Udacity

It was a nice overall experience of studying from such awesome materials and resourceful courses

what I liked most about Udacity is the challenging project, it's kind of using all that I have learned in one place,

and I applied to even use more than that in the projects especially in the beginning of learning a new skill, the project is really kept in handy.

what I also like most how the quizzes helping us to practice and demonstrate the ideas, even when the concepts begin to get a little harder! or just so new to me.

also, the quality of videos is really high, well tailed for the subject.

I really enjoyed the course and the detail that instructors provide within their video segements for the course. They push you to learn on your own and develop your knowledge in order to pull through the assignements. This in turn allows the student to challenge themselves to create wonderful code or features within projects.

You won't be disappointed pursuing their courses that are available. They are constantly working with tech companies to bring students the latest in knowledge and current business practices in the industry. They also work hard to make sure you are job seeking ready while searching for the jobs that suite your field of interest.

I've been doing MOOCs for a while now on many different websites. I had the opportunity to take a Nanodegree course on Udacity in Machine Learning Engineering. I'm here to give feedback on that, spoiler alert, it was one of the best.

Curriculum: Udacity curriculum is one of the best. All of them are created by professionals who are experts in their respected fields. The curriculum is updated regularly so that students get the experience of what's currently trending in the industry. 

Instructors: Udacity has highly qualified instructors. All of them are mostly employees are Udacity and they have a good selection process hiring instructors. All the projects are manually evaluated by instructors and proper feedback is given.

Quality of course: Every course is divided into multiple sections and each section focuses on many different topics. After every topic, you are given a quiz to evaluate yourself. All the videos are well crafted with great animation and are very compact which makes them great to watch. 

Job Assistance: The job assistance is not that great compared to the actual course. Don't get me wrong, Udacity provides a number of facilities to get their students hired including. Services like Linkedin profile review, Github profile review and, resume reviews are very helpful. However, they do not actually provide much career assistance apart from that. Their forum and job board isn't much different from any other job site in the market. I wish the job assistance were better. 

If you really want to learn something then Udacity is the place to go. They will give you a very high standard of education although it might cost you more than others in the category. You will be able to break into any field with confidence with a Nanodegree from Udacity. I'd definitely recommend to everyone from beginner to experts. 

17 years ago it was difficult to "study" the code, because everything was happening in real time and progressing very quickly. Code academies did not exist. At that time, we learned by researching, self-learning.

Udacity online courses allow students to organize their time to study when they are doing better (great for the people that work) and from anywhere in the world.
It has been exciting to get my first front-end certificate

I completed the Udacity Full Stack Nanodegree. Overall, it was a positive experience and I am aware that the course content and curriculum has improved since I took it.
 
As per Udacity's teaching style, the course videos are short and succinct to make knowledge easily digestible. The course instructors explained the materials using various diagrams, analogies and examples. There are quizzes to challenge you and test your new-found knowledge. And also, several challenging projects for one to apply their gathered skills and to also show to potential employers.
 
I also got free services like LinkedIn, Github, CV and Cover Letter review. The feedback I received was really helpful. This is arguably one of the better parts of the program especially if your online presence is below par.

I really liked the training and course content of the ML Engineer Nanodegree, but be forewared, it is heavily tilted for AWS. It focuses on deployment of models, so be sure you already know your basics and algorithm theories beforehand as it mainly teaches you on how to deploy ML projects via AWS Sagemaker.

The required projects are the best though. They walk you through tough parts in the first two so you are not overwhelmed, but they do make you work for the last one so you will be prepared and ready. 

I do wish the program as a whole had more job placement support. (Udacity used to have a money back guarentee years ago, just before I got on board, but now they don't.) At least their scholarship options are nice. So if you are a worker, you shouldn't have to worry too much about funding. 

The mentors are great. They respond quickly and the student resources are useful as well. If you are trying to level up your knowledge and skills, this is a good site and most programs are excellent.

