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07-03-2016 , 04:34 AM

BiggerBoots

adept

Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 739

Hi,

https://teamtreehouse.com/techdegree

Is this course a legit way to learn code and get a job?

For a complete beginner which course would you recommend? Most useful, Easiest to get a job, biggest salaries etc?

Deciding between the 199 and 499(its 599 for some courses). Is the most expensive plan worth it? You get 2 30 min one2one coaching sessions per month and professional project reviews?

Thanks

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07-03-2016 , 08:30 AM

JC2612

journeyman

Join Date: Aug 2012 Posts: 325

I highly doubt that any of those on their own would be enough. Have you written any code at all yet? Do you even know if you like it?

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07-03-2016 , 03:10 PM

daveT

S.A.G.E. Master

Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 23,955

EdX, Coursera, etc, are taught by accredited universities. The certs they sell aren't taken seriously afaik. This is taught by whom? Looks totally bogus.

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07-04-2016 , 01:15 PM

maxtower

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 7,996

You should start with an intro to programming class before doing any of these IMO. If you like it and feel like you have an aptitude for it, then take on a more specific technology like these courses.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrica...g-spring-2011/

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07-04-2016 , 01:29 PM

just_grindin

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Originally Posted by daveT

EdX, Coursera, etc, are taught by accredited universities. The certs they sell aren't taken seriously afaik. This is taught by whom? Looks totally bogus.

+1 I think Udacity is the same way. Also MIT's open courseware.

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07-04-2016 , 06:25 PM

Mossberg

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Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 5,857

Also highly recommend CS50x as a starting point:
https://www.edx.org/course/introduct...harvardx-cs50x

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07-05-2016 , 12:04 PM

Go_Blue

centurion

Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 182

you probably would learn a lot. before deciding on anything, you should ask yourself why you want to do web dev and write out an answer.

as an aside, i've never completed certificates on these types of sites, but i do put free courses on my resume even if they're not computer science related. i think they make you more interesting to interview.

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07-05-2016 , 12:48 PM

Mossberg

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Originally Posted by Go_Blue

as an aside, i've never completed certificates on these types of sites, but i do put free courses on my resume even if they're not computer science related. i think they make you more interesting to interview.

Do you just list individual courses under your "Education" heading, along with your more formal credentials? I would be interested to see an example, if you don't mind sharing.

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07-05-2016 , 01:32 PM

Go_Blue

centurion

Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 182

I've got a COURSEWORK AND PROJECTS section on the top, and one of the bullets is:

• Current Free Courses: Functional Programming Languages (University of Washington) , Introductory Physics I (Georgia Tech), and Computer Networks (University of Washington);

A lot of the free courses I take are more Philosophy and Physics related, but that's an example of what it'd look like. And sometimes people ask me physics stuff, and I'll go into what I learned in a course prefacing that I'm a n00b who's just interested in learning about how things work and why we exist.

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07-05-2016 , 04:18 PM

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Mossberg

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Cool, I like your approach and can only see upsides in listing courses like that.

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