Not to mention how much utter crap there is out there in tutorials-land. There are some great courses available, but for example, I would never hire a person if

Not to mention how much utter crap there is out there in tutorials-land. There are some great courses available, but for example, I would never hire a person if their coding education came from tutorialspoint-dot-com. It seems everybody learning a language they hadn't seen before feels this need to spew out courses and tutorials re-iterating what they were learning while they were learning it, but then give up before they actually reach a point of being at an authoritative level, and then failing for whatever reason to remove their unfinished garbage from the Internet where it muddies the puddle. To be fair, I only started one tutorial from tutorialspoint, but I gave up on it because there were so many glaring errors that you could get through that course and still not be able to make a real world program that does what you hope it would do. Look at Lisp, for example. There are dozens of unfinished tutorials out there. Usually a person taking the tutorial doesn't know it is unfinished until they get half way through and notice the details getting sparser every page, and then suddenly drop off a cliff, leaving you with lots of chapter headers, but no content. Then look at the Quantum Lisp tutorials and courses to see just how bad it gets. I think after the glow of being "the guy with the course" wears off, the incentive for finishing their work drops off, and everyone is left in a lurch. You might have noticed, this is a pet peeve of mine. Friedburg University's adaptive training is an example of code training done right. Get your education where you can get it. But there still needs to be some real-world way to prove to yourself that you've actually learned enough to turn it into a career move. None of the online "tutorials" (which are more like loose language descriptions) I've seen will get you there, and only a precious few I've seen present actual real-world cases that would get you to the point that you could pass an actual coding interview.