>It's good to have different approaches as people learn in different ways. The Learning Line stuff does bring in different views by incorporating links to other material.
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>I agree on training for kids. I'm trying to convince my youngest to learn some coding.

I thought this was kind of cool I knew nothing about Bosh prior to this and then I heard he missed some games to be with his newborn kid. I think I like this guy.

http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/10/chris-bosh-why-everyone-should-learn-to-code/



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>>Thanks Craig. Always good to see training done from a number of angles. I just took a look at that course offerings. I think the Pluralsight approach might be more my style in that the diversity of instructors has allowed them to go way beyond the "vanilla" development environment. For example, would rather learn the HTML 5, javascript, WebAPI, EF - SQL stack with a binding framework ( Angular or Knockout ) and data manager (Breeze) as well as all the javascript helper libraries already built into the instruction as it make it easier for me to go "real world" in my head as I'm learning (you know me - never try to invent what the toolmakers have already created <s>) I may be missing what the courses actually contain and I only did a cursory look at the ASP/MVC course.
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>>That said, certainly see a lot of value there and I am sure that as the course offerings expand it will be another valuable assets. If I knew a kid about to pay $40k a year to get a CS degree I'd sure advise him to spend 2 self-teaching years first with the online stuff that is now available.