the time in early and be sure before hand that you have many weekends available to work on the projects. It would likely help to have some JS/CSS experience before starting this course. I have a number of years with HTML/PHP/CSS/JS as well as other languages like Arduino/C/CPP/Autoit before starting but found JSX semi-unintuitive at first. Later on though the JS/CSS really helped finalize the projects, if I needed to learn this as well as JSX it may have been too overwhelming. As it is, it took me a bit of consistent effort with it to get the hang of it, now I really like it and have built a couple of my own projects with it already after finishing the class.
Looking back though, the course itself does a good job I think of laying out the content and tip-toeing you the first bit. The course walks you through the basics and why JSX was developed, then quickly moves you into your first project. The first project you are provided much of HTML/CSS/Content and to build a working React/JSX searching/sorting/organizing web app. The last two projects, you are given only a Rubric/guidelines and must built the projects from scratch, one being another web app and the other being a React Native app (in order to build Android/iOS apps using React/JSX).
The instructor speaks very clearly and does a good job presenting and even codes in the video lessons very well. It's easy to follow, study and learn from.
The course also gives you access to a discussion board so that you may work/discuss with classmates as well as one of several knowledgeable staff members who are always available to help.
During the course as well, you are also provided Resume and LinkedIn feedback if you like, it is optional but recommended. Even if you don't make any of their guideline changes and just want some feedback anyway, it's not graded toward you passing React course or not but ultimately always helpful to get experienced feedback with this kind of thing if looking to get into the field. I believe Job Assistance could be better but with Udacity it may depend on the specific course program you get into and if you are willing to possibly relocate potentially. It's my opinion that this React course was not built with intention of getting a React Developer position immediately after though I do believe it is possible, especially if you follow their recommendations: getting involved with other open source projects, building your portfolio/experience and apply for developer roles.
There are plenty of resources available though that become available to you during / after the class, so if you put the effort in time you will likely do very well, learn great React/JSX fundamentals and have several new projects you can add to your portoflio. The really nice thing about React though is that you now have a framework/knowledge to be able to build fully functional applications with JSX which allows you to build applications for essentially every modern device.
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Petros Kalogiannakis
Great learning experience
An amazing platform with a great community and a quality range of courses. The level of knowledge and experience gained through Udacity greatly helped the course of my career as a software developer.
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Francesco
Android Developer course
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I had a very nice experience with Udacity.
It was my very first experience with the online courses and from the start I understood how Udacity was the best choose I had made.
The informal online videos, made from professional teacher but also from professional developer, make learning interesting and very productive.
The tutors/mentors follow us and track our learning, in my personal experience they motivated me and made possible to reach the certification. Their work was also 1 to 1 or in community.
The plus for Udacity I think is the community, infact many people around the world share their experience, but they also helps other students. After years I'm still in contact with a lot of collegue, and still we help each other. Udacity learn us how to share our knowledge.
At last but not least, Udacity have a very good career section where students can improve their portfolio, CV, linkedIn profile and many others..
I had a beautiful experience in Udacity, thanks to them I could change my job and role after only 1 month from the certification day.
In my near future I will start other interesting courses.
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Mahmoud Emam
Android Developer Nanodegree
An advanced nanodegree for Android technology -
Tarek Eletriby
my experience
introduction to programming nanodegree -
Ricardo
Amazing
Incredible teaching, I learned a lot from the content offered in the course.
Thanks to the courses I took at Udacity, I was able to find a job in the area where I got my nanodegree -
Amber Marks
Marketing Analytics
This course was well thought out, but execution was lacking a bit. The projects seemed to range from 5-10 minutes, to several weeks (with reviews coming back unclear, etc.). This course helped me to realize that I DO NOT want a career in marketing analytics; for this, I thank them. Course was overpriced - they should charge half of what they currently do.
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Brandon McBride
Android Developer Nanodegree
Amazing Course Learned Alot! -
James Dumlao
Android beginners course
Was awesome learned so much and help was always accessible. -
Basel
The awesome bootcamp !
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This wasn't my first course I take from Udacity
the first one was an iOS Developer in 2018
When I take the iOS Developer, I had experience with iOS developing for two years. But even with that experience, it was beneficial and improving my code skills and my knowledge forward.This year 2019, I decided to learn Android Developer.
Because of the fantastic experience with Udacity on the iOS developer course, I decided to take an Android Developer course with them.
But this time, I have 0 knowledge of Android Developing.
So far, it was astonishing I learned everything I need and also more than what I think I will learn on another course.Why is the Android Developer course different than iOS Developer course?
Because of an Android Developer course, it's with involvement with Google, which means Google was helping with Udacity to create this excellent course. By finishing this course, you can join the Associate Android Developer and get your certificate from Google.So what makes Udacity great Bootcamp for learning new stuff?
