Comment by Atul Sharma on "What's the best software learning service that improves your development skills and understanding of various new technology?"

CommentWhat's the best software learning service that improves your development skills and understanding of various new technology?

Atul Sharma

Full Stack Developer | Cloud Native Applications

Aug 25, 2017

Well my company provides subscriptions of Lynda, Safari, Books24x7 and many other third party content for learning.

Out of all Safari is what i prefer over all. It has all major ebooks from Willey, and other top technical publishers.

Apart from eBooks, there are tons of other video courses, complete video based learning paths for React, AWS, etc ..

PS : Lynda has pretty basic content on topics. If you want to know something more than average about the technology Lynda is not the place for you.

PPS : I prefer SAFARI BOOKS ONLINE safaribooksonline.com over Lynda, Books24x7, Plural-sight. Safari also have all the conference/training videos from O'Reilly Media Conferences oreilly.com/conferences , FrontEnd masters and many others.

Courses from Udacity are good but, very limited. Never used egghead.io extensively.

serena

Aug 27, 2017

Hey Natasha and all :)

I am a fan of frontendmasters.com. They have deep-dive courses into all kinds of Javascript topics by really great people, such as Douglas Crockford, Kyle Simpson, Sarah Drasner. It is subscription-based on a monthly basis, but they have some free taster content as well.

Thanks Serena - I'll check it out!

Atul, I haven't heard of Safari Books Online, it looks very promising. Thanks for the tip about Lynda - I've always heard good things but I have definitely noticed a trend of services that do a great job with breadth but lack depth.

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