Trying to register, I couldn't get in touch with anyone for weeks by phone, email, or Twitter. When I did get a response, some questions weren't answered still, and I had to re-ask two more times, finally getting a reply the day before the class started (more than a month of waiting).
The book was nearly a decade old. The supplied assignments nearly never worked since much of it was deprecated, and the author was blamed for issues many times, despite being written many years ago with different technology. A lot of it seemed to be a history lesson on what used to work but doesn't now. Many of the old assignments tried to be reworked to function during the class, and most times it did not work out. Each time something didn't work (which was frequent), we were told either that it was deprecated, we can "put a pin in it" (and never get back to it), or we can imagine how it would work; another response was "I'm going to suspend disbelief on this one" when something was expected to work but didn't, before moving on. The entire course had an all-over-the-place sort of feel. It was confusing and frustrating.
When we got to AJAX, the instructor wasn't getting the CF part to work and was basically having me teach AJAX in JavaScript.
Whether it's the fault of the instructor himself or Ledet for not providing adequate resources to him, the code should have been prepared. Depending on the fault, take that into consideration with my ratings in this survey. The instructor said he's taught the course many times. If that's the case, there should be no surprise that something doesn't work, and a solution should already be available from having done it before. It seemed like the first time from my perspective.
In all, I believe the training investment cost more than the price tag; it cost me the opportunity to learn on my own or to work on projects of value, but with no positive return.
5 years ago
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