posts/bootdevexperience/

[utterances-bot]

My experience with boot.dev as a scientist learning computer science

https://nathanshobbies.com/posts/bootdevexperience/

[shiroelf]

How confident are you with Python after the course? One of my concerns with beginner courses is that they only skim the surface and do not go deep enough.

[nwpulverizer]

@shiroelf Well, the Python course by itself within boot.dev is very much a surface level course. It will teach you some basic syntax and operations. But the collection of all the courses is where the depth comes in - courses like object oriented programming, functional programming and data structures are where you will learn your fundamental computer science knowledge. If that’s not what you are hoping for then it’s probably not for you. I believe all of the course content is free if you want to skim through it, but you won’t be able to run any code in the browser.

With that in mind - I already knew Python pretty well when I started this. In fact, I skipped most of the Python course so maybe I’m not the best candidate for the question. I really was missing the computer science fundamentals portion of programming which is why I chose to sign up for boot.dev.