[Blackpool] Udemy - Introduction to Raspberry Pi

[James Page]

I'm not very good at paying full price for courses, so I tend to only grab
the free ones from Udemy. What I do usually is search for 'udemy' on Reddit
every few days, just to see which course authors have published a course
and are offering voucher codes. That said, I did buy a highly-regarded UX
course on Udemy once, so I will part with my money if I have to!

Others I'm yet to audit are Tuts+ and Pluralsight.

On the whole I regard the Lynda courses quite highly. Certainly recommend
them for novices. Some of them are a bit slow and make unusual assumptions
- that was the experience I had with the Drupal courses, anyway.

I've also taken a couple of good classes with Skillshare, although they
were a while ago. It's a great platform if you're looking for more
artistic, crafty and designy stuff.




Best wishes,
James

On 9 January 2015 at 12:14, Arthur Garlick <arthur_garlick at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> Just blasted through that pi course, wasn't relevant to me.  Very little
> detail, already out of date in places and  hacking Christmas lights has
> been better done elsewhere.  What was the full price $80?... omg three
> months of Lynda would be way better value.
>
> Keen to hear of other training things if you see any.
>
>
> I felt I had to actually give Lynda some money it was only fair, having
> taken the unofficial torrent based freemium option in the past.
>
> cheers
>
> Arthur
>
>
> > Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 12:04:44 +0000
> > From: jmsp.1983 at gmail.com
> > CC: blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > Subject: Re: [Blackpool] Udemy - Introduction to Raspberry Pi
>
> >
> > No worries - as with any Udemy course, it's down to the particular course
> > author. I've found some great ones and some poor ones.
> >
> > The chap who wrote the Pi course has also published a Scratch course. I
> > believe there's a code floating around on Reddit at the moment.
> >
> > At the moment I'm subscribed to Treehouse on a student subscription -
> > $9/month for access to their courses, which isn't bad!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > James
> >
> > On 9 January 2015 at 09:06, Arthur Garlick <arthur_garlick at hotmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks James,
> > > Code and link worked for me on the PC thanks. (I tried with the Udemy
> app
> > > but the course is not listed in the app yet).
> > >
> > > I completed the Udemy Python course that is free, unfortunately with
> that
> > > particular course there is good reason for it to be free as the
> content,
> > > delivery and editing are all poor and it was a struggle to make it to
> the
> > > end.
> > >
> > > I subscribe to Lynda training and the quality of their material is
> > > excellent, I did Python and Tkinter with Lynda in spare bits of time
> and
> > > recommend it if you are wired up to be able to learn that way - it's
> not
> > > for everyone I'd guess.
> > >
> > > Looking forward to seeing how good a paid for Udemy course is...
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Arthur
> > >
> > >
> > > > Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 00:37:18 +0000
> > > > From: jmsp.1983 at gmail.com
> > > > To: blackpool at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > > > Subject: [Blackpool] Udemy - Introduction to Raspberry Pi
> > >
> > > >
> > > > In case anybody's interested or want to pass it on to a friend or
> family
> > > > member:
> > > >
> > >
> http://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/2rgwnb/free_coupon_for_my_brand_new_udemy_course/
> > > >
> > > > Don't know how long the voucher code lasts for.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Best wishes,
> > > > James
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