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Spent $65 on a coding course that was just someone reading documentation aloud
I thought I was being smart about learning Python last month. I found a course on sale for $65 that promised to teach me web scraping in "just 5 hours." The first hour was fine, but by hour two I realized the instructor was literally reading the official requests library documentation word for word. Not explaining anything, not showing real examples, just reading paragraphs from the docs. By hour three they started doing the same thing with the BeautifulSoup docs. I wasted a whole Saturday and $65 on something I could have gotten for free on YouTube. Has anyone else run into these lazy courses that are just overpriced reading sessions?
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samf958d ago
I heard about this from some guy I follow on Twitter who does web development tutorials, and he was ranting about how these garbage courses are everywhere now. It's like they record themselves reading the official docs and slap a price tag on it. I saw one course that was literally just someone copy-pasting from the Python docs into a terminal and running it, zero explanation of why the code worked. The worst part is these instructors probably know exactly what they're doing, they bank on people not realizing the docs are free. Have you tried checking reviews on sites like CourseReport before buying?
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