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Spent $400 on a 'complete' coding bootcamp video set that was just a mess
Back when I was starting, I bought this huge DVD set (this was a while ago, okay) that promised to teach you everything from HTML to Python. It cost me about four hundred bucks, which felt like a lot then. The videos were all over the place, jumping from topic to topic with no real projects, and half the code examples were for old versions of the software. I ended up just using free stuff online that was way better organized. Has anyone else gotten burned by buying learning material that turned out to be useless?
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williamh485mo ago
What was the final straw that made you give up on those DVDs and just go find free stuff online instead? I feel like there's always that one moment where you realize you're wasting your time, like when a video uses code that just doesn't work anymore.
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noahpark5mo ago
Wait, you think I gave up on DVDs? Nah, I still buy them sometimes. The final straw for me was actually when a streaming service removed my favorite show for no reason. That's when I started buying the DVDs again for stuff I really care about. Online stuff can just vanish, but the disc is always there on my shelf. So now I do both, stream for casual watching and buy physical for my favorites.
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