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TIL that $80 online Python course taught me more in 3 weeks than a semester of community college coding class did
The college class had us memorizing syntax while the course just had me building little projects right away, has anyone else found online courses way more practical for actually learning to code?
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claireo671mo agoMost Upvoted
building little projects right away" is pretty much the opposite of my community college experience, where we spent a week on semicolons. I tried to learn Python from a library book once and ended up using it to hold up my laptop. Online courses at least let me break things in real time without a grade on the line.
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max_ramirez481mo ago
I mean, I get what you're saying about online courses being more forgiving, but honestly that sounds like the exact problem with them. When you're paying for a community college class, there's actual pressure to get it right because your grade matters, and that pressure sticks with you. Idk, maybe I'm old school but having a week on semicolons sounds like a good thing to me. Those library book struggles you had? That's real learning, hitting walls and figuring it out without a safety net. Online courses let you break things all day but never force you to really understand why they broke in the first place. Maybe it's just me but I'd rather struggle with a semester grade on the line than breeze through with no consequences and end up forgetting half of it later.
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