Udacity

I had zero experience with ReactJS when starting the Udacity course, but by the time it was over, I had successfully created four applications - from scratch - with pretty impressive functionality. I've been a UI developer for a long time, and I've (mostly)... Read More bemoaned the increasing complexity of the role. I had more enjoyment in the early days, cutting up PSD files, creating complicated layouts via tables or css, making them responsive and functional cross-browser. When jQuery came into vogue, I hesitated a little but quickly loved the power and simplicity. But, as React and Angular started to dominate, I hated it; I didn't sign up for this "real programming" stuff! Udacity made the daunting task of transforming my approach manageable. It was a challenge, but the individual units were extremely well-structured and explained clearly. The best part of the course, however, are the medium-to-large projects that they have you create from scratch. They give you just the right amount of preparation to be able to achieve the applications from scratch. By the time you're completed, you have a comprehensive understanding of the concepts, and can use React and Redux together to create a lot of functionality that previously I would've considered too complicated to even attempt. And if you're stuck, they've got online chat groups which you can ask questions - or search archives of - to find solutions to your problems. And since everyone's writing their own apps from scratch, everyone approaches the problems with just enough uniqueness that you can't just do a search and copy/paste to fix your problem. It's that sweet spot where you'll find something similar, or be able to post your snippet and get feedback, but you're still doing all of the key mental work yourself and teaching yourself the concepts in practical situations. Highly recommended.

Before I took the Udacity VR Developer course, I knew very little about programming in Unity and VR. I am an experienced C++ and C# programmer so that helped a lot.
On top of learning VR, the course taught me a lot about programming in Unity. The course... Read More material follows a clear and, to me, logical progression. Each section is broken down into detailed sub-section, with videos and quizzes that progress to a project to exercise the skills just learned. The projects are fun and challenging. They also leave a lot of room for creative freedom! If you go online and search for "Udacity VR projects" there are hundreds of very different solutions to each project. They give plenty of time from the beginning of the lesson to the completion of the project, so I spent way too much time and had a lot of fun tweaking my projects and testing out new ideas before submitting it.
My mentor, Victor, was extremely fast in getting back to me to answer my abundant amount of questions. He also helped me solve a problem in 5 lines of code that would have taken me days to figure out.
If there are any downsides, I would say that a working knowledge of C# would greatly benefit. They also give you a spec sheet for each project. They are fanatically literal when checking your project against the specification. So, read it completely and follow it exactly.
If you are new to VR and Unity, I highly recommend this program!

Before I began my Nanodegree, I worked as a trainee at a firm that installed industrial HVAC equipment. Udacity did much more than just teach me how to program and begin a career in web development. It taught me how to think like an engineer and a team... Read More player, prepare for an interview and put me on a path that made me excited to embrace new technology that ultimately lead me to getting a junior frontend developer role. I now run a small agency that designs and builds websites for small businesses and I’m incredibly thankful for what I was able to learn through Udacity. I’d easily recommend the frontend and full-stack web developer nanodegrees to any aspiring web developer in a heartbeat

A year back, I enrolled in Udacity's Full Stack web developer nanodegree and Front end developer nanodegree. Both the courses were good but were very basic. I wanted advanced learning material.
pros-
great material
interactive videos
regular assignment reviews... Read More
job portal
cons-
expensive

Within one year, I went from knowing nothing about code to being able to build simple Android apps! It left out all the theory behind it and focused on practical knowledge and applying it in various mini projects, each a little more complex than the one... Read More before. Since I have a university background, this was completely different from my prior learning experiences, absolutely refreshing. Also, the community was lovely and the code reviews couldn't have been more helpful and supportive. If I had wanted to, I'm sure I would have found a (trainee) job afterwards. It was a fun, empowering challenge!

Pros:-
Definitely a good start for those who look for career switch from their current role at the company. Skills can be transferable from one subset of your experience to another. Also it is helpful for those who look to try the quality of the nanodegree... Read More as it is RISK FREE (7 days REFUND POLICY).
A Great Visual and Theoretical Explanation of Difficult topics through videos, quizes, and projects !...
As for my experience, I has great content, though need to work hard if you miss out something, but you can complete those too in pre-requisite section of the syllabus. Mentorship is helpful, but for me it was horrible and i don't liked my experience although experience varies person by person.
Had a great learning and practicing, but it has very less contents for practicing topics before really starting the project( like be able to be confident).

Cons:- You can have a bad experience with the mentorship, though i was suffering from that feature, actually i had to change my mentor, because everytime udacity asked me to rate my mentor, I rated four-star, one-star and left my comments, that was supposed to remain anonymous(according to udacity) but by then the mentor changed behavior and he cancelled atleast of 3 zoom calls, the reason he told me was he was alloted many students and he was super busy. Actually this is my personal experience. Since I've had to change my mentor, that took a long time(15 days) and i didn't dare to ask doubts. After the mentor was changed, i was regretting because the previous one seemed to be not so good but he was a bit technically above than the second mentor, but because of my rating review, he treated me badly.Mentorship is the worst experience i have had first time in my life. I think Udacity needs to improve a bit more on this.
The second thing i want to say that you udacity should update it's project content regularyly once in a 6 months(or 1 year), or should be updated with more relevant type of project.
Thank you..
PLEASE NOTE--[ THE OPTION IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR 'Intro to Machine Learning Nanodegree' Program in the Course drop down list, so i've chosen the first option..].

I started my programming journey by going through various MOOCS but couldn't find a single one with a structured path. Then wayback in 2015, I found Udacity and started my journey with Udacity with Android Basics Nanodegree and Introduction to Programming.... Read More The structure of the course in terms of content, projects and support was awesome. As the course progressed, I gained more confidence in programming. For some one with no programming experience and now working as a Data Analyst is really overwhelming. Thanks to Udacity for making learning interesting and fun.

The pros for choosing Udacity as training platform because it offers an all-in-one platform where you can not only watch and read course material, but also work on coding exercises directly in the platform. The course fee also includes all the required... Read More resources like using third party platform like AWS, Google AdWords and Facebook Ad.

The cons is the support is not as great or effective as the platform.

I completed two courses successfully. The experience was great especially the method of mixing short video with exercises has been making the learning more interesting. Also, filling the gap between practical vs theoretical questios also impacted the... Read More learning curve as well.

I loved the detailed and well explained topics addressed in my course in Udacity. I felt like I was learning every part needed to be an Android developer as it should be implemented with correct software practices. The best thing was having the support... Read More of a mentor to answer my questions very quickly (next day). I also liked the time restraints the course gave me, telling me I was supposed to be at X point but was lagging behind. This pushed me and motivated me to continue. Finally, after graduating, I appreciated the support for job searching and interviewing, though I was not seeking for a new job, I was able to bring all this knowledge to my company for me to improve personally, and also help all the team improve.