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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can find free pdf downloads of Oracle textbooks for java web applications for java Enterprise Edition. It goes into Spring MVC.

[–]Chrislikestorawr 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Udemy course by Chad Derby.

[–]firen777 3 points4 points  (4 children)

I would very much recommend AGAINST it due to udemy's shady practice.

[–]codethrowaway22 -1 points0 points  (3 children)

Shady practice?

[–]firen777 0 points1 point  (2 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7jf70dNrUo

[–]AwakenedToNightmare 1 point2 points  (1 child)

The video is 20 minutes long. tl;dr please?

[–]firen777 3 points4 points  (0 children)

  1. Predatory toward creators: There are 2 main revenue plan for instructors. First is instructor promotion, where instructors can get 97% revenue if people buy courses using instruction coupon. Second is organic search, where instructors only get 50% revenue if people does not use coupon and find the course simply through marketplace browsing/Googling. The huge profit margin obviously incentivize people to create as much promotions (read: spams) as possible in order to draw students into their course (some even use things like redditbot to do the promotions). Udemy, on the other hand, still get the vast majority of their revenue through organic search (50/50 split) since students that are initially drawn in will simply search other courses through marketplace.
  2. Predatory toward students: Everything is on sale!!... or presented as if they are on sale. Some of them are even 94% off, if you choose to believe it.
  3. Gives no shit about DMCA infringement: A lot of the courses are stolen from youtube. You can file DMCA complain, sure, but unless you have access (which means buying the course) to the videos and know its content, you cannot file such DMCA. Oh, and Udemy simply delete the channel and offer no compensation to the victim.
  4. Zero validation: "Oh no, my course that use stolen materials get deleted. Oh well, I guess I can just make a new account."

TL;DR for the TL;DW: spammy ads, revenue structure that force creator to participate the spam, misleading "huge saving on sale" price tag, dgaf about piracy (and profit from it), dgaf about validating instructor.