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Update: Scrimba refunded the accidental renewal and made a slight update to their FAQ adding a reference to costumer support in addition to the description of their policy on renewals (that they are not refunded,by default at least).

I bought a year-long subscription for Scrimba last year. It was ok, bit it didn't meet my expectations. Without warning or contact, Scrimba withdrew money for another FULL YEAR of subscription that I do not need nor was aware that I had signed up for. They refuse to refund it even though I attempted to reach out within hours of the transaction appearing on my account. I cannot afford it :(
The company feels more like a money-grabbing scam than anything else. Be very careful!

I have tried other coding platforms, free and paid. Some are too hand holding, telling you every single step without showing the picture, and often time I forgot what's I am even doing. Some are too difficult for beginner, as I just code without knowing if I am doing it right or not.

Scrimba is not perfect, but it is the best platform right now for me who needs to fall in love with coding again, while also learn good coding practice.

The instructors are really enthusiastic and it's so much fun than just reading lecture note. Also, they show you what projects you are going to make. I like when they show me the final design, and I will try to make my website look like that. Which are similar to receive Figma design from UX designer in my work.

Okay, now as you become more advanced, coding with their in-browser IDE is not ideal. But for beginner, or people who just want to try coding for fun, it's great to get a sense of coding. Besides, you are not forced to use their IDE. You can just code along. :D

Best platform to learn code out there. Literally replaced insta scrolling with scrimba how engagin it is

Excellent Platform
What a excellent platform. Nothing is skipped. The courses are perfectly designed and knowledge builds on top of each other.
Really love the exercises and the in-browser IDE, which makes it really easy to just get started.
By being an in-browser IDE, it allows for flexibility and quick starts, which is less friction to actually go through the course.

Excellent job!

It's a good service. Customer service is excellent.

Emma from Scrimba customer support went above and beyond to help me as a customer and make my experience amazing. I have become a massive fan and advocate of this company.

I must say that it is one of the best educational platforms I have ever encountered. I love how they repeat concepts and apply space repetition. I hope they will maintain this high quality of work, because that's what will set them apart in the market. Great job, Scrimba!

Scrimba has a really cool in-browser code editor that makes learning fun, but the yearly price feels a bit high. You can find similar courses elsewhere for a one-time purchase at a much lower cost. And honestly, you can get the same practice by coding on your own laptop with free tools like VS Code.

I’ve actually had a very good learning experience so far and have learned a lot — until I reached the ES6 JavaScript course. The instructor constantly refers to himself as a “coding god,” which I really dislike. He frequently brings religious references into the course instead of simply providing professional, focused content.

I had purchased tons of courses on other platforms, but I always finished them feeling like I did not learn much. I heard good things about Scrimba, so I gave it a try. Suddenly I was actually learning the content. The principle is called active recall. We learn by doing, and being challenged on what we just learned, and Scrimba does an amazing job weaving that directly into all the content. The concept of the Scrim is also amazing, and brings the learning closer to home as well. It also helps that the instructors are personable and actual humans. Scrimba has made me a better developer, and I am excited they are adding backend courses soon.

The best platform out of all the ones I've tried, with the most practical and useful tutorials on the internet today. Endless value!

I love it! For the first time, I find coding courses really clear for me!

I originally had issues subscribing to the Pro access where I was charged for it but I did not get access to the Pro account. I reached out to the support team and the support person was rude and careless. After escalating my ticket, I finally got ahold of someone that was very nice and fixed all my problems very quickly and apologized for the behavior of the first person.

As for the content, so far I really like the product and how interactive it is.

Scrimba is the best place for learning React!

I believe that Scrimba is one of the better places to learn programming. Most courses offer video after video in hopes you would practice on your own. With programming you have practice daily to build muscle memory. That's exactly what Scrimba offers, you watch bite size videos and right after learning something new, you are required to put it into practice. It's proven that this method of learning makes better developers. I recommend Scrimba to everyone.

The course content itself is very high quality, but Scrimba avoid giving any facility to cancel, so once they have your card details they will continually attempt to take subscriptions each & every month.
So for THAT reason, I suggest all avoid signing up until Scrimba start respecting consumer’s rights.

I am in the middle of the beginners CSS course. I also did the React one. Scrimba are the best providers in my opinion because : they break the course into manageable chunks, they test you as you go along and they provide solo projects, which you may need to subscribe to and I did and found it hugely rewarding.

Pressure tactics to get you to continue with the course, no way of having a break from the course, threats to close my account down and charge full price to what new paying customers are paying. Very poor.

Scrimba courses are decent for complete beginners, but after some level of learning, i think the ROI becomes less, The course lessons are divided into so many pieces that it takes a toll on learning. The number of advanced courses are very less and they are not great as their beginners course.

Review for website UI - I really think Scrimba UI is very revolutionary, to have editor and presentation together and ready to edit feature is excellent, but right now it is very buggy, sometimes i cannot edit the editor until i refresh the page, i also had console blocking my lesson view and if i raise a bug it takes more than a month for someone to respond. I hope they fix these issues and not everyone will be active on discord or other platforms. The turnaround time for bug reporting should be improved in scrimba website.

I still recommend Scrimba for getting introduced to a topic but nothing else.

Scrimba is nice for beginners. I took mostly the frontend stuff and CSS. But there are 2 main things I'm not too fond of.
1. While teachers like Kevin Powell are great, others talk to you like you are a 5-year-old. This isn't very pleasant.
2. The exercises are too easy, its just too easy to do and in a live world example it won't really help you think logically because most of the times your boss won't leave you a comment on what to do with that for loop you just created. While this is nice at the start after a few modules or lessons this should be changed to something more challenging so it reflects the real job you are going to have.

I LOVE THE PLATFORM. I love how i can pause the video anytime anywhere and just work on the code on screen without any hassle! Defn recommend it to someone starting their career in frontend!