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Instructors for Pluralsight have to audition[0]. I bootstrapped my C# knowledge into a programming career entirely off of Scott Allen's MVC 3 videos back in 20
by cheschire 7y ago
Instructors for Pluralsight have to audition[0].
I bootstrapped my C# knowledge into a programming career entirely off of Scott Allen's MVC 3 videos back in 2011/2012. He took the time to not just follow the project templates, but to start from empty projects and explain step by step what MVC's plumbing was doing. It was hugely eye opening and really removed a lot of the man-behind-the-curtain feeling of how that framework functions.
John Papa's videos also helped me understand a few new design patterns I'd never used, such as Unit Of Work and repositories. Even if you don't use those things, it's awesome to be able to recognize the pattern with others use them.
They went through a few expansion phases and merged / bought a couple other training companies into them, and their content really took off after that.
Now they have some great automated assessment programs that help focus your learning onto different tracks[1].
I haven't used their product in a couple years now as I've shifted into management and my organization has a lot of internal management training courses that will keep me busy for years. Still though, Pluralsight is where I go back to when I want to pick up a new specialist skill.
0: https://www.pluralsight.com/teach https://www.pluralsight.com/teach
1: https://www.pluralsight.com/product/skills https://www.pluralsight.com/product/skills