This post is about the site egghead.io, which is a video training website about mostly javascript and angular but also some advanced and obscure javascript topics. I was looking for this exact training. I really wanted to learn Angular 1 and 2. I was also interested in everything javascript, what exactly gulp was (and how to use it), and of course server scripts with node. If you are into these things too, beware! Although I like this site a lot and it's awesome training, you might end up spending more time and money here than you originally planned!
Affordably Priced
There are a few free videos, but if you want the real deal then you have to start paying. They make it pretty simple. It's either $20 a month or a year for $170 (~$14 a month). I figured, "Well, I'll just pay for a month and go hardcore into it, watch all the videos, and then cancel". There's only one problem with that plan- there are too many video that you really want to watch!
A Whole Lot of Good Content
If you want to learn Javascript and Angular.js then this is the place to be. There are over 700 videos on the site, and over 250 of them just on Angular 1.X from starting out to making full applications to addressing specific gotchas. $20 a month adds up, and with all these videos I might be a pro member for quite few months!
More Comfortable Than Youtube
If I'm watching Angular videos but not on egghead.io then I'm almost surely on Youtube. I prefer egghead for a few reasons:
- No commercials on egghead. Obvious advantage.
- Adjustable speed on egghead. It's nice to be able to watch a video faster, especially if you've seen it before.
- More playlist videos on egghead that flow together and go step-by-step through doing something. This keeps videos short and allows you to go back and find specific parts.
- Overall much more in-depth, actually coding this-is-how-you-do-it style on egghead. Most egghead videos are screencasts of the code IDE the whole time showing you the code whereas youtube searching "angular" could bring up talks, presentations, and all kinds of things that are just vague slideshows about a programming concept instead of just doing it.
- Egghead gives you code too, not just videos. Although I'm sure some youtube videos have links to the code hosted somewhere, almost all (maybe all, at least the 10-20 I've watched so far) of the videos on egghead have source code to go along with them.
You Have Been Warned!
Egghead.io is hours and hours and hours of the top developers sitting down and teaching you at your own pace. At $20 a month, it's affordable enough to "give it a shot", but expensive enough that I don't really want to be paying for it month after month if I'm not going to watch the videos and really try to build stuff in Javascript. If you a really serious about getting into Javascript and Angular then I'd definitely recommend dropping 20 bucks to take a look at what they have to offer. But beware, as the months go by you might still not want to leave. :)
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