DevIQ

Great Course

The course takes a bottom up approach. It starts with installation and walks you all the way through coding a sample application, containing examples of the types of work you’ll find in most web applications: code organization, layout, behaviors, security, validation, data access, etc. As if that’s not enough, Steve takes it up a notch with chapters on testing, domain driven design, and clean architectures. These are a few of my favorite things! Throughout the course Steve did a great job of keeping the code simple, while also demonstrating advanced programming principals, patterns, and methodologies. There were also expert tips and suggestions for more advanced tooling sprinkled throughout. As an ASP old timer, I particularly enjoyed the sections on Middleware and Dependency Injection. While these concepts are not new to me, it was refreshing to see them front and center. If you’re looking for a way to rapidly get up to speed on ASP.NET Core then you owe it to yourself to check it out!

An ASP.Net MVC application has a lot of moving parts - and it's easy to get lost in the myriad of design and build permutations this creates. Steve does a fantastic job slicing through the fog. His no-nonsense course focuses on the critical chain of steps and knowledge required to start and organize an ASP.Net application, and to make it work. He moves crisply and concisely, but provides plenty of detail and real-world code examples to cement his teachings. Well done!

My first reaction was: "Actually I could skip this course; I feel pretty much at home in ASP:NET Core - I doubt if I will learn anything new here. But then I went ahead and took the course anyway.My title says it all: I was shocked to discover how much of what Steve teaches here was actually new to me. So my most important lesson is : Be humble -- always be open and listen to others!

This is a fairly expensive course for what you get, I'm not sure it's worth the money. If it were cheaper than I would give it more stars. Overall however, good material presented succinctly.