I learned a lot through projects. The instructional videos with exercises were high quality as well. However, few videos done by instructors from Georgia Tech were boring but they removed them from the recent course content. 
So, main value of this program compared to other programs are the projects and their feedback. They give you detailed feedback even on your code and suggest ways to improve even the things that I did right. I haven't seen this in any other online course and I learned a lot through it. 

 

 

Great instructors with an amazing support for milestone projects that are required as part of the course's curriculum. However, the topics covered in the Machine Learning part were too superficial compared to the preceding modules, leading to an underwhelming experience at arguably the most impactful part of the nanodegree's syllabus. It was clear that the material was considerably older than the other modules, and I hope that the newer iterations have corrected that.

I still highly recomend Udacity for its overall experience and relevance and plan to take other courses, but I'd recommend checking the syllabus to see if there are older courses mixed in-between newer ones.

If you really want to build something or to develop an approach towards any web based project, This nanodegree is best for you.

Lets consider some points for better understanding

1.Timeline 

For complete new bee there are prerequisites you must check before enrolling ,otherwise you will end with time deficiency. To complete all projects and requirements for successfull completion of nanodegree you will have just Four months which is just minimum required time for a student who has familiarity with html, css and javascript, a sufficient time. Otherwise you need more than Four months.

2.Instructors

Instructors are masters in their field, most of them have real working experience , They have been in related industry or developing software, They will take you basic to the software engineering topics . Richard Kalehoff is best instructor, he instructs on DOM, Version control and  Object-oriented programming topics

3.  Course Curriculum.

Curriculum keeps updated in every 6 to 7 months according to market demand and new development trends, relevant projects are there with respect to each topics covered throughout the course. Sometimes project becomes headache and you will stuck if you develop all projects your own, they are time consuming but you will have real experience of working on projects and meeting deadlines.

4. Job and opportunity

Udacity organise udacity propel a job fair type where company and graduates from all nanodegree  gather and participate in interview process. Initially you may not have enough confident to take part in job process but if you stay courageous and keep learning after 1 to 2 months of course completion you will  fiind yourself confident enough and and believe me interviewer will be impressed . It;s my real experience too, I had a job offer at a startup https://www.weebuy.in condition was to join as a full time employee and I am 3rd year CSE undergraduate so that was not possible.

Also you have understanding of how things work on web and you will have a best approach towards any project.

 

Hello Everyone,

As a recent graduate of the Udacity Nano degree program I wanted to outline a brief review of the key elements that will help you decide to take this program or not depending on your knowledge needs.

 

First of all, this program is talking generally about Data gathering, extraction and visualiztions with the help of some programming languages and here are some of its top topics details:

-you will learn SQL starting with basic querying to very advanced quering that will give you the ability to deal with huge amount of data including the concepts of joining tables and selecting specific carteria.

-when it comes to data Python is one of the leading programming languages in data analysis, which you will be using to read CSV files and make your analysis with the help of the libraries (Pandas, Numpy, matplotlib and more)

-Statistics is an essential element in data analysis which you will be learn from absolute beginning like how to get (mean, median and standard deviation) to how to make very large simulations and sampling using python.

 

-R programming langauge is an easy way to conduct complex statistics on your data with simple code as well as great visualiztion and that what you will be learning at some point in this program.

 

-Business Inteliginous tools are great fit to build better data visualiztions for your data, this is why Tableau is including on this program to better assest you have full knowledge of using such tools.

-tools you going to use (Jupyter notebook, Anaconda, Rstudio, Excel and others)

Secondly, which I condsider as the most important part is practicing on real world projects, This program has 8 projects that you will have to finish according to the rubric of each project requirement in order to graduate and take your certification.

 

Why take this program?

Take this program if you want to learn about:

-SQL 

-Python programing for data analysis

-R programing for data analysis

-Statistics

-Tableau

-API integeration

-Data extraction

-Data Scraping

-Data Wrangling

-Data Cleaning

-Data Assessing

 

What type of companies will I use this program in?

