hey guys how's it going it's Dev here and today in this video I'm going to be showing you probably the best way you can start learning coding in 2024 just a disclaimer I am by no means an expert coder I haven't even like you know got a job in the industry yet but in terms of how much I've noticed my skills uh improve from an absolute beginner to where they are now and how motivated I am to carry on learning to program this like platform is absolutely incredible for that right so like I said it's made me incredibly motivated but Core Concepts are actually getting stuck in my head with this website right the main reason for that is because they have such an Interactive Learning platform you're not just watching tutorials you are actually coding at the same time and I'm going to be talking about their interactive uh platform in a bit so you're going to be learning a lot of the programming fundamentals specifically through website design and making it interactive right so this is the front end and to be honest this was such a great way for me to start learning uh compared to what I've done before because of how responsive it is and how intuitive it is right so anything that I do in this code is going to update in real time and don't be fool just because you're learning how to code uh on the website doesn't mean that your actual programming fundamentals can't transfer to something like python or C right of course you aren't going to learn the syntax of that language but in terms of the actual programming like fundamentals in terms of the logic it can easily be transferred over this is not a sponsored video by any means right down below there is a referral link to this website however they haven't paid me any money to make this video I've actually paid for this site for my own money in terms of the pro membership and the boot camp experience and I've actually had such a great time that I'm actually going to share it with you guys right I know that quite a few people are interested in learning coding I've tried it for a few years and this was definitely my favorite solution that I've had like I said not a sponsored video by any means okay and the platform that I've been on about is scrimba they have an amazing community and their pricing is actually really on point right that's actually the reason why I paid for it for my own money and to be honest even if you aren't interested in uh you know getting a subscription they have really good uh courses available for free even if you aren't interested in spending money why don't you learn coding today why don't you try it see if it's for you I think you'll you'll have fun and if not at least you learned something new right so if you guys did enjoy this video and you enjoy the content I'd very much appreciate if you can leave a like and let's get into it okay so now let's take a look at the interactive screen class right this is hands down the best feature of the site and this is the reason why you're going to learn so much so as you can see here I've got a video tutorial look what happens when I press play now you are going to take what you've learned about the logical and operator and modify this new card function so that you be those are the two so over here you might think this is a regular tutorial right but this is where you're wrong over here I can just click anywhere on the video I can press enter and look at this I'm now going to edit the code in all time so I can say let Dev equals hello or I can go to other stuff like the HTML and I can say it's a blackjack let's do subscribe to Dev right and now look what happens when I press contrl s all of this code updates in real time right and it's actually looking at the JavaScript that I wrote before so look at this all of this is fully interactive so I can test it while I'm in this video tutorial this is such an amazing way to learn and they've actually like cracked the perfect system especially when it comes to front end right so over here if I go back and I press play condition that I haven't messed with the teacher code at all it is going to reset back to itself so over here what he's doing is he's going to give me some time to so give this a shot and I will of course show you the solution afterwards as well so as you can see in this video he's actually given me time to write my own code right this is the whole premise in terms of why this is so good for learning they teach you stuff in this interactive uh screencast you you're able to watch a video you're able to replay it you're then able to write your own code and they do actually give you gaps within the videos to write your own code and then afterwards if you've done it right you can see like you can reload and make sure the code works and let's say you don't know if your Solutions correct or maybe you're stuck on it well guess what you can just hit play to do this of the conditional and it's true that's the first condition and the second condition look at this he's going through the solution right so you're able to watch the tutorial you're able to try it yourself and then you're able to see the solution all in one place it is such an amazing way to learn in terms of if you want to try it yourself I've got this link in the description so as you can see when you press play here hi there and welcome back basic HT than AI if you are looking they've got stuff like slides that they use which are really helpful uh so it's almost like a PowerPoint or a bit of a lecture when you start going through it and then you know they're a bit funny with their gifts but then afterwards as you can see you're editing this code in real time and then obviously this is going to update as well right so this one uh I've I'm going to link in the description I don't believe you need to create an account this is just in case you want to test the environment yourself right so you can do stuff like the HTML the CSS and the JavaScript it has completely revolutionized the way that I learned front end because guess what it does build muscle memory when you're going through this I'm not just stuck in tutorial how I'm not just watching a video and then doing on the side I'm actually interacting with the code regularly in terms of learning something and then applying it straight away and it really really does help when you're learning coding and another thing I really like about this site is their solo projects that they include with every module right so obviously when you go through all of these modules you are going to produce an output that's almost identical to the tutorial cuz that's the main learning point but they have stuff like solar projects so this is so you can actually add something to your own portfolio that's based off the modules and you can actually practice is what you've learned right so over this one this was on responsive design uh and they