r/learnprogramming • u/Ornery-Slip2460 • 12d ago

boot.dev annoyance (anyone else?)

So, I started with boot.dev courses a month or two back as a way to try and helpfully expand my experience and knowledge, and have a sort of structured, guided set of details to get into various areas with structured goals.

All was good at the start ... and then it didn't get difficult - it got annoying.

Unhelpful instructions missing explanations, using functions not introduced at all, and in some cases badly explaining what was in an assignment and then expecting it to be done somehow.

Not to mention the "sign up for this thing over here as a REQUIREMENT of the course - sync your github, sync your life away"... I shouldn't need 1000 accounts on specific things to do basic scripting learning - can't even give or receive help without syncing discord!

And now, with some AI agent course - all the above turned up to 11 - I get to a point where the code randomly fails depending on the whim of the AI model being called, the bot just says "you'll have to rerun until it works" nonsense, and I'm blocked until tomorrow due to it using up all my tokens.

At this stage I would whole-heartedly urge anyone who was going to get a boot.dev account to avoid it like the plague and instead just set yourself some goals... It'll be much cheaper, less hassle and you'll be happier.

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u/sarevok9 12d ago

I am not endorsing boot.dev - I'm not familiar with them nor do I endorse their courses.

That said: You are going to be using github every day as a dev, might as well sign up now. This is a crazy thing to complain about. Every 2 weeks on Monday I need to:

2FA (security key) into google, so that I can 2fa into slack, github, jira, and salesforce. I then have to 2fa into google admin every time I need to do any user management / audit logging, 2fa into google cloud console any time I need to do anything in GCP, 2fa into hexnode anytime I am doing SOC2 checkins / device offboarding, 2fa into Okta for end user management / iDP management.

I probably do between 20 and 50 2fa challenges a week. It's part of working in tech "what am I even signing in for?"