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I’d argue, that if you can complete CS50x and CS50x Web, then you’ll never need a site like udacity.Sure, but that's a tiny minority of people.
If you have the capacity to complete deep CS courses, you can buy a book for $12 and learn React or Angular or any technology you want.
Most people don't have this capacity.
> I truly don’t get how sites like udacity are able to sell thousands of amateurish introductions to various trends
1. People read that some trend gets you jobs.
2. People don't have the discipline or enough foundation to just buy the $12 book and learn trend by themselves.
3. People find a course online that is really basic and thus doesn't tax their mental resources while convincing them they'll be able to get job later in the trend.
4. People get job, or they don't (I bet they don't, since having low learning capacity isn't a good predictor for getting a job in an intellectual field), either way Udacity gets paid.
It's not a bad business model, but eventually it will collapse because customers routinely fail to obtain the key value proposition: tech skills or a job using them.
Sure, but that's a tiny minority of people.
If you have the capacity to complete deep CS courses, you can buy a book for $12 and learn React or Angular or any technology you want.
Most people don't have this capacity.
> I truly don’t get how sites like udacity are able to sell thousands of amateurish introductions to various trends
1. People read that some trend gets you jobs.
2. People don't have the discipline or enough foundation to just buy the $12 book and learn trend by themselves.
3. People find a course online that is really basic and thus doesn't tax their mental resources while convincing them they'll be able to get job later in the trend.
4. People get job, or they don't (I bet they don't, since having low learning capacity isn't a good predictor for getting a job in an intellectual field), either way Udacity gets paid.
It's not a bad business model, but eventually it will collapse because customers routinely fail to obtain the key value proposition: tech skills or a job using them.