Paid $60 for a coding bootcamp intro course and they just taught me how to install Python

I thought I was getting actual coding lessons, but the first two hours were literally just watching the instructor download and set up tools I already had. Has anyone else gotten burned on those starter courses that promise way more than they deliver?

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skylerrobinson26d ago

That happened to me with a web dev starter course last year. Paid $50 and spent the whole first session setting up VS Code and a GitHub account. I learned way more from free YouTube tutorials where people actually code from scratch. Ended up finding a free full course on YouTube that covered the same stuff in half the time with way more projects. Ngl those paid intros are basically just charging you for what you could Google in 10 minutes.

kelly_craig26d ago

Honestly that's the biggest scam in the tech education world right now. Paying $50 to watch someone install VS Code and create a GitHub repo is wild when you can literally bang that out in 10 minutes with a quick search. Tbh those paid courses prey on people who don't know any better and think paying money means better quality. I'd rather watch a 3 hour free bootcamp on YouTube where the creator actually builds something useful than sit through a paid "intro" that teaches me how to use a text editor. Ngl it's basically paying for a fancy PDF of the first chapter of a free book.