(Minus 1 point for occasional outdated content, but plus infinite points for Colt’s teaching style.)

If you’re a complete beginner, this course is still one of the best $10–20 you’ll spend. Colt is an exceptional teacher: clear, patient, and practical. The course won’t make you a senior dev, but it will take you from zero to capable junior developer—if you code along, do the exercises, and build beyond the curriculum.

Just when you think it’s all frontend, Colt introduces Node.js, Express, and MongoDB. This is where the bootcamp shines. You build a YelpCamp project—a campground review site from scratch. Authentication, authorization, database relations, deploying to Heroku (RIP, but now other platforms). It’s a massive, messy, wonderful project. You’ll get stuck. You’ll debug for hours. But you’ll learn more than in any other section.

Around the JavaScript section, things get real. You learn variables, loops, functions, arrays, objects. Colt paces it perfectly: a concept, a demo, a small challenge. But the first real hurdle is DOM manipulation. Suddenly you’re making buttons that change colors, building a to-do list app. It’s hard, but satisfying. You feel like a real developer.

The course starts gently. Colt doesn’t assume you know anything. The first few sections (HTML & CSS) feel almost too easy—you’re building simple websites, playing with fonts, colors, and layouts. His voice is calm, almost like a friendly guide. No jargon bombs. No “just copy this code and move on.” He explains why things work.

Here’s the honest truth: the course originally came out in 2015. Colt has updated it many times, but some parts feel dated. The CSS layout section (floats, clearfix) feels like a history lesson. Some packages are old versions. You might run into bugs that require Googling modern solutions. That said, learning to solve those problems is a real-world skill.

By the end (~60+ hours of video, plus coding time), you have a full-stack project, a basic understanding of RESTful routing, and enough confidence to build your own apps. Are you job-ready? Not quite. You’ll need to learn React (he has a separate course), algorithms (LeetCode), and system design. But you have a solid foundation—better than most bootcamp grads I’ve met.

Would I recommend it? Absolutely. Just supplement it with newer resources on Flexbox, Grid, ES6+, and a modern framework like React or Vue. But as a launchpad? This bootcamp still delivers.