quick poll: do the people of HN prefer resources like this in video format or written formats like blogs or actual docs? i’ve personally found it difficult to self-learn from YouTube videos so if you prefer that, what about it do you like?
List of YouTube channels for improving web development and programming skills
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#22I clicked on a few and they all turned out to be tutorials for beginners. I would use it if it had a filter for "How long have you been programming:" [ ] Never [ ] 1 Year [ ] 3 Years [ ] Over 10 years Then I would tick the "Over 10 years" option and hope to find channels that update me on the latest developments. While somebody else would select the "Never" option and will find beginner tutorials.
As an online educator, this is the nut I’m trying to crack. Beginner stuff doesn’t interest me and advanced stuff is often so specialized you can’t really teach it. And selling to intermediate engineers is crazy hard it turns out. Everyone thinks they can figure it out on their own and doesn’t want to be taught. Or works in areas so specialized only their teammates can help. And you’re always fighting against a sea o…
Check out Hartl’s rails tutorial for an outline on how to monetize project-based content. His stuff is oriented towards beginners, but I could imagine a more intermediate or even advanced type of course working well.
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#23Do people find success learning from video? As a class lecture along with a pros I find it ok but not as well as a book. I am not sure if I am old or an outliner. Most youtube/videos lessons seem to move to fast and gloss over details.
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#24I clicked on a few and they all turned out to be tutorials for beginners. I would use it if it had a filter for "How long have you been programming:" [ ] Never [ ] 1 Year [ ] 3 Years [ ] Over 10 years Then I would tick the "Over 10 years" option and hope to find channels that update me on the latest developments. While somebody else would select the "Never" option and will find beginner tutorials.
This is also a problem with paid educational content e.g. Pluralsight.
You want 101 tier material? They have it in droves, for every language/framework/concept.
You want high level system design/architecture? Team management training? Project scheduling/estimation? Or other software engineering topics: Good luck with that.
I mean, I get it, you're selling shovels to gold miners. But at some scale, it must make sense to target smaller niches.
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#25quick poll: do the people of HN prefer resources like this in video format or written formats like blogs or actual docs? i’ve personally found it difficult to self-learn from YouTube videos so if you prefer that, what about it do you like?
If I'm just interested in something, Youtube/video formats are great. If I am an intermediate/advance user of a technology, I want docs and API references that I can search around on from time to time when using the technology.
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#26I clicked on a few and they all turned out to be tutorials for beginners. I would use it if it had a filter for "How long have you been programming:" [ ] Never [ ] 1 Year [ ] 3 Years [ ] Over 10 years Then I would tick the "Over 10 years" option and hope to find channels that update me on the latest developments. While somebody else would select the "Never" option and will find beginner tutorials.
When the list is this big there almost might as well not be a list. Some level of curation is required to make it more useful.
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#27While not on that list my channel has lots of css related content: https://YouTube.com/FollowAndrew
Check out my css grid video. It’s the best you’ll find!
Agree with many comments that most channels are geared towards beginnerS (mine included), as when folks get more advanced they tend to then use stackoverflow/blogs to find solutions to very specific problems
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#28shameless plug (I'm the authour):
Dynamic Programming for Beginners: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVrpF4r7WIhTT1hJqZmjP...
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#29Would anyone be interested in a programming live stream? I've thought about turning on Twitch while poking at $sideproject.
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#30quick poll: do the people of HN prefer resources like this in video format or written formats like blogs or actual docs? i’ve personally found it difficult to self-learn from YouTube videos so if you prefer that, what about it do you like?
Both have their places.
For me I'd rather have a good speaker talk and walk through the subject matter than read about. As I can process audio faster than text.
The other side to this is that blog posts are full of people that don't write well or who are optimizing for search engines. An extreme version of this is cooking recipe posts, but I've seen tech articles that are moving this direction.