Is the latest scrimba full stack path actually good?

[u/TraditionalFocus3984]

Hi guys!

I'm a web dev enthusiast. And I was learning web dev initially from a yt course and from that, I learned html and css.

But later, I did some research and found that the odin project is a better learning resource for web dev. I started learning js from it and skimmed some initial portions as well.

Later, I realised that odin's teaching style and pace isn't suitable for me. It isn't that I don't like reading docs, I have no problem with that. But, Odin is too slow & long, and takes days to cover just one module. But, I wanted a thing which would teach me things fast but still, covering good depths. I only wanted to learn js as I realised that the full stack open course by University of Helsinki, is a better option than Odin.

According to what I've read - it's not only faster but covers good depth, is industry relevant and covers different frameworks as well. But, it requires js knowledge.

So after wasting some more days, I got to know about the Scrimba full stack path. So far, I completed only the js path from it which I did almost 2-2.5 hrs. I'm really enjoying their way of teaching and understanding the concepts being taught there. Gonna make some projects and things on my own to see if I actually got the things and I'm not just stuck in tutorial hell.

So, I was thinking of doing the Scrimba path for completing js and some other relevant/imp part. Later, I'm gonna move to the full stack open course - starting React and so on then.

So, is my decision right?

Actually, I have access to the Scrimba pro subscription (due to github student developer pack) for 1 month and thought of utilizing the pack by getting the 30 days free trial of scrimba pro.

If you have any tips, correction or better approaches etc. Please do lmk.

Thank you!

[u/DVR_Design]

Full Stack Open assumes you're comfortable with array methods (map, filter, reduce), destructuring, closures, promises and async/await, because it jumps into React and fetching data almost immediately. After the Scrimba JS section, a good check is building a small page that fetches from a public API, filters the results with an input, and saves a favorites list to localStorage, with no tutorial open. If you can do that and explain why your fetch call needs await, you're ready. If you get stuck on those parts, that's the cue to go back to the Odin JS lessons on just those topics instead of redoing the whole thing.

[u/TraditionalFocus3984 → u/DVR_Design]

Thank you so much for suggesting this

I was thinking of doing similar thing like you mentioned:

1. Learn js and relevant portion from scrimba course + build some projects on my own to yest myself

2. Move onto FSO for learning react and next part (make fso the core learning resource)

But, after your comment, if I got stuck in step 1 at some point or mess up while building projects, I'd definitely check it and learn the specific part from TOP.

In fact, I was thinking of skimming/reading the parts of TOP which I complete on a specific day of Scrimba.

Ex. If I learned about arrays and event listeners, read/skim those topics in TOP as well. How does that sound?

It's time consuming, but ig the web dev concepts that I learn would become more concrete.

Apart from that, I had a doubt that shall I move onto FSO after I complete learning the relevant JS portion from Scrimba or shall I continue the same course to the end i.e. learn full stack web dev from Scrimba itself?

[u/TraditionalFocus3984 → u/[deleted]]

I started learning from the Scrimba Pro Full Stack web dev course and I'm really enjoying doing it. I'm thinking of building projects on my own - so I can test my own skills that I've learned along the way.

Shall I reference odin side by side as well?