RMOTR

After taking the introduction to python course, I'm not sure that the other reviewers took the same course I did. Because of the scheduled course times and promises of adding projects to our github profiles, I assumed this was a well-structured course... Read More with clear goals and expectations, but this course felt disorganized and disjointed. The syllabus is a bulleted list with no description of lessons or assignments, no dates. The lectures left me feeling unprepared for the assignments, and the lectures were very short compared to what I expected (often ending quite early). I expected 4 hours of lecture material prepared each week, but at least two of those hours were for working on assigments (as individuals or groups). Working in groups was extremely inconvenient, and I would have preferred about triple the amount of individual assignments during the first 3-4 weeks of the course, and then work on larger projects as a group (or individual, if preferred) during the last couple weeks once we all got used to working with github and the IDE, and comfortable with the overall flow of the course.

Well I actually didn't get the chance to try their courses because they failed to attend our very first session!
I was scheduled for an interview regarding their Data Science course, and they even sent me 2 reminders on the day of the interview, then guess... Read More what, RMOTR interviewer didn't show up?!
I spent the next 30 mins hoping someone will show up, I even checked the time and date again just to make sure I didn't miss anything.
I also used their live chatting service, no response there as well!
A horoble experience without ever attending a single session!

I signed up for the web development track and they immediately failed to meet even the most basic assumptions. Their platform appears to be about average but it was so buggy that I was submitting tickets several times a day trying to get them to fix it.... Read More From there it's worse because they don't respond in a timely fashion. Additionally, their "unlimited mentor support" really means a couple nights a week and if you're lucky you might get help on a weekend.

I found particularly interesting how all lessons and classes were detailed thought and talked about specific topics or practices that is not easy to find in books or surfing Internet. That's what I expected to get from an instructor-lead course like this.... Read More Everything else can be found online.

I tried many different ways of learning Python online (Udemy, Codecademy, and many other). Many of them are really cool, and I also learnt some topics. But, what I liked the most about RMOTR's program is the teachers and mentors interaction. That's what... Read More makes these programs differentiate from other self-paced solo-learning ones. I loved that.
Most of the written comunication was exclusively on slack. I didn't like that. I'd like annoucements to come in email too.

I subscribed to rmotr's free Python course with almost no Python experience, and after a month I now have a basic notion of it. Considering it was a free training, that means a lot.
Sadly, I had a really hard time attending classes, due to my local timezone.... Read More