If I just watch the videos the lessons do not stick in my mind. However it does take the time specified.
The easiest way to pass your tests is to take notes during the video and then answer the quiz from the notes. However several of the answers are now wrong in the latest version of the software.
Giving the correct answers from the latest software loses me points. So doing the examples during the video is often pointless as it just confuses the course with versioning issues.
Even if the course is with the latest version and I am doing a 5 hour course and it takes me 15 hours to complete there are often details from the beginning of the course I have forgotten by the end of it.
So I need to take notes and do it in two stages.
When I try to do the exercises I waste hours and on occassion over a day to get them working with the latest software VS 2015 and EF 6 and SQL Express 2014 and occasionally I cannot do them at all as there are just too many differences.
This often doubles or triples the length of the course. However once completed the excercise from my notes and my knowledge of the latest version I do get a useful grounding in the lesson.
Occasionally, I get stuck in the exercises and because of the differences in environment I cannot spot where my mistake is and I do not want to waste your time with issues that are often stupid typos.
e.g. I am too used to XML rather than http and you should see the bizarre effects you can get:
if instead of writing < i glyphicon glypohicon-world > < / i > you write < i glyphicon glypohicon-world / > In my instance I only got 5 distinct instances of the icon instead of the expected 1.
However, comparing the after code with my code did spot that particular issue. Sometimes they do not. So overall a useful way of learning new skills but not perfect.
Please keep improving your courses.
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