Best C++ Courses (HIGH quality) for 2023

There are A LOT of articles out there about the best materials. Meanwhile, most of them are just copy-paste for the popular things, missing recent strong courses. Here, we will list ONLY the top of them!

I want to teach you GREAT simple rules to recognise HIGH-quality courses. Consider these tips:

• Being popular doesn’t equal being strong materials. Older courses have higher visibility (Matthew effect)!
• Breadth: A good course covers wide spectrum of topics. Open the table of content of 1–2 books to know what are the topics to be covered
• Depth: A good course goes deeper for each topic. See the number of minutes per topic. See reviews.
• Practice: Sadly this is where 99% of online materials fail. Most courses just present content and rarely push you to practice well. Some courses claim to have projects that ends up to be basic practice.
• Reviews: reviews can easily be misleading as the student doesn’t know what is really a good a course. Many naive courses are highly rated! Utilise negative reviews.

Mastering 4 critical SKILLS using C++ 17

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• CSGetSkilled Academy is one of the places that market itself with courses with intensive practice
• Pros:
  — Wide Breadth
  — Deep Breadth
  — Modern Syntax (subset from C++17)
  — Intensive practice covering 4 skills (programming, problem solving, design, project building)
  — 6 projects (really challenging)
  — 170 problems to code
  — 50 quizzes (real ones)
  — Slides are detailed for later review
  — OOP is explained in a deep way compare to many other courses
  — Explain concepts in a good way but short time
• Cons:
  — Egyptian English Accent. You can get use to it soon. There are substitiles
  — Some English Grammar mistakes in the slides, but not distracting
  — Doesn’t cover all modern C++, but this is so big to cover and the course already huge
  — Use more code image snippets than live coding
• Overall: the key advantage of this course is its intensive practice. This is a MUST course

C++ Programming Essentials for Beginners

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• Coding Minutes is also another source of high quality courses with several practice. Not as deep as the previous course/source, but still way beyond many others
• Cons
  — Indian accent but clear one
  — No modern C++ Syntax
  — Seems the course still under construction (Dec 2022). OOP section is still in early phase and no enough major topics

Learn C++ Programming -Beginner to Advance- Deep Dive in C++

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• Pros
  — Easy explanations
  —Knowledgeable Instructor
• Cons
  — Indian Accent
  — Limited Advanced concepts
  — Lack depth in some topics
  — Lack more modern syntax
  — Basic practice but still good start
  — Single basic project
• Overall: this is a good beginner course from knowledge perspective. However, after it you need effort to gain skills and deeper knowledge

The Complete C++ Developer Course

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• Overall, similar to the previous course but consider
• English accent is very good
• What is called projects are just basic exercises
• Limited quizzes
• Higher quality reviews

Beginning C++ Programming — From Beginner to Beyond

• Similar to the previous 2 courses, but consider
• It takes a lot of time to deliver concepts making the course so long
• Sometimes elaborate a lot on easy concepts and rush with harder ones
• English accent is very good
• It is a beginner course not advanced one
• It is the best-seller one, but this feature is NOT about quality. It has too many reviews

Complete Modern C++ (C++11/14/17)

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• The key advantage of this course it has more modern syntax coverage compare to most of the other courses
• However, it still lacks depth and breadth
• I don’t advise with this course as a beginner course

The C++20 Masterclass : From Fundamentals to Advanced

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• This is the most comprehensive modern C++ course on Udemy. Those who seek using C++ in industry should study this course
• The course still lacks practice

Working Plan

• CSGetSkilled Academy course is the best balance on Udemy with unique stress on problem-solving and project building skills
• Another good choice is coding minutes course
• If you decided to use C++ in the market, then AFTER one of them learn from the C++20 course
• If you still has understanding problems, consider the other listed courses