The Advanced Web Developer Bootcamp (Udemy.com)

This was a great course and I have learned an incredible amount. I'm sorry I've taken it so long after it was published, but even with dated information it has been very valuable. I would have hoped that you would map out the warbler structure a little bit when you are building the framework and explain the way and why the components are structured a little better. I see that you throw it together very quickly and it is very difficult to follow where you are jumping to. Elie doesn't let things sit on the screen at all before he is off to the next thing. Other than that I really love the process and thoroughness in the class. The last third is definitely rushed though.

Overall the course is very, very good - section 5 ( Building a Startup Site ) was a complete write-off for me which is why I've not given 5 stars, I almost stopped the course when the sudden jolt to 'someone reading from a script' occurred. Thankfully if you ignore that section it gets a lot better (not easier!) fairly soon. The 'Testing with Jasmine' section was a bit of a let down (mainly that it wasn't used further on) but I'm nit picking here. The section on Redux is brilliant, React is covered thoroughly and the final project puts it all into action. I'd actually love it if the final project could have taken it's time a little more - you have to do quite a bit of reading around it, as due to the scale of the app it *almost* feels a bit rushed, despite there being almost 4 hours of video! Would definitely recommend this course - now looking for the next React / Redux course to take it further.

Web developer bootcamp and this course should be a package for anyone wanting to be developer.This course is huge. So instructors do the right thing to let us study additional topics. So my advice to anyone taking this course is to practice and study. Colt, Elie, Matt, Tim all are wonderful instructors and they all have their unique style of teaching. Thanks for this long and wonderful course..

This course was supposed to build on the other great course by Colt and give in-depth understanding of complex stuff. I like the approach where we learn by doing things. Unfortunately some of the sections are not like this. The advanced javascript part is very very difficult to follow because there are few examples and the explanations are not very practical and they are very often the definitions of the functions. It would have been good to build small projects using the advanced javascript techniques. Unfortunately the D3 and SVG part was also difficult to follow. Instead of giving me the opportunity to get practice by using patterns again and again I got assignments with no clue as to how to solve them. I got a little frustrated about that. The D3 videos looked like they were originally longer but someone asked the instructor to shorten them. There is very little time for processing all the information that is poured on us. All the code is typed at a lightning speed. The React part is much better so far. The teaching style is much closer to that of Colt. I am looking forward to the rest of this course. The Warbler part at the end is fantastic. I want to watch more courses like this!! Now I fully understand the concepts and I can follow what is happening. The deploying part was fun.

Amazing course. Very detailed and thorough in its presentation. The course instructors take good care to go through each topic methodically and connect them in the natural and correct order. The course covers everything a modern full-stack web developer can be expected to know starting out. Would recommend.

Really got some good points here from experienced teachers, so that the learning curve on my end wasn't as steep if I were to just start googling things. Well worth the price that they are asking, quick to respond to any answers, and they even updated the lesson plan to include some more sections on React. Very happy with everything that I learned from this course.

The course is very great! Especially the parts about ES6+. I can only recommend getting it if you want to learn modern Javascript. Even the React parts are mostly good. Unfortunately it seems like there are lessons missing in the parts about React Router and React Redux. Also some of the solutions are up to date with the current state of React (e.g. they don't use class properties, but constructor).

This course consists of many different concepts and as such it's very comprehensive. Because of this there are four different instructors and it seems like they have different teaching styles so it may be hard to learn from one instructor if you are learning from another. For my review I'm going to break it down into the different sections taught by this course. Advanced CSS This section is great, Colt does a great job explaining flexbox and css animation are explained pretty good. Coming out of this I feel somewhat comfortable with the material learned. AJAX + Async Again great explanations. There are different real-world implementations to different Ajax calls. The pace is not too fast and pretty easy to follow. There is later a single page application with mongo / node / express and jquery (ajax) to further nail down why and how this works in a real world scenario. ES2015 +, Advanced Javascript (Closures, this, OOP), Advanced Array functions Loved this section. It really explained some new functionality in JS well. The concepts like closures, this, OOP explained by Ellie are great. These sections include many quizzes which help you test your knowledge. Testing with Jasmine This section is rushed and feels incomplete. There were no real world examples in this section. This section exposed me to jasminse for the first time, but I feel if I were to do any testing I would have to start from scratch and research how to do the testing from some other source. D3 The D3 section is somewhat rushed. There is some explanation but it is not detailed and it is hard to follow. I have a hard time keeping up with Matt as he is a obviously some kind of human genius that has a mind of mathematician. Overall the way this section is done is that Matt obviously recorded himself typing code and then added voice over later. This is not my preferred teaching style as the explanation is very minimal since Matt is attempting to keep the voice in sync with the typing. There is little conceptual exploitation instead he's just explaining code. React I left this out to last. The React section is pretty rushed. They finally added a full stack application, a twitter clone and that was good to go through but Ellie kind of rushes through the React sections. In many cases it's just rushed and not enough explanation is given. React is a great library and should be covered more thoroughly, although this isn't a React specific course so I'm ok with the content.

Good course to cover everything you missed these days about new JS technologies. However, no comparison to previous Developer Bootcamp by Colt Steele. Comparing to previous Colt's course here we can experience a lack of explanation and robot-like voice-over of the videos. I consider this a good motivation to look-up information while going through the course for better understanding. The first edition seemed to me very game-like while this appears to be the sum of all the stuff out there you need to put in your head. Colt's explanations seem natural as you'd expect when someone in real life teaches you something but other lecturers just recorded voice-over from an already prepared text. The lack of personal opinion and thoughts on the material of the course make it boring and dry sometimes but I can live with it if the material only is of interest. Probably the most awkward moments of the course are recordings with course members on the green-screen in the back reading the script very odd, they don't even blink sometimes! You can also notice some books about web-dev stuff placed very fake and many more. Don't get me wrong—I admire Colt's work and consider him a good instructor. The course materials are relevant and fresh and I would recommend this series to everyone. Still, the value you get for this price is beyond expectation and is the most effective way to learn things. The only purpose of this review is to give a notice that the more natural instructors behave the more enjoyable and friendly learning environment they create for their students. Thanks for the course and can't wait for future Bootcamps!

This is a great course that covers a lot of essentials, and I've finished it feeling confident that I can work effectively with react and redux. My only cons would be: I often find myself wishing the instructors had taken more time to explain certain things, like the various react libraries at the end; Elie moves a little too fast for me (I exclusively follow his lectures with speed set to .75); the instructors don't respond to Q&A as much as I'd like. But for a course that I think I paid $20 for, none of this is a real deal-breaker, and I still recommend this to anyone who wants to advance themselves.