Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publisher Benesse

Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by citeguised on Thursday February 20, 2020 @04:08AM (#22373760)

"JavaScript: Understanding the weird parts" by Anthony Alicea is a high-quality course which helped me understand JS on a more fundamental level. This is the main one I always recommend for folks who know JS, but would like to take a step further: https://www.udemy.com/course/understand-javascript/

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by mseidl on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @02:06PM (#22486807)

This hasn't been updated in 5 years.

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by barbecue_sauce on Thursday February 20, 2020 @08:21AM (#22374856)

That was the first Udemy course I bought, and was fairly surprised by the quality. Anthony Alicea hasn't released anything for a while, so I'm wondering if the relatively immense success of his courses has made him financially independent.

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by orangefarm on Thursday February 20, 2020 @04:02AM (#22373733)

I studied Vue and Nuxt through Maximilian Schwarzmüller’s courses, which I liked. He has a very beginner-friendly teaching style, which was right for me at the time but might not work for everyone.

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by pritambarhate on Thursday February 20, 2020 @04:46AM (#22373880)

Yes can vouch for Maximilian Schwarzmüller. I have gone through many of his courses. He tends to cover everything from basic to advanced topics. The courses are generally longer also.

This is his YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSJbGtTlrDami-tDGPUV9-w

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by polymatter on Thursday February 20, 2020 @05:39AM (#22374107)

Cam here to recommend Maximilian Schwarzmüller’s courses. I started on the Advanced Javascript and once I compeleted that have gone and done a few more with him (including Vue). It was instrumental in getting me competent enough to be a developer today.

Its worth pointing out he is not only on udemy though.

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by hiram112 on Thursday February 20, 2020 @08:09AM (#22374797)

+1 for Max. I'm a backend dev who got thrown on the frontend, and i enjoyed his React course and also the CSS one with some other guy.

For $10, these courses are a much better value to me than the somewhat absurd process for tech books from Manning and O'Reilly that are often $50 and will be out of date in two years.

I used to be a huge tech book fan and would spend hours at Barnes and Nobles and Borders during their heyday, and they had massive sections devoted to programming and IT.

I'd hoped ebooks and cheap publishing would have brought down the price of books, especially those related to some software version that will be outdated in a short time, making the book worthless. But the industry refuses to give up their old pricing model, so maybe Udemy and similar sites can provide an alternative.

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by donmcronald on Thursday February 20, 2020 @05:03AM (#22373955)

I like his style. I was able to watch a lot of his stuff start to finish like a tv show.

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by jmnicolas on Thursday February 20, 2020 @03:41AM (#22373644)

I stopped bothering with Udemy a couple years ago, in my experience 90% of their courses were junk.

Packt is OK but a few of their courses are unintelligible due to a strong foreign accent.

Lynda (or Linkedin now) has good quality but seems more geared toward beginners, it's rare to find advanced topics.

I like Pluralsight, they have advanced topics and their foreign instructors are intelligible.

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by barbecue_sauce on Thursday February 20, 2020 @08:23AM (#22374867)

I haven't been on Pluralsight in a while, but always found it to be high quality. Has anything interesting come out recently?

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by tiew9Vii on Thursday February 20, 2020 @05:20AM (#22374029)

https://www.udemy.com/user/stephane-maarek/

His Kafka course https://www.udemy.com/course/apache-kafka/ is highly rated and AWS courses get good feedback. A lot of effort gone in to the production and is knowledgeable on the topics.

Given the Kafka course has 56,023 registered students alone even at the lowest offer price minus Udemy fee's he's done alright out of it.

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by skinnyarms on Thursday February 20, 2020 @06:39AM (#22374342)

Glad to see someone mention this course. It and several other courses that he published were very helpful getting me up to speed on Kafka.

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by pritambarhate on Thursday February 20, 2020 @05:59AM (#22374175)

Sometimes authors give away a course for free for a few days and post on places like Reddit. This helps them to get the initial mass and ratings. So we can't always assume that all registered students have paid for the course. I have taken a few free courses like these when I saw them on reddit.

