Spring Framework 5: Beginner to Guru (Udemy.com)

This is a highly disappointing course. While I understand the instructor is currently updating the content to Spring Boot 4 and Spring Framework 7, the training itself feels completely disorganized. There is no clear learning path; the instructor leaves critical concepts unexplained and constantly jumps back and forth between different topics, making it very difficult to follow.

I don't want to pre-judge but till now I don't feel like i'm getting the concept the way the instructor explains does not match maybe with my understanding but I will continue to see what's next. I trusted the instructor because of the interest he showed to his students on this platform and he was right the way he explains at the beginning may seem not the best as a beginner in spring framework, but the experience he has truly shows I am really happy with the level of info I have now I will keep going till the end of the course to see the final result, the only thing that may be better is the tonality of the instructors voice, to be more engaging.

A very good match! I learnt a lot, the course is very consistent, well-organised and goes above the target. I learnt far more than expected and i feel more confident for Spring projects now. If i can make a suggestion, it will be concerning the US english accent of the teacher. I will suggest him to speak distinctly for us to better hear his words. I'm not an english native speaker, so it can sometimes be hard to get his point, hopefully i can use the Udemy transcript feature to get what he's trying to say. I enjoyed this course so much that i bought many others John Thompson's courses on Udemy. Thank for sharing the knowledge, keep up the good work!

Great course!

Very good in detail explanation on how to create spring project.

Great explanation so far! I think that at the end of the course I will be a Spring Framework Guru :)

Although the course went very indepth and well into spring. It was far too bloated, the course could easily be cut to 30 hours. It was very jumpy towards the end of the course and I had to spend more time wonder what was added to projects rather than coding. He spent a lot of time also on old practices using Thymeleaf a lot and writing HTML with Java rather than the common industry standard of writing apis and using react or angular to display them.
Focus more in the future for creating modern applications using a javascript library for the front end with a spring boot backend and focus more on using mongo, docker etc.
Ended up overall skipping 10 - 20 hours of unnecessary work compared to what I use in my workplace. Course definitely needs refining and would suggest looking at modern job adverts to see what employers use spring for. Too broad of a course and teaches many useless parts. Good instructor, poor delivery

John is a very good tutor, very knowledgeable of Spring Framework. I liked that he explained in detail everything through developing code and showed a lot of examples. Sometimes too many copy paste which he points it should be avoided but the tutor has to show you the right way. I think also that the course was a little bit over extended in some parts and i would prefer to see a section with separate Front - End (like React or View) rather than thymeleaf which is a little bit out of fashion in my opinion. In conclusion a very good course with a very good Tutor everyone should do if wants to learn Spring in Detail!!

Mixed feelings. The course content is very interesting and there is a lot to learn (Personally I learned a lot of things from it) but some sections are outdated and some topics are briefly touched or discussed with the impression that people already know the subject so the instructor goes very fast .
Also, I didn't like when the instructor reviews the code alone and then explains it, this is not good for the learners !
Didn't like the copy/past from sprint pet clinic I would have preferred building another simple app from scratch rather than building and copying things from an existing project.
Why keeping tin the course deprecated modules ?
Two topics that are never discussed are: Spring Security and login and this is strange

Pros:
- Covers a large amount of subjects, and exposing you to many technologies and methodologies relevant in the industry today.
- I liked the slides presented when a new technology is introduced. They cover some historical aspects of it and overall information which are clear and interesting.
- Instructor is pretty clear and organized.
Cons:
- Some videos contain errors in the code, which are either fixed in following videos (why waste my time and not fix the original video?) or not at all.
- Sections on reactive programming are basically all wrong, as mentioned and approved by a teaching assistant in the Q&A - the code blocks! (basically forbidden in reactive programming)
- I feel like the same amount of content could be presented and explained as well in less words and a shorter course.
Notes:
- It is said the course is about the spring frame work (version 5) in general, but it focuses on spring boot, and to this day I don't know how much of the content is relevant when not using spring boot.
- Basically just "scratches the surface" of any subject taught. Don't expect to be a master in spring after this course.
- Even though long and just scratching the surface, does not cover all of the modules of the spring framework, for example spring security and spring integration.
- Most assignments are very easy. Don't count on them for a moderate/challenging practice.
- I recommend this course mostly for computer science graduates looking to set foot in the industry as Java/backend developers. As the content emphasizes more on variety of content and less on depth, they will benefit the most.
Tip - Go over the Q&A of every video - some student and teaching assistant comments are just gold that should've been part of the videos themselves.

great tips so far

hard to follow , kind of disorganized.