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The sadly-discontinued Udacity CS 253 (Web Application Engineering) with Steve Huffman. Partly because of the accessibility of the material and Steve’s sometime
by didgeoridoo 8y ago
The sadly-discontinued Udacity CS 253 (Web Application Engineering) with Steve Huffman. Partly because of the accessibility of the material and Steve’s sometimes puckish delivery (learning sick MongoDB burns in 2012 put me way ahead of the tech curve). Learning how to build and deploy a web app in Python with the super-lightweight webapp2, rolling your own salted-and-hashed account system... so many good tidbits that gave me a good intuition about how web apps are put together.
The timing of the course also couldn’t have been better for me personally. It was released about 2 weeks after I quit my job. I wanted to learn how to build digital products, and after struggling with scattered tutorials, CS 253 was like being thrown a life preserver.
Thanks, Steve.
- Jugurtha 8y agoAre we sure it was discontinued? It is still listed on Udacity[0] and another course titled "Intro to Backend"[1]. I enjoyed that course by the way. [0]: https://eu.udacity.com/course/web-development--cs253 https://eu.udacity.com/course/web-development--cs253 [1]: https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-backend--ud171 https://www.udacity.com/course/intro-to-backend--ud171
- didgeoridoo 8y agoThere it is! Thanks for finding — somehow all my Googling ended up on Udacity 404 pages...
- fnayr 8y agoPretty sure it was already the “hip” thing to make fun of mongodb before 2012. Who doesn’t remember this classic? https://youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs https://youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs
- np_tedious 8y agoWant to point out that Steve Huffman, also known as /u/spez, is co-founder and (once again) CEO of reddit. I have not taken this course, but have watched the excerpts particularly about reddit. I was definitely impressed with the presentation and have no difficulty believing the entire course is quite good