Dotfiles from Start to Finish-ish (Udemy.com)

This is the best course I've ever taken on Udemy. Not only will you learn how to backup and restore your mac with all your apps, settings, and configurations, but you will learn the command line, visual studio code, git and github, and much more. He obviously spent an inordinate amount of time creating this course yet few students actually purchased it. Udemy should hire him full time as an instructor. Excellent work.

It's not even half the course and I feel like I've learned things I never would have spent the time to learn on my own. I loved that he includes useful tips about CLI commands and techniques. I highly recommend this course to anyone who's looking to improve their digital workspace hygiene or simply wants to understand the environment which makes up their work processes as a developer.

This is an excellent course and where you will learn alot. This is only the first of three parts but I now have a good grasp of the foundations that I am not afraid of reading man pages and other technical material. Patrick certainly knows his stuff but what makes him great is his skill as a great teacher where you follow him along, learning as you go and building your understanding and that "I get it" feeling.

The course was very informative and at times it was over my head. Patrick is an excellent teacher. The reason for the four stars is that it is unfinished and I will update this review if / when the course is updated. I purchased this course thinking that I would learn how to move dot files, sym link them AND finally make them disappear from the home directory. I am looking forward to the updated course

This is a fantastic course. Patricks explanations are exceptionally clear and well considered. I took a punt on this course as I wasn't really sure how useful it would be, but it turned out to be a rock solid roundup of many core concepts, shell-scripting, variables, customisations, aliases, Git & Github, Homebrew and automation, Node, etc. Thanks Patrick, if you do make the future installments, then I will buy them.

Maybe I'm biased because I started with the same setting: MacOS, ZSH, VSC, etc, but this course is gold. I'm about to get a new Mac and one of my nightmares is to figure out how to replicate my current settings on my new machine. This answers most of my questions, and I cannot wait for the upcoming instalments. Hopefully Patrick would consider adding to the package other settings, such as VS Code settings.json, extensions, etc. Looking forward to all that and more surprises. I also enjoyed Patrick's particular sense of humour. This course is a solid 5/5!

This was a very great and well-structured course from start to finish. I had just switched over from Windows to MacOS and this course definitely helped with easing that transition. Not only that, I loved the way the commands were broken down into little bits and pieces. Very useful for beginners to the CLI! Occasionally, the editing would be a bit off-putting, but it is definitely getting better in the recent videos, so kudos to that! Overall, this course was more than satisfactory for my needs, and even taught me more than what I wanted to know. Keep up the great work, looking forward to more content from you in the future!!

I’ve spent four years in a top notch university learning computer science and engineering, yet this one course has taught me more about my system, shell, git, GitHub, Homebrew, and so many other essential programs. I’ve gone as far as telling my fraternity brothers to share this course with any aspiring CS or CE majors we meet because it is such a primer on the bare essentials of source control, command line, and basic understanding of the different file types and programs in one’s computer. I definitely am looking forward to the next installments of this series. Please keep doing awesome workPatrick.

This such a brilliantly organized course. The pacing is perfect. It unfolds in such a way that I end up learning things I didn't mean to. Over the years I've learned the terminal, git, and macOS configuration in a very haphazard way -- often through copy-and-paste tutorials that were in disagreement. (I would have no idea of the disagreements until my machine threw some cryptic error a week or a month later.) I'm deep into this course now and for the first time I can feel the ground under my feet as I live more and more in the terminal and start to feel the protection and relief of a thoughtful dotfiles system. So grateful!

automating macOS preference is what attracted me to purchase, the course, but seems it was not included in the first part of the course and dunno how long will I need to wait til the second and third installment to come