Angular - Concepts, Code and Collective Wisdom (Udemy.com)

Detail of Slides and Quizes is impressive. Where this falls down is the isntructor provides "Resources" for you to look at and uses Plunker for demos. Basically it is saying, hey here is some code, I will explain it, and now its on you to somehow translate that to coding from scratch. Other presentations I have seen take the student through the code, coding step by step incrementially. This helps learning. If the course is just slides and figure out the code, you can get that on youtube for free.

All the diagrams are very helpful. And the instructor covers a lot more details on the change detection topic. Now I have a much better understanding how angular change detection actually works. The other topic I find helpful is how components interact with each other with @Input() and @Output(). With the diagram on this particular topic, I have a clear mental picture how the data flows. I find the instructor did a really good job on explaining all these crucial fundamental concepts.

At first I was a bit skeptical about this being an outdated course regarding current version of angular but right after I finished it I understood that everything you learn in this course applies to newer versions of Angular too. I did learn a lot more that I expected and I'm grateful. Mark's very experienced and does a great job explaining all concepts and I really like that the provides links to the all resources mention. I'd like to see more real world examples where all this can be applied but the main focus is on the angular concepts so it's fine. Maybe if you updated this course, if you just provide real word examples links, articles. That'd be perfect. Thank you very much Mark.

I think the course is very professional. I love the fact that it shows you what goes on behind the scenes, and that it is aimed to developers who have done a thing or two :). A lot of the courses assume you have no knowledge of client-side application development concepts, and become too tiring pretty fast. I did not feel this way with this course. However, since the videos are not up-to-date, I sometime found it confusing, and uncertain if the what I've been shown is still relevant. I would have love it if a slide was added to explain the "subtle" changes that the CD went through after this course was created, a slide about modules, a slide about the changes to DI with modules in the picture, etc. I think that this is a good starting point, but anyone taking this course should be aware to the fact they would need to find other resources for Modules, Routing, Pipes and maybe more.

Finally! Some explanation of the seemingly sacred-gnossis that is Angular jargon. I've taken several tutorials and read books on Angular, and while they'll show you how to use FormControl and bind a class they won't explain in any depth how change detection really works or what any of the built-in classes like ContentChildren or Renderer2 do or how to utilize them. I now know what I'm looking at when I read through the code of an Angular component or library on GitHub. Angular's documentation sure isn't going to tell you much about what its code does.

This was definitely a useful Udemy course on Angular. However, some important topics were not covered, so I took one star off. Below is a list of topics that were not covered: - Setting up a development environment and the first (very simple) project written by hand. IDE options, Typescript/Angular feature support, pros/cons. - Bundling and minification under the hood (npm or otherwise), creating and navigating source maps (debugging in production). - Real world unit testing with dependency injection (without changing the source files). - Real world app using best practices: for example, MVC back end, Angular front end, basic forms data and validation, next/prev page and persistence using services. EDIT: added 1 star back for the recent content update. Thanks for giving a quick tour on rxjs, Mark!

Good course if you are a complete beginner. But as the title says collective wisdom, it didn't fulfill my expectation. Most courses on Udemy wont completely cover Route guards, Reactive programming, Observables or more deeper Angular concepts and yes this course as well did not cover any of those. Plus the author is not active enough on discussion, I got my reply after 3 months. Good course only if you are new, not a course if you are looking to master any concepts.

Clearest explanation of core concepts I've seen thus far. Mark breaks down the concepts in a slow and one-by-one manner. His experience of answering common questions is obvious as he is quick to point out the common errors one might make new to the framework. The associated diagrams during a lecture are great (some instructors just talk on and on blankly which is hard to follow). And the quizzes are a great little checkpoint to reinforce and make sure you understood. Hope to see more from you Mark!

This course was great discovery for me. Before taking it, I was already quite familiar with Angular 2. But still, course provided me with huge amount of useful informations, and clear, to-the-point explanations of not so much understood Angular 2 concepts. I think any serious Angular 2 developer can get great benefits from taking this course. Be aware that course material can be overwhelming sometimes, so it is not unusual to look at some lectures more than once to understand everything. In my opinion, course is not suitable for developers which want to write their very first Angular 2 app. However, when they do familiarize them selfs with Angular 2, they should really take this course to deepen and fortify the knowledge about the framework. In a single place, course explains things about the framework which are very hard to find elsewhere. Furthermore, many additional resources are provided for further learning, which are not only useful by them selfs, but also introduce attendees to the, already vast, Angular 2 ecosystem.

This is truly a fantastic course, it is very well thought out and delivered. I have completed many courses and tutorials and there are a lot of good ones out there, but this was the first course that I felt really explained the framework, concepts and best practices. There are many things in this course that I learnt to do in other courses but never really understood why, Mark traverses that gap in a very structured and clear way. Some examples of this include change detection, why we need to use providers and how they work etc. He also steps outside of the framework to explain the resources available and how to use those resources. His combination of theory and explaining things with diagrams and then following up with clear coding examples really makes a difference in this course. To be honest I will need to review parts of the course again because there is so much good content in here, I could not take it all in the first time through. I would highly recommend this course to anyone that is looking to learn Angular2.