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Even Udemy is not that bad. If you wait for the right price you can get a decent introduction to a topic you are interested in. I learned to use Blender that wa
by wukerplank 8y ago
Even Udemy is not that bad. If you wait for the right price you can get a decent introduction to a topic you are interested in. I learned to use Blender that way, filled some gaps with different platform SDKs and so on. Great way to kickstart a hobby.
- nerdponx 8y agoThe Youtube ads are so unbelievably patronizing that I wouldn't dream of giving them my money.
- tEMporality7 8y agoYour drawings would look great in 3D!
- ChrisRR 8y agoI agree. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard "Python's where it's at. You can do almost anything with it" skips ad
- znpy 8y agoI've known Udemy for a lot of time but never really cared. Until I started looking for courses on uncommon subjects I am interested in. Then I discovered a new world, basically. I now always keep one eye on sales at Udemy, and will be spending 200€ on a single course in the following day. Content quality, as always, depends on the course and the author but generally when it comes to IT and related stuff the rating is a good indicator of quality.
- jf- 8y ago> I now always keep one eye on sales at Udemy, and will be spending 200€ on a single course in the following day. Are these not covered by the perma-sales?
- znpy 8y agoNo, the topic is very specific and AFAIK the course author decided that the course will never be part of sales.
- ChrisRR 8y agoUdemy has literally always got sales on. I don't think I've ever paid more than £11 on a course
- dpau 8y agoOnce while logged into my Udemy account (with three past purchases) I was disappointed to see that classes were no longer on sale. But opening Udemy in a separate incognito window showed the classes at their usual heavily-discounted pricing.
- sokoloff 8y agoI’ve seen the same and it has absolutely stopped me buying courses at Udemy (even for $11). I previously bought around 25 courses at $10-11ea and was probably good for another 100+ paid over the coming decade. Worse for them, I’m a decision-maker on corporate training. 0 chance Udemy gets the nod there with tactics like this. [0] - I have 42 total courses in my account. I didn’t bother to count how many were paid vs free.
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- znpy 8y agoYeah, it was not accepted. Thank you anyway :)
- weinzierl 8y agoI very much agree with that. Finding a decent course can be a bit challenging though. My strategy is to filter for 4.5 or more stars and more than 1000 students. I‘m not saying all courses below this threshold are bad but for filtering I‘m strict about these numbers. 4.5 is a good threshold because I found that even at 4.4 there are so much more courses that selection is a pain. Udemy conveniently has a filter with exactly this limit. If a course is over 4.5 I don‘t care about the rating as long as there are more than 1000 students. There is a class of courses which usually have 4.7 or 4.8 stars and few hundered students but are terrible. I guess this where they land with bought students and ratings. Which Blender course did you take BTW?
- puranjay 8y agoI ask a single question with every course I take: can I list three actionable things I learned from this course? If yes, then the price was probably worth it. I took a Udemy marketing course that regurgitated most of the information I already knew. BUT it included a bit about positioning that I adopted and which landed me more than $10k worth of clients. I paid $20 for it. Good deal I'd say
- hobo_mark 8y agoUdemy is not that bad, it is WORSE, they have been aggressively sending ads for courses like this: https://www.udemy.com/crystal-healing/ https://www.udemy.com/crystal-healing/ EDIT: not sure it's the same course, turns out there's many with similar names on Udemy...