Expectation: With 39 hours of updated video content (i.e. not including the legacy videos), I was aiming to finish it in two weeks, keeping in mind that I was working full-time.

Actual: I spent roughly x3 the number of hours to finish this course. I had 1.5 weeks off during the winter holidays and so I spent every single day coding with Instructor Stephen. It took me longer than I anticipated.

Disclaimer: it took me awhile also because I was committing changes and replaying videos.

Recommendation: Depending on what your goals/objectives are in learning, ask yourself what level of depth and length you want to invest before you make the commitment to choose this course.

The course was extremely in-depth and showed alternatives to solutions. We focused on React and Redux, so Instructor Stephen tried to use third party libraries to take care of the rest (e.g. css grid, semantic-ui)

For me, it went a little too in-depth for what I really needed to know as a Product Manager. However, it was great to learn new terminology.

The online course is very well structured with 26 sections. Each section varied between 2 videos to 24 videos. Each video lasted on average 6 minutes.

Instructor Stephen made mockups of apps we were going to build and for each complex topic, he would have diagrams to illustrate the code/logic flow.

There was also a Github repository I forked so that I could double check where I went wrong if my code showed errors.

Only downside was that there were a lot of refactoring which confused me. I was using Javascript Diffchecker constantly to ensure I was writing the same code as Stephen was.

Note:

Some concepts may have flew over my head could have been due to the lack understanding newest updates to JavaScript. I know I have to spend more time looking at various parts of the content again!

Nope. I'm okay with that. I understood the high level concept of how React works and that was what I was looking for.

I would think so. I was actually extremely naive in thinking I could have started React-Native course without doing React.

I asked a question about components on the Q&A portion of the site and was automatically redirected to learn React first. Yes, they found out I was a fake with just 1 question!

Depending on how complex it is, I’m sure I can whip up a basic web-browser app to do very basic things like take an input. I mean, I can always use the help from fellow developers around the world and Google search!