On this basis alone I supported his course. I will peruse it and no doubt learn from it, but I’d be content if I never did too. He has helped me save at least as much money as the course cost me through articles on his site.
I’m really happy to see he’s finding a solid footing in doing more of what he’s so great at.
As mentioned in the article, I suspect a significant part of his success is due to the work he has put into this in the preceding years. He seems to have a (deserved) good reputation, which gave the opening campaign and very holistic ‘ground up’ solution to giving the course legitimacy. That’s something that’s often lacking specifically in the css/js scene in my opinion.
I think that CSS/HTML are criminally underrated/underdeveloped skills, even amongst so called "front end developers" so he definitely picked a good subject for his course. I have no doubt I would learn a lot if I bought it too, even though I feel like I have a really high proficiency with CSS.
The single most important thing to learn here is to START asap. If you have an idea that you want to chase, start doing something on it now. Write. Learn. Build. Grow. Improve. Share.
Then by the time you're ready to take the big step, you're not starting from zero.
At best, you'll have sharpened your skills and built an audience.
At worse, you'll have sharpened your skills.
On a slight tangent, it was the same way my favorite instructor in university taught complex analysis. If you asked a question that you didn't understand, he would go back and to proof the topic was built upon explain why the proof is useful for the topic then build upon that until we hit the current topic.
Of course the downside is that this approach is extremely costly in time, but it really taught me a deep appreciation for math.
Happy to see someone with a similar approach.
