Advanced programming with Visual Basic .Net (Udemy.com)

This is a free, short set of VB.NET demonstrations from Samah Mohamed Osman Hassan, an assistant professor with a background in education. The syllabus shows 14 lectures across four sections, about 1.9 hours in total, with no quizzes, exercises or certificate. Despite the word advanced in the title, the course itself asks only for a good grasp of basic VB.NET concepts, and reviewers say that is exactly the level it pitches at. Treat it as a follow-on to a beginner course, not as the expert-level material the name suggests.

Students who liked it praise the clear voice and the straightforward demonstrations, and one says they learned plenty from the sessions. The criticism is consistent and worth taking seriously. Several three-star reviewers say it is not advanced, one calling it intermediate at best, that many important topics are simply missing, and that the code on screen is sometimes messy and contains mistakes. The rating breakdown backs that up: 60 of 139 reviews are five stars, but 30 are three stars and 15 are one or two. The course was last updated in October 2020, so nothing has been refreshed since.

It costs nothing, which changes the calculation. Next to the beginner courses it sits beside, this one is more of a quick supplement: watch it in an afternoon after finishing an introduction and you get a handful of worked examples for free. If advanced VB.NET is what you actually need, though, the reviews are clear that this is not it, and the title is the main reason people walk away disappointed.