Spent $40 on a Python course on Udemy and it actually clicked for me

I was always against paying for coding stuff since there's so much free content out there. But this one course walked me through building a real project step by step and now I finally understand loops. Has anyone else had better luck with paid courses over free YouTube tutorials?

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harperb4624d ago

Yeah, that "walked me through building a real project step by step" line really stuck out to me. I had the same thing happen with a paid course on web scraping - it was like $30 and they showed me how to grab data from actual crappy restaurant review sites, not just some perfect example. Free tutorials kept showing me how to scrape "example.com" which is useless in real life. Once you get that structure of a real project, loops just click because you see them doing something you actually need.

harperb4624d ago

The restaurant review site example is perfect because those things are always a mess - broken HTML, missing data, weird formatting. Did you find that the paid course actually taught you how to handle errors and edge cases when things went wrong? Because that's the part that I always struggled with from free tutorials. They'd show you a clean data set and call it a day, but real life is just garbage data everywhere. Like, what did you do when a restaurant had no reviews at all, or the site blocked your IP after too many requests? That's the stuff that makes or breaks whether you can actually use what you learned.