Any practical courses that you would recommend?

I can't recommend any courses as I went do the academic route. But my experience is these academic courses do not give you any practical knowledge that will help you in industry. Were I to do it again I'd start with udemy initially as the courses are cheap and seem decent. They focus on specific technologies.

Just checked the v2 and it is interesting. Thanks for suggesting dotdi & gcheong.

Could you link the v2?

Thanks, just noticed it !