crossed out pluralsight logo Back in early 2012 I watched an online course on Pluralsight - Data Layer Validation with Entity Framework 4.1+ by Julie Lerman.

It was the first of a great many courses I’ve watched since then and I’ve learned a lot.

But in recent years I’ve found that I’ve spent more time watching other high quality courses elsewhere.

Previously there wasn’t anything like Pluralsight - sure, there was YouTube but the quality just wasn’t there. You could find some useful content but it fell short of the quality of the courses on Pluralsight.

In the year so far I’ve accessed around a dozen courses on Pluralsight which may sound like a lot, but just because I’ve accessed them doesn’t mean I’ve watched them. While I have viewed a handful from start to finish, most have only been watched for a few minutes, maybe just a single section within an entire course.

Add to this the fact that Pluralsight content for certain topics is limited, e.g. Umbraco & MAUI, so when the renewal price came in at over $120 I decided it was time to pull the plug. Now, $120 may not seem like a lot of money ($10/month) but sometimes you need to do some housekeeping and Pluralsight isn’t the only service to be axed.

I’ll be a little sorry to see it go but with so much high quality accessible for free. Some of it from software technology ‘rockstars’ like James Montemagno, Nick Cosentino, Gerald Versluis, Milan Jovanović. AI content is becoming more plentiful but I’ve found Liam Ottley and Nate Herk the top of the pile for my needs.

This is also from an ever-increasing number of content creators who really know their stuff and have the ability to present it.

Below is a list of YouTube sites that I tend to keep an eye on or have found high-quality content on in the past. As I’m a .NET/C# developer the channels are slanted in that direction but some are a bit more general.

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