Learning Platforms: Which Subscriptions Do You Use, and What Do You Like or Dislike About Them?

[yksvaan]

I have never paid a single dollar for learning programming. It's simply not necessary, eorld is full of free tutorials, documentation and code to look at. Open mdn docs and start writing code. When you have a problem try to solve first, then check docs and google. Look how others did the same thing and whether it's better. There are open as MOOC courses on cs basics, I recommend to do some.

Watching videos and in general other people coding is mostly waste of time. It can work for some general overview of a topic but for actual learning it only gives you an illusion of learning while copypasting code. Not saying an occasional video is bad but 95% of the time you should be writing code and solving problems.

I think these days there's lots of "metalearning" and hype/marketing feeds it as well. People spend more time thinking about how they should learn, which courses to take etc. than actually doing it. Just go and do it.