Udacity

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.

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.

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

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.

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.