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Amazing content great learning tools. Boot.dev is amazing.

Boot.dev helped me start my software engineering journey. The gamified format keeps me motivated. I subscribed during a Black Friday sale at 50% off for one year. The subscription has been worth it. I like how the program is structured. I chose the Backend Developer path in Go. TypeScript is also an option. The path covers many skills in order: CLI fundamentals in Linux, projects in Python, memory management in C, HTTP clients and servers, database management in SQL, cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP, Docker containers, distributed services with RabbitMQ, Git, and data structures and algorithms. I recommend Boot.dev to anyone starting a career in software engineering.

Just completed Python Beginer course on Boot.dev , my experience has been amazing, Interface and support has been great till now.

The first website where you actually learn to code through practice every lesson instead of watching someone else code.

I think they offer some version of this site for free...and I paid for it any way because it's so good. They make putting in my coding reps easy. Except C...never C. But everything else was great.

I have a little bit of experience in programming, like two semesters of intro to java levels of experience plus a career's worth of PowerShell scripting as a sysadmin. Boot.Dev really helps to take the edge off of learning the core concepts and wraps it all in interesting examples that are consistent throughout each course. You may be creating code as part of a fantasy RTS game in the object oriented programming course, or working on a document conversion program while learning functional programming. To be clear you never actually create these programs, they are used as a consistent frame to learn within each course. I found this approach really good and often added a layer of fun to sometimes frustrating content (after all it is more fun to create a dragon firebreath function while learning how to work with cartesian coordinates within a class than to work on some generic function with just dummy names for everything). My biggest gripe is that the project courses really hold your hand a lot. Creating an asteroids clone was fun, and it was really great to put together everything you've learned into something that works, but there are situations where entire classes are just given to you instead of teaching you how to do certain things (which to be fair is in many cases because the goal is to demonstrate OOP concepts, not learn pygame). Overall, learning programming concepts are hard, or at least are not always easy, so many of the lessons are indeed difficult. The instructions sometimes require you to think about what is being asked of you to accomplish, but so far I have found everything generally straightforward in terms of what I was trying to accomplish for each lesson. The key though is that nothing can just make you know programming, you have to learn it which means you will have to put in effort, it is going to be difficult, and there will be times you are not loving the process. But Boot.Dev does a great job at making things bite sized and approachable, providing tools to help when you get stuck without handing you the answers. There are good resources for creating essentially endless practice lessons, though they are created through Generative AI so they are sometimes not as straightforward as the main lessons which is worth being aware of.

Boot.dev is a phenomenal place to learn how to become a programmer. Each course is carefully crafted and couples theory with hands-on practice. The community is vibrant and filled with enthusiastic learners. Simply put, I've been a member since before it has exploded in popularity and one thing has never changed: these guys CARE about their students.

I do the course every day and it’s the first coding course that hooked me, it made me really interested about the word and the possibilities of programming. Can’t recommend enough