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I've always found udacity courses to be well designed. I wish the nanodegrees didn't have those fixed start times though, and I wish it was pay by course rather than pay by month. Still, very good experiences.

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My experience has been completely opposite. With two notable exceptions, Peter Norvigs and Steve Huffman courses. Anecdotally, I enrolled in one of the other courses, wrote some of the worst js in my life (had to use some horrible Google fw that makes js look like Java) got bored with the course and forgot about it. Few months latter logged back into udacity and to my great surprise, found out I received the certificate.

> I wish it was pay by course rather than pay by month.

Udacity is pay by nanodegree. Coursera is pay by month.

It used to be part by the month. I took the data science nano degree and I finished a lot of it in a month and a half or so. The course wasn't complete and I felt like I couldn't do the reinforcement learning section based on the class so I dropped it.

It was a great deal then.

If you don't finish a Udacity nanodegree on time you lose access to the material and you have to pay again. It's certainly pay per month.

no its not. You have option to pay mothly with affirm but I don't think thats what u r referring to

More like pay per term with most nanodegrees being 2 terms if you stay on pace. They used to have a monthly optio, which was nice if you worked fast. But now the only monthlyish option is the payment plan for a term loan.

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