Angular 2 & TypeScript Beginner Web Development

Genuine instructor with a different style of teaching. It's funny and extremely thorough. I think it is invaluable from this aspect. Definitely a must-enroll.

Just finished the course and I had a good time and feel like I learned a lot (while also feeling that I need to learn a lot more). Instructor: Jess is great, he's charismatic and fun to listen to and you can tell he does his best to explain things and keep it interesting. Some of the explanations I had a hard time following but that's probably a problem on my end. Content: - A section on getting started on GitHub/BitBucket would be nice. While I'm sure there are many advanced level people taking the course I think there are probably as many or more beginners taking it. Since we go through how to pull down code using BitBucket it would be nice to also have a video on how to set it up as well. - Solutions to exercises. I think doing the exercises that Jess puts in are important in solidifying the concepts in your mind. I'm especially like this: I won't understand it as its explained until I put it in and practice it many, many, many times. It would be nice however if Jess included another video with the solution to the exercise to show at least one way to accomplish it. While doing the exercises is important they can also be tough and sometimes folks need a little help as they learn, and I think having a separate video with some solutions to those tasks would be useful to them. Even a person who solved the challenge might benefit from it as they may learn of another way to go about solving the problem other than what they did. - There were one or two areas in need of an update due to changes that were made after the video was created but if you hit the discussion board other students (or Jess himself) have offered up solutions. I did not run into anything technically ground breaking that prevented me from completing the course so I consider the course still very up-to-date. - The DevSlopes courses can be a bit odd as they are all listed under Mark Price but taught by different folks (in this case Jess) and that can create some confusion on how to contact the instructor outside of the discussion board in the event you want to ask a question or discuss a topic. - I like that Jess used VS Code as I feel it's one of the easiest and nicest IDEs out there. Everything else needed for the course was easy to set up (except for Git/BitBucket, but again, I'm a beginner). - The example programs that we built look great and I feel are great building blocks to continue on with. I'm already thinking of ways I could use the bug tracker app in another useful way at my job (with some changes of course). Overall I had a great time and it was definitely worth my time and money. I'm taking this course as a software professional looking to advance my career and while I'm a long way off I feel like this was a decent start. It would be great if they ever decide to add more to the course however I understand if they don't do that. As long as the course is kept up-to-date that's probably about as much as one can reasonably ask. Thumbs up and excellent work to the instructor.

Clear explanation and well paced. I will no need to go away and work through all the aspects on my own to re-inforce what was explained.

I like how we learn everything AS we make our apps. This makes each JS feature more understandable because we see it applied in a real world situation right away. I also like the relative slow pace of the lessons... this gives me time to absorb the info better. The sample apps that we build are super practical, and seems to cover all the major and common things that a single page app would have. I deducted 1/2 a star because I don't like the intimidation factor of manually creating all the files (although there is a seed project we can use instead). I would prefer if he let "Angular CLI" build it for us, and then explain what all the files are and what they do. I'm assuming the course was created before Angular CLI was an option. If this is the case I think the manual setup section could be removed and replace it with a single 5 minute Angular CLI video. *** edit *** I just got hired today for an Angular-focused web development position at a great company. This was the very first in-depth Angular course that I took, and it helped form a great overall understanding of Angular. I did take a few other great Angular and TS courses on Udemy, but this was my start. Thanks!