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List of YouTube channels for improving web development and programming skills

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Re: List of YouTube channels for improving web development and programming skills

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Post by dorkinspace »

PretzelFisch wrote: post #23

Do 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.

I'm the same way. Videos either move too fast or too slow and generally both at the same time. That and I hate having to pause a video to view the code.

I've asked this question in other programming forums and always get a mixed response. For some people, videos are the only way to learn. For others, text is the only way to learn. And then there are many in between that choose the form of learning based on the topic.

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Post by kilroy123 »

DarthGhandi wrote: post #10
mg wrote: post #5

I 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.

Is that not just conferences in your fields? I download plenty of the major ones and end up with way more than I can ever hope to watch.

I've found the only YouTube videos I watch about programming or hacking are exactly just that. Videos recorded from a conference.

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Post by znpy »

Someone1234 wrote: post #24
mg wrote: post #5

I 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…

In my opinion, at that kind of level it's more efficient to invest in books and/or in person training/mentoring, if available.

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Post by azangru »

mg wrote: post #5

I 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.

That was my initial thought as well, but then I realised that some resources wouldn't fit into this simple categorizaiton.

Take the Google Chrome Developers channel as an example. Most of the content creators there are fantastic, experienced, and smart developers. But then, they may discuss some fundamental issues such as browser apis or web components that are equally valuable both for novices and for experienced developers. I remember one video by the http203 crew about for-loops. I mean, for-loops! who doesn't know those! And yet, that video, as it progressed, got into deeper and deeper crannies of for-loops that I had never considered. I may not remember much from the video, but I do remember that I was very pleasantly surprised when watching it.

I don't know whether there are many other resources like that in that list.

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Post by wonder_er »

I'm working on something similar, but laser-focused on:

- early-career software developers

- familiar with ruby/rails

https://intermediateruby.com/make-oss-contributions-part-1-f...

I'm working on resources to help early-career software developers feel like they're no longer early-career developers.

"pair with seniors" is the go-to recommendation for learning, so I paid a senior rails dev to pair with me on an OSS contribution (we fixed a bug in Jekyll)

I recorded the whole process, end-to-end. It's about 90 minutes of video.

Neither of us had prior knowledge of the application.

There's a lot of good stuff in it, but I'm still working on how to best show the "path" someone should take through it.

I plan on adding "obstacle courses" for certain skills that are amenable to that kind of approach.

If this is of interest to any of you, I'd love for you to click over and follow along.

Matt (the senior rails dev) and I start coding and part 2: https://intermediateruby.com/matt-swanson-jekyll-bug-p2

Re: List of YouTube channels for improving web development and programming skills

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Post by larntz »

dontremeber wrote: post #21

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?

I personal prefer reading docs/books/blogs in that order.

I also occasionally watch some live programming videos casually when I'm not focusing on anything and I've learned some things that way. For example, if they do something differently than I would have it's cool to see how it works and why they choose to do it that way.

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