Signed up for Pluralsight this month, and I'm getting a fair amount of value from it so far, but I don't feel like that value is going to be a straight line over time.<p>I feel pretty confident that it's going to decline as I consume more material of interest to me and less material that I'm interested is created simultaneously.<p>At $29 / month it's a good value for me now, but in a couple of months I'm pretty sure I'm going to drop my membership until something comes a long that I must watch. (This time Hanselman and Conery's Art of Public Speaking got me to sign up.)
IMHO 3 months of hard work on Pluralsight courses can give one more practical programming skills than any 3 year Bachelor degree in CS. Debugging, CRUD, somewhat new JS/mobile frameworks are what the majority of software developers need to know for their 9 to 5 job.
This is fantastic news. Of all the sites I've tried within a similar vein, Pluralsight is leaps and bounds ahead of the rest. I will still go back and hit a book for certain topics but if you want to get up and running fast it's unbeatable.<p>Plus you can take courses in a series (say from beginner to advanced) and it feels like one large course even if it's different authors.<p>I know it has it's detractors but I love this site and it's worth every penny for me.
Sites like Safari Books Online and Pluralsight have transformed the way I learn new technologies and techniques. That being said, I find myself getting 3x or 4x the value out of Safari Books Online.<p>Something about those Pluralsight videos makes it harder for me to extract piecemeal knowledge, versus finding the relevant content in a book. Still for $29/month it's an unbelievable value.<p>My only other issue is I feel their beta site makes it harder to find courses and is a step backward. Hopefully they'll remedy that.
Around 6 months back, when there were hardly any books on AngularJS and related JavaScript technologies (Jasmine, Karma, etc), I was got a running start on my project after going through several courses on AngularJS and JavaScript on Pluralsight. Writing a book takes way more time than creating a video tutorial and, I think, in this rapidly developing programming landscape Pluralsight provides the right edge when it comes to learning new libraries, frameworks and techniques.
I had pluralsight membership for a month. Although the materials looks exhaustive I felt none of them went into great depth. They are good for first time use and know something in short time but beyond that there is nothing of value. And there are innumerable websites on the internet that teaches these stuff for free(maybe not all video streaming sites).
Nice, Pluralsignt have great courses about concrete products so it's really fast to pick a tech /language/framework. I however think the production value is inferior to Lynda.com, especially the sound recording. They should invest in that.
Blog from Pluralsight on "Company culture discussions" <a href="http://culture.pluralsight.com/" rel="nofollow">http://culture.pluralsight.com/</a><p>I find the blog to be worth reading.