expected me to make my own learning Journal here so this is like a template they provide but over here this is the main requirements that you should do in order to make it like you can say that this site actually works right you can actually add something to your portfolio and be like this works but the thing that makes it really easy is that if I go here they've actually included stuff like links to the figma file that they've set up right they are really good when it comes to resources in terms of like helping you add stuff to your own portfolio like I said this figma file you got the main uh base plate here you can of course use the font sizes the layouts the proportion everything here is golden this looks really professional and then uh if I go back to my solo project here there are requirements like I said this is stuff that you should do to kind of make sure that it's working but let's say you found this easy or you want to bit of a challenge or maybe you want to make your portfolio project stand out a bit guess what you got stuff like stretch goals so it's saying make it your own add custom images maybe add more pages all of this stuff like they are really trying to motivate you to add stuff to your own portfolio your own um GitHub so that eventually your portfolio stands out right and they're actually implementing this thing in terms of don't just follow our tutorials follow our tutorials write the code while you're doing it as well and then make your own projects like they really do want you to succeed okay I'm going to put this out there even though you can learn a lot of stuff on scrimba the main thing that they do focus on is front end right and that's why they specifically have a front-end career path so the languages you mainly are going to learn are HTML CSS JavaScript react uh you are also going to learn a little bit of stuff like GitHub um and Firebase they do have other stuff on their tutorials here as you can see so stuff like uh python they do have stuff like typescript uh they do even have like an AI career path uh which is really cool but the main thing you are going to learn is this front end right that's what I feel like this platform excels that you can learn python here like I said it looks like you've got six hours to Learn Python uh and it's a beginner free one I haven't personally done this I've done the front-end career path and I've main looked at these modules right so I'm just putting that out there for you guys now in terms of their Community right this Discord is actually like very active and that's one thing that I love they do have stuff like stay accountable in terms of right stuff in terms of today I will and then you know you're just kind of like uh trying to hold each other accountable which is really good you do have stuff like Power Hour chat where you can like talk to staff or where they hold like some of these Community sessions um they do have stuff like actually like a very active Discord um you do have stuff if you are a pro member I believe so you have stuff where you can talk about like you know specific modules and then you can maybe make friends or even ask other people how they done their stuff or share your progress really cool um if you are in the boot camp which is what I was you do get access to a special boot camp area where there is I think a bit more staff support which is great um like you do get study groups and code reviews over here even if you are even if you aren't on the boot camp you do get access to code reviews so this is where you can actually start uh giving code reviews to other people or submit your own projects and other people can start giving you code reviews as well right so this is kind of based on like a a community system but it is I've seen this chat and there are actually some people that do give a really good uh code reviews the main reason for this is because I think if you actually participate in a code review yourself you do get like um special points and then I think if you like do I don't know a certain amount of code reviews they will actually give you positive recommendations on LinkedIn and also the person who gives the best code review does actually get stuff for like uh free Pro membership so they do really support their community and that's why like you know you are going to see a lot of an active Community even if you aren't a pro member so that's why I said you are going to get a lot of use out of this even if you do it as a free member right you're going to learn a lot you are going to build your own personal projects and guess what you might even make some friends along the way while you start coding so it is actually a really so benefit of joining the boot camp was the fact that I could actually submit my personal projects for review and that's what I've done so here's an example where Paul has gone through my project and as you can see there's a video of him commenting feedback on my project right so if I press play what's happening with your layout and to put the title first and each one will have we can use we can use Jack and then so he's going through my code and he's basically saying oh this is how we can make it more efficient or these are stuff you can fix in order to make it kind of like more professional or industry standard and as you can see he's like giv me a personal review here which is absolutely amazing and then it doesn't just end here right so say if it's done and I feel like I've Incorporated the feedback um you know I did actually end up having like a Discord chat with him in terms of a thread to my post and we did end up going back and forth in terms of more feedback on it so the staff are very supportive here and one thing that I absolutely love about this is that they are very open with code reviews right so once I submit my code he will of course tag me when it's mine but I can see other people's code reviews right so this is someone submitting their project and I can see the feedback they've got so it is really like it's a really supportive thing in terms of you know you can actually create this for other people or I can see feedback someone else has got they are really um constructive with their feedback they do compliment you on stuff that you've done right but they also do say Hey you know uh this is something you can do better and they will of course assess it to your knowledge and your level right so they'll be like okay someone's done the stretch goals I think he can do a bit more whereas if he hasn't done the stretch goals or the more advanced goals is he struggling a bit more on the fundamentals they will give you a nice constructive feedback on that part the staff are very supportive and I absolutely love this part from them okay so this is the pricing plan that they have on their website currently right free member no money but you do get