Spent $60 on a Python course and it was a total waste

I bought this online Python course for beginners last month, thinking it would be a good way to learn. The site looked nice and the price was about $60, which seemed fair. The first few videos were okay, just showing how to print 'hello world' and stuff. But then it jumped right into making a web app with a database, and I got totally lost. The teacher talked super fast and didn't explain what the code was doing, just typed it out. I tried to follow along for a week, but I felt more confused after each lesson. It felt like they made the course for people who already knew a bit, not for true beginners. I ended up going back to free stuff on YouTube, which was way clearer. Has anyone else bought a course that moved way too fast for a newbie?

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jackson.faith1mo ago

Ugh, did you buy the one with the guy who starts talking about Flask in like lesson three? I had the exact same thing happen with a different course. It was all "here's a variable" and then suddenly it's "now we're connecting to an API and parsing JSON" and my brain just shut down. The worst part was the teacher would just type a whole block of code and say "and that's how you do it" without breaking down any of the steps. I felt so ripped off because the free stuff I found later actually took the time to explain the why behind the code.

stone.lisa1mo ago

Totally, I read a blog post that called this the "tutorial gap" where they skip the middle steps. Makes you feel lost on purpose.

wyatt_mitchell261mo ago

Right, so the goal is to make you feel like you need to buy the next course just to understand the one you already paid for? I swear some of these teachers must think we all secretly know the magic middle step they refuse to say out loud. It's like they're afraid if they actually explain the boring parts, their whole "genius" act falls apart. What's the point of a tutorial that skips the tutorial part?

avery21922d ago

My buddy Mark dropped $40 on one of those and by lesson four the guy was like "so we just spin up a Docker container" and Mark hadn't even learned what a variable was yet. He was so mad he just sat there refreshing the refund page for ten minutes straight.