Udacity lets you're learning from recorded videos and also reading a lot of texts. And it is also connected you with other students by helping each other. And by finished every section on the course, there is a project you must do it on your own. And that is the most part I love about udacity. Especially on learning programming language, If you're learning with video by doing what the lecturer do, by only copying and pasting, you will never learn. And you will suffer a lot when you do your project or work project ! But if you are learning from video and after every section, you do a project on your own. You will learn a lot, and you will test yourself if you did understand the topic very well or not!
After you finish and submit your project, the reviewer will check your project and giving your feedback and tell you're if you are passing the project or not. If not passed, they will let you know why and give you some suggestions that will allow you to fix anything you miss or doing it wrong to passing the project.You can re-submit multiple times until you pass the project. Believe me, the review and their feedback are perfect and very helpful. Sometimes they give you suggestions that not mention on the course. So you can learn new things!
Udacity, they not only focus on teaching you the course topics.
They also consider on let you get a job after graduating,
By offering you reviewing your Linkedin, Github,CV, and cover letter.
Also, they have a page that lets you learn how to pass the interview and so own. I wouldn't be lying if I told you you could graduate from Udacity and get the job on that field because they will teach you everything you need to know.Udacity not only from a programmer only, they have multiple courses on marking and AI and also bussines, UX design.
When you tried Udacity for the first time and graduated, you will come back whenever you what to learn something new.
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John Balderson
Android Developer Nanodegree
Android Developer Nanodegree
The Udacity Android Developer Nanodegree program is an excellent way for developers to learn everything in Android from coding practice, deployment, and a capstone project. I highly recommend this school.
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Mohamed Alkherb
Data Analyst and Data Scientist Nanodegrees
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The first time i studied at Udacity is when I applied to the "1 Million Arab Coders" initiative in early 2018. I got enrolled in the Full-Stack Developer course. In this course, I learned a lot about python programming and scripting. The python programming skill helped me to get employed in the Data Science field.
I got hired one year ago as a Data Analyst. However, I felt that I need to further enhance my Data Science skills to make me confident at my job. I knew that Udacity will be my choice, and I was going to pay for it. Luckily, I applied to a scholarship on Misk Academy to study at Udacity and got accepted. The Data Analyst Nanodegree program was well-contructed and walked me through each step of the data analysis using python pandas library, from data collection, cleansing, analysis to visualization. It helped me to be confident about my skills at work, so I recommend everyone who is interested in the data analytics to take it.
Furthermore, I decided to move forward and take the Data Scientist Nanodegree. Currently im in the second term of the DS program, and I can say that it is very helpful. It covered the machine learning concepts and applications, software engineering, experiment design and recommendations, as well as a capstone project. I also recommend this program for those who are interested in predictive analysis and machine learning.
In summary, Udacity is a very effective projects-based e-learning platform that provides the essential skills for several professions. It helped me a lot, and I plan to continue taking any interesting course at Udacity in the future.
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Raj Kumar
Udacity Inc.
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Andre Souza
Udacity Nanodegree
The Front-End Dev Nanodegree exceeds my expectations ! Thumbs up 👍 You won’t be disappointed
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abdelrahman aly
my review
just need some improvment in the hard to understand functions just like the difference between date_part and date_trunc but the rest of the course is all good
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Jonathan Ennin
Thrilling and Insightful
My experience has been thrilling and insightful. I have been able to accumulate, in a short space of time, a lot of valuable skills to help me chat my career path. Mentors have been so helpful together with the community. Thanks, Udacity!
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Vijay
A complete guide for fullstack
The course is well structured, helped me to strengthen my basics and also gives a guide to best practices in industries
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Anonymous
the course taught is very different from the project requested
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Please, if you only have a little money, don't ever take Udacity, especially if you are a beginner. If you are still reckless, especially if you use someone else's code on GitHub, you will not be able to continue the class and resubmit your project. udacity is not very beginner friendly, and has a strong zero tolerance for plagiarism.
The material provided was very different from the project requested, for me the appropriate rating for Udacity was 1/10, including their poor service, emails were only answered after 1 month. It doesn't deserve to be called an online course -
Anonymous
Great experience at Udacity
I know well that artificial intelligence is future. That's why I choose this course. One of my friend suggested Udacity to have my learning platform. My instructors are great. They teach me in very lucid way. -
Anonymous
So frustrating, pls read before you use them
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I was hoping to love them. Unfortunately I do not. Firstly, their workstations frequently don't work, or are clunky and poorly designed even if they do. I cannot submit my SQL final project bc their database and workstation won't load. This problem became more and more frequent with the workstations in their Python course. I contacted support a week ago, they have not helped me at all. I have sent follow up emails every other day with screen shots. In addition to their workstations not functioning, and their poor technical and customer support, their lessons keep asking us to complete tasks before they have taught us how to do them. This is frustrating to say the least. As a teacher with 25 years of experience, this is just poor lesson planning.