Almost all companies that has any sort of data requires some data analysis skills including but not limited to

-Medical companies

-Finance companies

-ecommerce website

-Retail industry

-Hospitals

-Schools

-Factors

-Research

-B2B or B2C company/website

 

Is there any prequists before I join this program?

-there is nearly no prequists for this program since it starts with you from the absloute beginning but I would recommend that you have the potential to search and ask for any part you don't understandf well.

 

Will I find support if I couldn't understand something?

The Udacity Platform consists of a big forum in which you can ask your colleagues as well as mentors who are always available to answer your questions as soon as possible.

 

Overall writer review:

-My evaluation for this program as someone who were always searching to get deeper in the field of data analysis is this program is a very good start, it takes you from zero to hero in all tracks of data analysis which will give you the opportunity to apply directly to jobs as a junior data analyst showing them 8 of great projects worth of knowledge and practice that will prove your skills anywhere.

If you are interested in this program you can directly apply here:

http://bit.ly/data-analyst002

 

I hope this review help all students seek to develp their data analysis knowledge

 

Mohamed

I have taken a lot of online courses on various platforms but Udacity beats all others hands down.

Udacity's curriculum is very rigorous which helps the students to learn the right skills for their chosen programs. The courses are taught by industry experts who are very knowledgeable in their fields. The way the basics and applications in deep learning were explained makes for an easy understanding of the course which helped me solve the projects in the course. 

The best part of Udacity for me is the student community and slack channel. Through this channel, I made friends, study partners, project partners and most of all the help and support from fellow students helped me graduate. Information, tutorials, resources and technical support flow freely the slack which makes it the most valuable part of the Udacity program after the course videos.

I already have other Udacity courses lined up for me. I have already started recommending Udacity courses to my friends, relatives and blog readers who are interested in getting a career in the technology industry. Udacity rocks !!!

I got to know about this program from one of my friends who was very keen on participating in such programs. At first, I thought that I won’t even get a chance to be part of the preliminary round itself which was also done by selecting from the writeups on why we should have this scholarship offered by Google on Udacity. But since all my friends were applying I also applied for it but still I was thinking that it was meant for those who are good coders and developers. One day when I was just checking my mail, I saw one mail stating that I got selected for the Google India Challenge Scholarship: Front-End Web Dev - Udacity. And the most interesting part was that it was in the Promotion part in my mail which I have never checked before ever since I have created my mail, but I still don’t know what made me check that part and checking off which made me extremely happy and made my day because getting an opportunity in such a program which I was thinking was only meant for developers and not for beginners in programming like me. It was the 1st round which was a 3 months crash course on Front-End Web development and on successful completion of which provided an opportunity to get a scholarship on the Nanodergree program. I did well for the first 2 and half months and couldn’t do it well for the remaining half the month due to my exam which again surrendered my mind with the same old thoughts of the not getting selection in this course. But after the completion of the crash course and losing hope of getting selected among 10000 competitors and be one among those 1000 was something out of my imagination. But the course gave me something to learn new land a push towards my web development career.

Once again changing my expectations I got a mail from the Udacity team congratulating me on my selection for Nanodergree program. I was struck with a bolt of happiness and was jumping around like I was the first to climb the Mount Everest and it was first time in my life I was experiencing a joy of that kind since I didn’t expect to be among 1000 out of 10000 competitors looking forward to the scholarship program.

That day I realized that nothing is meant for a special group or special class of people it’s all meant for those who are ready to work hard and grab the opportunity placed in front of them.

This Nanodegree program changed my career as earlier I had an offer from a service-based company and after doing this course I got an invitation to attend an interview in a product based startup and I am currently working here as a Front-End web developer. 

This was a great opportunity to enroll in this nanodegree because it's the most helpful course I had taken. I learnt a lot from it not only how to write code but I learnt how to think before writing code and how to write a professional code and build high performance apps. I recommend this nanodegree for all people who wants to be not only Android Developer but to people who wants to learn how to be a great developer. Finally, I want thank all instructors and all people who helped me in gaining this opportunity and completing the courses in only 3 months. Thanks to you all at Udacity.