App Academy Open VS Codesmith Free Courses VS Jonas Udemy vs Odin vs Freecodecamp for a beginner? Or something else?

Both App Academy Open and Codesmith CSX are not good now. App Academy Open: AA paused their SWE program so it doesn't seem actively maintained. The only good thing is that it's the entire AA curriculum and not just an introduction trying to upsell. Codesmith CSX and workshops, I have a lot more to say about this. CSX: - it's an introduction to JavaScript only and their goal is to upsell you to Codsmith by the end. They don't have enough money to dedicate hundreds of thousands of dollars to building a free platform of unique content that doesn't do. - their coding editor CSBin isn't even HTTPS and my browser won't let me open it anymore... I don't see how anyone can take this seriously nowadays. - it also hasn't been updated that much. They could at least run their curriculum through ChatGPT in 5 minutes to improve what they have now. But substance isn't the priority... spend more time marketing to you how good CSX is instead of actually making it better. - the platform experience itself is really bad engineering work and full of issues Workshops: - They are sales tools to try to get you to pay for something at Codsmith like, like the $50 JSP course which is then a tool to try to get you to join the immersive. They are also getting dated now, in the same workshops over and over. - Codesmith has turned over almost all of the instructors in the past year and now has only two actual instructors left. Instructors generally claim privately to be overworked and underpaid and being forced to deliver these workshops after a full day of work is too much for many and what you get is a scripted experience. They try to sell you Codesmith for like 10 mins and then you get like a scripted workshop that looks engaging and interactive but is following a script - even the fake bugs they "accidentally" find are actually scripted. - Their two content creditors are both ACTORS (who are trying to transition into SWE) but the focus is on APPEARANCE AND PERFORMANCE and not substance in their content.