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I tried a couple of Microsoft's edx courses. Their strategy is to get you to use the their tools rather than teaching you.

• diego_moita 8y ago
  Funny, I tried a couple of them too and got both: teaching and marketing. Same happened on Google (AdWords, App Engine), Apple (XCode), Amazon (AWS), ...
  • gaius 8y ago
    If you see Linux Foundation’s EdX course on blockchain of course they teach it with Hyperledger... Everyone uses their own toolset, why wouldn’t they? (I didn’t take that course)
• solarkraft 8y ago
  How does this compare to Google's course?
• dragonwriter 8y ago
  The ones I've taken did teach but were both extremely basic and much more focussed on teaching the tool than the application domain. And, yeah, they're pretty promotional. Then again, that's very similar to many of the expensive Microsoft-certified trainings I've seen, so honestly it's still an improvement.
• gaius 8y ago
  Their strategy is to get you to use the their tools rather than teaching you. Well you have to use some tool, and to teach a course everyone has to use a common tool, so what would you suggest? Your own favourite editor on your own favourite Linux distro I suppose? What if other students favourites are different? The class will spend its whole time getting their environments set up.. FWIW I’ve taken some of MS EdX courses and they use Python, Jupyter, R, RStudio... loads of open source stuff. See https://notebooks.azure.com https://notebooks.azure.com for the typical environment they use
• byproxy 8y ago
  At least in the Java course I've surveyed they advocate using IntelliJ Idea ... and, well, Java in the first place.
• bitL 8y ago
  How were the C++ ones? I don't mind learning Visual Studio, most of gaming industry uses it anyway...