Not related to the topic at hand, but who buys these courses? Going off the chapter titles it looks like it’s all basic ‘read the documentation’ kind of stuff (to me). I could imagine it being useful to beginners, but not anyone with a moderate amount of experience (they’d just go to the Neo4j documentation).
On the other hand, what beginner starts with Neo4j and Cypher? Is there really enough of them to justify a whole course? Apparently there are, it just feels weird to me.
Re:Don't DRY Your Code Prematurely
by LouisSayers on Friday May 31, 2024 @02:05AM
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You're right in that if you go through the docs you can find all the info you might need.
It's really catered for beginners, people that have next to no knowledge of graph databases or Neo4j and want to get up to speed in just a few hours.
I imagine some people may not even be super technical, but may want to learn just the basics of querying a DB at work to get some basic info out of it.
Apart from lessons there are also exercises for people to practice what they just learnt, and I do my best to point out gotchas and keep it mildly entertaining with a gentle progression in difficulty.
https://www.udemy.com/neo4j-foundations/
There are many people who do teach and explain topics well. Richard Feynman comes to mind.
I've found Abdul Bari on YouTube to also be an excellent teacher around technical topics.