In my experience, many web development courses, especially the more expensive ones, often don’t provide the value you expect. While they may offer mentorship, the same guidance can often be found for free in many forums, such as Facebook groups or sites like www.stackoverflow.com

When people purchase courses, their learning capacity can sometimes diminish. They tend to focus solely on the course material instead of exploring broader resources. On the other hand, self-directed learning allows you to gain deeper insights from various sources.

Here’s a more effective, cost-efficient, 4-step approach to learning any stack, technology, or language, which I believe works much better:

1. 🛣️ Find a Roadmap: Start with a clear learning path. Sites like www.roadmap.sh provide excellent roadmaps for different technologies.

2. 📚 Learn from Documentation and YouTube: Use official documentation as your main resource never overlook it! Pair this with YouTube tutorials to complement your learning based on the roadmap.

3. 🛠️ Build Projects: Apply what you’ve learned by building real-world projects. Hands-on experience is key to mastering new skills.

4. 💼 Get an Internship or Junior Role: This is where the real learning happens. In a professional environment, you’ll face real-world challenges and gain practical insights.

🔍 Conclusion:

Today, we also have the advantage of AI tools like ChatGPT that can guide us through roadmaps, explain complex concepts in simpler terms, suggest learning paths, generate project ideas, and even help debug code. This means you’re no longer learning alone—you have a 24/7 learning companion that can adapt to your pace and style. So before you spend hundreds on a course, consider leveraging the powerful (and often free) tools already at your fingertips.