5 thoughts on “Full Stack Web Development Course – Sneak Peak

  1. It’s difficult to judge without knowing where in the course this course preview video sits, but the instructor wasn’t really ‘explaining’ what he was doing. He was mainly just ‘showing’ what he was doing which would leave a student not ‘understanding’ WHY he’s doing it.

    The instructor saying at the start of the video “If you don’t have MongoDB go and get it and set it up. . .” without showing ‘where’ to get it or ‘how’ to set it up left me concerned that the course might lack structure. Surely in a structured course the instructor would know whether the student HAS the tools for the lesson yet.

    It’s definitely the kind of course I’d be interested in but having taken other courses which had too many assumptions and omissions there were a couple of ‘alarm bells’ going off while watching the preview video. It’s often the little assumptions and lack of full explanations that become the big stumbling blocks in ‘distance/online’ learning material.

    Not trying to be negative, just honest feedback from a potential student who’s experienced the ‘good’ and the ‘not so good’ sides of online courses.

    1. @Bob … thank you. As a potential student, I was wondering if this was an issue with this offering. Looks like the instructors have a lot of work to do, yet.

    2. This is the first project. It looks like he is going through the solution. Before this first project you must have the lessons needed to understand what is he is talking about. As he says there is a section on MongoDB, if you go to that section he explains how to set it up. Also there is something called Google Search. The first link you will find is the MongoDB site, If you click on it you’ll find instructions on how to install MongoDB. To save you some time, here’s the link: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/installation/
      PS Don’t judge a book by its cover 🙂

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