.NET 7 Web API & Entity Framework Jumpstart (Udemy.com)

At first I was fairly satisfied with the course. However, it got very frustrating and confusing when it came to authentication, which is a quite complex topic. The lessons are well-structured but there's almost no explanation to anything. Patrick is jumping from tab to tab doing stuff giving only some vague explanations: no hints, no advices, no elaboration on anything. Don't get me wrong I am not expecting a university-level lecture but I expected at least a bit more than the actual contents. I am going to finish the course but i am just diappointed. At least I got some waypoints for further learning. Best regards!

Excellent course. The focus on best practice is really helpful if you actually want to get started developing real applications. My only complaint would be this is not a 22hr course. It's around 5-6hrs the rest of the time being previous versions of the course. This seems to happen a lot now on Udemy so I think it's need addressing there, i.e. have 2 values one for the complete course and another for past and most likely out of date content.

One of the best instructionial videos I've watched! He went through everything starting from the beginning and then building onto what he did...including showing errors that may come up during development and what they mean. If you are new to Web Api's or a little rusty and want to refresh your skills, I couldn't recommend this course enough!!

The authentication process was really hard to follow. Even with a "bear it with me", having extremely little explanation about the sheer amount of information to be processed is extremely disappointing. I felt like I had to page dr.google to learn more about JWT, "headers", tokens, ClaimsPrincpal -- adding a visual graph to properly illustrate how all of these mechanisms fit together would be a life saver, rather than *assume* that the student knows wtf is going on here. Also, worse of all -- this line of code: builder.Services.AddSwaggerGen(c => { c.AddSecurityDefinition("oauth2", new OpenApiSecurityScheme { .... The authentication process does not work, UNLESS you provide the name "oauth2". And the host just arbitrarily said: "ah yeah let's just give it the name oauth2..." as if it's completely arbitrary. No. The NAME is hardwired with functions, yet the student can only assume it's just some string, a name you give it. Worse of all, it's hard to find online WHY oauth2 is an important string, other than: "it's hardcoded as a reference for OpenApiScheme.OpenApiRefernece." Whatever that means. This course provides a nice intro into .NET Core, but so much of it is practical, just copy-paste code, rather than theoretical -- actually understanding wtf we're typing and why. Someone who only knows C#, but nothing about web, would find this course to be extremely confusing.

The instructor builds the application from the simplest approach possible, and then increases its complexity as he goes. That's the way a course should be taught - no magic command lines and unecessary complexity. I really found entertaining to learn by using the concept of a RPG game. Kudos to the instructor, and hope to see new courses from him in the future.

The course was good. I learned a lot about Web API. But I will rate course with 4 stars, because the course contains 2 parts: NET 5 and NET 3.1. You wrote same code in the second part. I only watched first part and skipped 3.1 part, because it was almost same with first part.

Great learning reference. All of the incremental code changes for each videos work. The code has sufficient complexity to show key functionalities, yet simple to minimize unnecessary confusion. I like the way Patrick points out potential problems, which are expected in a real production project, walks through the codes that create the problems, explains why and provides options to address the issue. Most of all, I appreciate Patrick keeping up with the latest, and updated the course content without breaking the codes like in quite a few other authors.

Build WEP API step by step

I really appreciate how this course is targeted to just the backend and uses Postman to interact with the API. I feel like I am getting way more out of this course than I would with all of the context switching that is required from working full stack. Even though this is a short course, it is a good deep dive into Web API.

excellent

Great course. I've learned a lot for Authentication and JWT.

El contenido es muy bueno ya que emplea conceptos muy usados en varios aspetos dentro del desarrollo de aplicaciones