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by unreal37 on Thursday February 20, 2020 @06:47PM (#22379696)

Stephane is legit.

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by spookyuser on Thursday February 20, 2020 @03:59AM (#22373723)

I have the same experience, in fact for the most part I feel like everything I've tried on Udemy has been the same level of quality as a YouTube tutorial.

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by indigochill on Thursday February 20, 2020 @07:07AM (#22374454)

I've been generally happy with Ben Tristem's beginner game dev courses. Specifically because they make an effort to stay up-to-date with the engine updates, and they demonstrate every single step involved in the process so if there's anything a beginner Unity/Unreal dev gets stuck on in the process, they'll find a video demonstration of how to do it there.

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by colkassad on Thursday February 20, 2020 @10:48AM (#22375857)

His Unreal Engine C++ course is especially great.

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by tilolebo on Thursday February 20, 2020 @05:53AM (#22374159)

I'm half into Colt Steele's "Web Developer Bootcamp", it's been really good so far.

But according to some reviews it's also above average for Udemy content.

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by cbzbc on Thursday February 20, 2020 @07:03AM (#22374435)

As it seems we have moved away from just Udemy courses - I think the content on linuxacademy is generally good, and their labs are useful.

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by barbecue_sauce on Thursday February 20, 2020 @08:28AM (#22374901)

Linux Academy's lab based approach is pretty helpful, but sometimes their course content (videos) is pretty horrendous. Some of the course content (particularly Kubernetes and other container related courses) often seems like it is made by people who aren't as familiar with the technologies as they think they are, or are just not capable of intelligibly organizing slide decks (making things headings that shouldn't be, leaving elements out of lists of items, etc.).

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by cbzbc on Thursday February 20, 2020 @11:50AM (#22376397)

I had done some of the AWS courses and was just about to move onto their Kubernetes stuff -- is there another resource you'd recommend instead?

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by barbecue_sauce on Sunday February 23, 2020 @08:06PM (#22400759)

katacoda.com

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by artsyca on Thursday February 20, 2020 @06:39AM (#22374339)

The ultimate drawing course taught me a lot of helpful little tidbits that improved my drawing - https://www.udemy.com/course/the-ultimate-drawing-course-beg...

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by FrozenSynapse on Thursday February 20, 2020 @03:54AM (#22373696)

GameDev.tv courses on game development are pretty good, their Blender course was also pretty good.

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by busymom0 on Thursday February 20, 2020 @05:15AM (#22374002)

Would you recommend it for someone who has good experience in programming apps but has zero experience in game development? Any other suggestions?

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by FrozenSynapse on Thursday February 20, 2020 @06:13AM (#22374227)

That is exactly me! Some parts of the course may seem too easy if you have programming experience, but the Unity part is useful.

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by gbersac on Thursday February 20, 2020 @09:52AM (#22375427)

All the courses by this gy-uy are very good https://www.udemy.com/user/andrewmead/

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by JofArnold on Thursday February 20, 2020 @04:12AM (#22373774)

Frontend Masters, Egghead and Kent C Dodd’s testing course are all much better if it’s programming (especially web) you’re interested in.

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by shimst3r on Thursday February 20, 2020 @04:38AM (#22373860)

The official Flutter course was very good, hosted by London App Brewery.

Definitely worth it if you’re looking into cross-platform frontend development.

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by kipchak on Thursday February 20, 2020 @09:38AM (#22375344)

I've been enjoying Mike Meyer's Security+ course, though professor Messer's course is a good and free alternative.

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by strongbond on Thursday February 20, 2020 @08:52AM (#22375045)

+1 for anything by Stephen Grider.

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by ing33k on Thursday February 20, 2020 @03:46AM (#22373662)

depends, there was a Golang course that I really liked, but it was deleted and lost access to it !

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Re:Udemy raises $50M at a $2B valuation from Japanese publis... by zerr on Thursday February 20, 2020 @06:05AM (#22374192)

Which one? It should be archived in torrents.

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