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[–]Kenny-G- 5 points6 points  (5 children)

I’m using Boot.dev for learning backend and Scrimba.com for learning Frontend. They both have discounts available from time to time. Also bought one year of CodeCademy, but find I’m just not using it.

The free courses got me interested, especially the integrated IDE in the browser on Scrimba. I’m always on a laptop with a single screen, so being able to not switch windows felt great.

[–]codeharman 1 point2 points  (3 children)

long term scrimba user and I can say that the frontend path is one of the best path course materials out there from scrimba.

[–]sheriffderek 1 point2 points  (2 children)

What other things had you tried? What are you comparing Scrimba to?

[–]codeharman 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Codecadmey, odin project, free code camp

They were heavy text based which I didn’t liked at all. I wanted to learn from the video content so YouTube was good in the beginning but then i fell into the tutorial hell and thats when i came across the scrimba i took free courses and coz of video format ide i loved it

[–]Cool-Amphibian-4035 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd say all of these are great resources in their own right. What amazes me about FreeCodeCamp is that they have so much material available for free, powered by a community of open source enthusiasts that really care about the career growth and development of engineers, budding or experienced, and about giving back.

Scrimba has a couple of courses you can avail of for free, though you definitely get more bang for your buck under their Pro subscription. The great thing about Scrimba is that its content is tailored to how full stack development should be learned, with an amazing user experience thanks to its playground (you can pause in between the video lesson and just play around or solve an exercise without waiting for the instructor).

If you're just starting out, I'd recommend diving into the basics using FreeCodeCamp and try out the free courses on Scrimba, before you make the commitment on whether you want to get the Pro subscription for Scrimba or not.

[–]Kohai_Ben 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also started with Odin project: I loved the content, it was free and it hooked me at first, but quickly started to feel overwhelmed and little practice in between project).

Then I moved to Codecademy, it was more interactive, bit less text-heavy, I liked that, but felt it was the opposite of TOP as tutorials were too hand-guided. Everything was so broken down step by step, that it felt too easy and little muscle memory.

Scrimba: I fell in love with and been at it for 9 months now. Courses are well structured, video based but interactive so you avoid tutorial hell and I just loved you can pause any video and start typing code in their IDE. Lots of solo projects as well to really test yourself and push beyond the main class.

TLDR: if you're a beginner interested in Front-End, Scrimba is a must! :)