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how do you spend your learning budget your company provides you with? (lemm.ee)
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So my company has a budget of around 200$ which would expire by the year end if I don't spend it on courses, books, trainings, etc.

I'm interested in knowing what you'd do or suggest. I'm in a full stack role and have tried the below.

  1. Pluralsight has good material for many topics but they're outdated many times, especially for cloud topics.
  2. Udemy has mostly up to date content and many really good creators but lacks coverage of advanced topics like pluralsight.
  3. Coursera has good University courses but make little sense in real life development.

What are some of the ways you'd have spent this budget? What are some other sites worth looking into?

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[–] TheTrueLinuxDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would spend it on language translation basically, paying someone to translate international documentations on things that aren't documented in USA no matter where you look.

[–] MegaMacSlice@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What obscure things are you working with?

[–] TheTrueLinuxDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

That one was an old documentation that some of the Chinese folks actually document a lot of quirks related to X11 protocol. I paid about $6000 for translator to work on translating that doc to English and I use it to build my own GUI Toolkit on Linux that I still use to this day.