What service or subscription do you use to stay up to date? Do you learn from services like TreeHouse, CodeSchool, EggHead.io, PluralSight, Lynda etc. I would love to hear and learn from your experiences.
I've only used pluralsight but it's ridiculously good in my opinion. I was asked at work to trial a couple of courses from some providers and in the process was signed up for the pluralsight free trial. The company decided overall it was too expensive, but I was hooked so I bought a subscription with my own money. It has definitely been a tangible boost to my career. I'd be interested to hear others experience of how other providers.
I've used Safari Books, Pluralsight and Egghead.io.
Pluralsight was pretty good. I got a lot out of a number of videos. Since they cover a variety of topics, it was great to spin up on something when I needed it. For instance, I was working with Redis and needed to pick up Lua so I took an hour, watched a video and was on my way. This was about a year ago and their selection around Javascript was a little lacking for the topics I wanted but that has probably changed by now.
Safari Books is fantastic if you like to read. They also have a ton of books on other topics so it makes it a much wider resource depending on your goal. At the time, I was doing quite a bit of "intrapreneurship" so it was nice to grab a book on product development, business and entrepreneurship.
I currently have a subscription to Egghead.io which is way more front-end focused. Around Christmas, they tend to offer a year long subscription for a reduced price which I picked up. The topics don't tend to be as varied as Pluralsight but I think the depth of a lot of them is really good. For instance, I got more out of the Egghead videos around Angular and React than I did from Pluralsight.
Pluralsight got me up and running with StreamInsight so much faster than if I would've had to slog through manual pages and the sparse blogosphere myself. It can be difficult to find content that isn't web related and I'm glad it was there.
I really like the learning paths based on actual documentation (for instance From Developer to Architect, or From sysadmin to data engineer are very good).
[+] [-] nicostouch|9 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] mead5432|9 years ago|reply
Pluralsight was pretty good. I got a lot out of a number of videos. Since they cover a variety of topics, it was great to spin up on something when I needed it. For instance, I was working with Redis and needed to pick up Lua so I took an hour, watched a video and was on my way. This was about a year ago and their selection around Javascript was a little lacking for the topics I wanted but that has probably changed by now.
Safari Books is fantastic if you like to read. They also have a ton of books on other topics so it makes it a much wider resource depending on your goal. At the time, I was doing quite a bit of "intrapreneurship" so it was nice to grab a book on product development, business and entrepreneurship.
I currently have a subscription to Egghead.io which is way more front-end focused. Around Christmas, they tend to offer a year long subscription for a reduced price which I picked up. The topics don't tend to be as varied as Pluralsight but I think the depth of a lot of them is really good. For instance, I got more out of the Egghead videos around Angular and React than I did from Pluralsight.
[+] [-] jimcsharp|9 years ago|reply
[+] [-] eb0la|9 years ago|reply
I really like the learning paths based on actual documentation (for instance From Developer to Architect, or From sysadmin to data engineer are very good).
[+] [-] n13|9 years ago|reply