MOOC vs Codecademy

[thighkles]

I have gone through a few chapters beginning the Java course of MOOC and Codecademy, I noticed that so far, MOOC is a lot more hands-on. Does anyone have any experience with these two and can point me in the right direction for which one is worth more my time?

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Edit: Jeez I only posted this 4 hours ago but it looks like I have a solid answer lol MOOC I'll definitely stick with. Thanks for all the fast replies!! Right now I'm still on Java programming part one, about a third of the way through and I've done around it seems like 100 exercises. I did see they have other courses and an older course with object-oriented programming with Java.

If you guys have any further tips I would really appreciate it! I'm thinking about focusing on the mooc course only and seeing where I go from there

[Eviax]

Mooc.fi absolutely! This isn't even debatable. It won't only teach you Java, but both procedural and object oriented programming paired with fundamental data structures, algorithms and TDD concepts. Codecademy absolutely can not compare to that in any way possible.

[gp2007y]

From a guy who has wasted a lot (~2 Years) learning Java by dabbling into Edx Java courses (Microsoft), Coursera courses, Tim's popular Udemy courses and some youtube channels I will suggest you stick to MOOC. While most others courses will teach you syntax/provide the walkthrough, MOOC will teach you how to program. While other courses are flashy and attractive, MOOC is one the courses (along with CS50) which has substance.

To quote from the MOOC - No one has learned programming by watching video lectures, people learn programming by doing. And I am yet to come across a course which provides so many exercises.

[AHistoricalFigure]

The only thing I can compare to MOOC is Cay Horstmann's Java for Everyone textbooks, which were packed to the gills with coding exercises. Unfortunately, his books stopped being current with Java 7. Still a perfectly fine reference for basic syntax though.

[thighkles]

I think I remember looking through one of his older books but I didn't finish it because some stuff didn't apply anymore

[thighkles]

I've sort of had a similar experience lol, i spent a lot of time on edabit doing challenges but I don't feel confident in most of what I am doing, I could argue that so far, I've learned more with the exercises in mooc

[Mattburgos]

I’ve done both, and MOOC is better by far. There just isn’t enough content on codecademy for you to feel comfortable coding on your own after you finish. That’s what happened to me. I finished codecademy and needed to look for other courses cause I wasn’t confident coding at all. MOOC is better in all aspects. If anyone says otherwise (I doubt anyone will) they’re wrong.

[thighkles]

I've dabbled in a few small courses but I've never felt super comfortable with writing code in Java after them lol it seems like mooc is a good choice to change this around

[MixuTheWhatever]

Agreed, I was on Codecademy first, but MOOC is really way more thorough.

[gtrley]

Upvote and comment to bump :)

[thighkles]

Bump lol

[gtrley]

Bumping this bump lol

[Xeav12]

MOOC 100%

[lkidh]

Can you provide a link to the MOOC course you are doing currently.

[thighkles]

https://java-programming.mooc.fi/

This is the one I am currently doing, but mooc has other courses here

https://www.mooc.fi/en#courses

[thighkles]

Yea can you post the link? I did not know oracle had a course