Node, SQL, & PostgreSQL - Mastering Backend Web Development (Udemy.com)

Good course, nice pacing as it progresses. Short and sweet, a concise run through the basics. And I liked David Katz's instruction. There aren't many offerings on here about NodeJS and PostgreSQL. Too bad this course is at least five years old. Not sure what was supposedly updated in Oct 2022, because the JS, Node, and PG are all outdated. Also, it would have been nice, instead of sometimes staring at Katz's blank command terminal while he explains things early in the course, if some slides were created to illustrate the concepts he's talking about. Lastly, the title should read "introduction to" or "for beginners," not "mastering," because no one is going to master anything in five hours. All that said, if this course was rebuilt from scratch with more modern techniques, I would look forward to retaking it.

This course while informative needs to be re-visited and cleaned up. There aren't many courses like it on Udemy so I did get a bit out of it. Lessons over ten minutes can be divided, errors caught in recording can be addressed instead of played off as learning opportunities, and the general structure could be greatly improved. There is a lot of gems in this course but the material is in dire need of a re-work. Some restructuring based on customer feedback would be of great help to the overall learnability of this course. This is a great first draft and I appreciate what I got out of it but it needs more TLC and thought.

Outdated

not what I expected at all. I hope that more big project to do.

No explanation on object destructuring. Would be good to see what is inside the express.router() to understand why the express object has a router function in it and what's actually inside to understand the mechanics of why it works. Right now, a lot of the concepts are still quite 'magical', don't know how it actually works at the base level. Also, should try and incorporate code breaking a lot more to understand why some syntaxes are so important.

Misleading and badly taught. This was NOT an "All Levels" course - you must have lots of experience with Javascript, JSON, Postman, Visual Studio, etc. This is a "type this type this type this okay moving on type this type this..." course at breakneck speed - NO explanation of what's going on, what the code is doing. In nearly every lecture, the code does not work and I had to ask questions to get it to run. I had to stop and rewind each lecture a dozen times because the instructor speaks so very fast with poor annunciation. And then I had to pause each lecture a dozen times just to look up concepts that he doesn't explain. And, in the end, he never actually tell you how to connect a website to a PostgreSQL database. Don't waste your money.

too outdated to be useful. It should be removed.

Overall, I liked the course - but it would be nice if there was a little more help with the windows part of it. Mainly, I was unable to get the database set up through the code and had to use pgAdmin to get it set up. After that, everything worked.

great teacher, very engaged and helpful tone, smart explanations. Only some spelling errors in the slides.

I learned alot .

This course guided me practically through hands on and like his approach.

So far so good!