Never. Read the docs and try it out.

I usually use free tutorials / courses to get my tasks done on the job.

However my company also allowed me to get some paid courses (for example: egghead.io).

I also take a look almost every day on the PACKT Free Learning because there is a different free book / lesson each day.

We need to support these folks. So yes.

Rarely, but I use them usually just to get new insights, follow specific trends and to get inspiration for possible activities and strategies

On udemy, top rated courses are usually up-to-date with latest trends

No, but the company I work at does.

I use Udemy for training myself. I pick the top rated courses when they are on sale at 10$ /course. Even the top rated course are not great. There is always a difference between what is taught on course and what we do at work. And some authors do not update the course, so we are left with somewhat obsolete courses (eg, no update after React hooks is released). And finally, there is a difference in courses available and courses we need. For eg, no decent course on Gatsby or Relay.

I spent a lot on Coursera stuff (back when it was on pay-per-course, I really don’t like a subscription for such stuff, because of limited time), ACloudGuru specialties and others... not to mention the many many books ;-)

Lot of great free content is available, but some paid content is really worth the price!

I believe on Documentation itself and I learn much from them. After that, I follow some blogs and youtube tutorials. And finally follow the stackoverflow posts.

But if someone could pay for my learning, then that would be great help for gaining speedy details and experience more from them.

Yes, I pay for both Laracasts and Codecourse both I use often.

I've also paid for courses such as:

• Getting Git
• PHP Package Development

I'm more than happy to pay for content as this is an investment for my future.

The last few months I have resorted to paying for premium courses as i found out most free courses out of date by a few year or have bugs like hell within them.

I am an active member of Pluralsight but due to my tight situation I rotate my membership every other month. E.g one month Plural-sight, next Linked In Premium. Works out okay when rotating them, otherwise you soon to realise when you're not using them and is it worth it wasting the money when you're not on them.

Both costing at £30.00 per month, expensive to do the courses, especially when you're just starting out with no job. Would love to see a weekly model as think would be more useful to developers who are looking at doing a week a time.

I wouldn't be opposed to it, but I rarely found the need for paid material.

I answered, "Yes, but very rarely." However, I meant almost never MY money.

Over decades of captive employment, I have had employers spend THEIR money on my training.

The only tutorials I recall ever having paid for from my own pocket were O'Reilly Quick References for the Selenium IDE and the Prototype JS Framework.