access to some really good tutorials and they're interactive editor and you can join the Discord I think you know everyone should try this a pro member this is where you can start watching all their Advanced tutorials uh you get access to everything in terms of the tutorials um and I think it's like2 a month right to me that's like pretty cheap in terms of all in terms of their learning cyle like if you're not sure about it become a free member but I think it's 20 a month for the whole year or yeah 27 if you just want to try a month itself I recommend trying it personally um I've had great a great time in there you do get call certificates as well a boot camp this is something that I join right so I get everything in a pro member but I also get code reviews in terms of um you know when I'm done with the project I can actually have the staff comment on it you do get a dedicated study group so uh the teachers do check in on you quite a bit and this is one thing that I really like I'm talk about in a bit and you do get teacher-led uh session workshops in terms of the price is £588 uh for 3 months to be honest it is expensive I'm not going to lie about that but compared to what a normal boot camp costs in terms of like 10 grand or something or maybe more they vary quite a lot this is really really good right and I'm actually going to talk about the boot camp in a separate part but in terms of the price if you are serious about learning code I've had a great time with it I thought it was worth the money I totally get if you can't afford it I mean this Pro thing works equally great even if not the freey cool so talking about the boot camp this is a topic for another video but in terms of the boot camp I've actually joining another boot camp right now or I've joined it because I have the opportunity to do it for free this is a full-time one and I'm just going to let you guys know that right off the bat the fact that I've joined the scrimer boot camp before it definitely prepared me for this one mentally and also my coding skills are a lot sharper I really if you are going to if you are thinking about doing a boot camp uh a really expensive one you know the ones that cost like tens of thousands of pounds or dollars definitely do this one because £600 you will see if you are going to enjoy that one or not you'll see if you are mentally ready for it or not so that's just a bit of advice out there this is just like a small chip of it and you are going to get like probably 50 to 70% of that experience for like a small fraction of the price so that's one advice I'm going to give you in this video one thing that I forgot to mention is that I actually did end up joining the scrimer boot camp this is their most expensive uh payment options I'm going to be giving my review on this and additional features that you know that you are going to get when you join the boot camp and whether I thought it's worth it or not maybe you're going to enjoy this if you're thinking of doing the boot camp yourself or if you are looking at boot camp Alternatives as you can see they do advertise a lot cheaper than a normal boot camp so yeah that so just say you guys know I am going to be giving the completely unbiased review on this in terms of scrimer for employability I'm only giving my opinion here but as we know the tech Market's quite hard right now if you join this or if even if you join the boot camp you aren't going to be guaranteed a job right but you are definitely developing the fundamental skills in order to create your own projects specifically on the front end and that's one thing they're going to teach you right so you can do all of this and then I feel like once you've done all of this uh course especially the pro side you do have the knowledge to create whatever you want right and that's something important that you need to start working on your own personal projects but with scrimba and with chat GPT I feel like you can do a lot in terms of uh beefing up your portfolio to even get in some stuff that an employer would be impressed with of course the experience is uh something that people struggle with but in terms of creating a portfolio that employers is actually going to be very happy with I think you can easily do that especially if you do join the boot camp and you do get stuff like I don't know on how to clean up your code to like a professional level obviously it depends in terms of what you can afford but that's just my two cents on this topic okay feedback what would I actually like for them to actually improve in scrimba to be honest the first thing is I wish they could just improve their UI a little bit right so let's say if I want to like uh go to a specific concept that I learned there's no search box here which I find incredibly annoying because you've got a lot of stuff that the titles are like done very nicely on there I just wish you had like you know a little title or something or like a search box so I could actually search stuff with the tags whenever I needed it that will be something that makes it a lot better over here you can see you do learn a lot and to be honest in terms of what you learn I find it absolutely amazing um in terms of the projects that you build the ones in the tutorial they're a bit like you do have to like go to the stuff on the personal projects not that these are bad by any means like they do teach you the fundamentals very very well it's just once you complete your tutorial I'm going to be honest I don't really feel like sharing it with a friend just because it does look a little bit ugly but I know myself how to stylize it myself um and how to change it uh and I actually do end up doing that so that's just one thing uh like a small thing that you guys uh should know I mean this is the example in terms of what you're going to make on the uh front end boot camp overall I mean it's a solid experience they are mainly C they are mainly focusing on the front end part but man like I said like in terms of this value for money free or even the pro membership £ 27 a month right now you are going to learn a lot even just the way it's going to get stuck in your head I fully recommend you try it if you guys didn't enjoyed this video I'd very much appreciate if you leave a like it does help me out a lot and if you do have any questions ask them down below in the comments right I actually have paid for this platform I can give you an honest review about it like I said nothing in this was sponsored if they are generous enough they might give me a referral link down below but I'm going to give my unbiased opinion like I said majority of it was positive um I don't really have many complaints but I can give you honest opinions in terms of whether I think it's right for you or not if you write to me in the comments so that was it for this video take care guys cheers bye