Boot.devReviews of boot.dev

If only bootdev existed 15 years ago... I'm ashamed that I'm only paying 800 PHP for this bootcamp the learnings that I'm getting truly exceeded my expectation!

Starts off fine, but eventually stops helping you in any way with their "ai assistant" just repeating what you've already done and repeating the task's requirements, and when you try to get any useful info out of it, it just calls you "cub" and tells you to figure it out by yourself. In the end, you are left learning nothing, extremely frustrated at the lack of assistance, wasting your time and potentially even money. If you are starting your coding journey, do NOT use this. You will get nowhere.

Boot.dev was a great platform for learning to code. But my positive review is about customer service. I didn't intend to cancel when I signed up, but life got crazy and I couldn't find time to put into learning code. And then money got tight. But because I hadn't been on in a while I completely forgot to cancel the subscription. I reached out to boot.dev, explained the situation in an email, and without replying trying to get me to "stay on cheaper" like many companies do, they simply refunded the subscription charge the very next day. Now that's customer service! And I will likely return to learn more when time and money free up.

I had tried learning C 2 times before, but i gave up because no other website could explain memory management simply enough. but with boot.dev I now have a very good understanding of memory management in C. this site managed to explain memory management very simply and i'm happy with the results i've gotten and the best part is that the lessons on boot.dev are completely free.

Great for learning to program or for brushing up your programming skills. It might be a bit boring for experienced developers wanting to learn new technologies like Python or Go, because the lessons and exercises are quite guided.

I found the content to be engaging and rather straight forward. Any gotchas that were encountered were due to misreading the expected outcome. Very easy to do in any real world scenario. While I do have a CS degree, it has been ages since I've written any meaningful code aside from SQL. The courses provided allowed me to refresh my skills and learn languages that were either not available during my course of study or not popular at the time. The skills gained allowed me to be a more productive member of my project team by implementing an automation testing suite for our product. To me the cost felt reasonable for the content provided. To compare I am also a Certified Scrum Master. That course was approximately $500 at the time and was only 16 hours worth of content + exam fee. For less than that, Boot.dev has provided me north of 300 hours of content and I feel like I have a more useful and meaningful skillset.

The courses are amazing! I came in knowing Python, but yet I still learned many new Python tips and tricks. Add Go to that and the plethora of other tools you get a really well rounded education. Whether you want to be w backend developer or not this course is great for anyone that wants to be introduced to coding or either refresh their skills or enhance them.

I got a black fri deal making the price I paid worthwhile. The gamified style and module content generally worked to keep me engaged. There are frustrating aspects, especially when there is something you're not grasping, a lesson takes 6 hours and you only get a relatively small amount of "XP" for your effort or miss a day / "deadline". Some courses feel like a boss/lead is walking through/training instructing you exactly how to design and build something, then they get pulled away halfway and leave you to guesstimate exactly how they want it built with little direction... It's ok if you look at it as what a real job can be like, but can be a quite frustrating. The community/discord is helpful and encouraging. With so many features, some of the best aspects (spellbook) can be overlooked where Boots (AI) may be the more difficult way to find the answer you're after. Since my paid year expired, I haven't put anywhere near the amount of hours into study than I did while I had it. I'm yet to try the free version for the few things I'd like to go back to / didn't get to. If you're more likely to play a game than study, but want to learn, improve, or practice coding / "back end" technologies, this could be for you.