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YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by whatch »

colmvp wrote: post #32
geerlingguy wrote: post #5

In this article: 5000 words about "what is programming". Then, waaay down at the bottom, the actual list of YouTube channels. Seriously, this is worse than those recipes where you have to get through three anecdotes about cooking with grandma.

I was just watching an old YouTube video of a couple guys throwing a giant rock off a bridge into a river in a remote part of the U.S with no one around. It was 20 seconds long. If it were produced in 2020, you'd have 10 minutes of useless preamble including discussion about how hyped they are to throw a rock, how difficult it is to carry a rock, fake drama about being followed by non-existent security, a drone shot…

> 10 minutes

And 1 second

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by diehunde »

gen220 wrote: post #31

For those of you that are seasoned, whether you're deeply-familiar with C or not, I'd recommend Antirez's walk-throughs of Redis. Episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBrnmciV9fM Watching highly-effective programmers navigate, explain, and modify code can be a career-changing experience. If you're not working in a place where these kinds of programmers accrue, you might never get the experience. Thank goodness…

I also recommend "Hacking with Andrew and Brad: tip.golang.org" [1]. They are part of the Go team. It's just something to watch the pros doing live coding. By the way, what's with antirez's colorscheme? I wonder if he really uses that blue background or is it just for the video.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rZ-JorHJEY

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by dfxm12 »

Am I the only one who thinks watching videos is an inefficient way to learn new programming techniques?

There's no way to copy and it's hard to remember where a specific concept was so that you can reference it again. Sometimes, the video or audio quality is bad enough that you can't even really tell what's going on.

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by diehunde »

VikingCoder wrote: post #10
yuanshan wrote: post #7

“The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it”. --

I know a guy who apparently has photographic memory. When a new programming language comes out, he buys the book, and reads it, and then he's fluent in that language. It's terrifying to watch. And the guy had no idea that's not how people do it. He saw me fiddling with a new language, and was baffled with what I was doing.

That's cool but memorizing a language doesn't mean he can write good code. You still need to learn the patterns.

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by scop »

colmvp wrote: post #32
geerlingguy wrote: post #5

In this article: 5000 words about "what is programming". Then, waaay down at the bottom, the actual list of YouTube channels. Seriously, this is worse than those recipes where you have to get through three anecdotes about cooking with grandma.

I was just watching an old YouTube video of a couple guys throwing a giant rock off a bridge into a river in a remote part of the U.S with no one around. It was 20 seconds long. If it were produced in 2020, you'd have 10 minutes of useless preamble including discussion about how hyped they are to throw a rock, how difficult it is to carry a rock, fake drama about being followed by non-existent security, a drone shot…

This comment made me so happy.

I must ask: what led you to view this video?

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by x87678r »

In general its tough to learn from videos, BUT its really enlightening to see demos of people's workflows, how often they test, how long it takes to compile run. Demos where people have problems, make mistakes, can't figure out why obvious things are going wrong, skippping a bunch of unit testing, hard code credentials etc. Hearing other people gave up on XYZ is reaffirming.

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by thebeefytaco »

geerlingguy wrote: post #5

In this article: 5000 words about "what is programming". Then, waaay down at the bottom, the actual list of YouTube channels. Seriously, this is worse than those recipes where you have to get through three anecdotes about cooking with grandma.

Here's a list of all the channels:

* Traversy Media: https://www.youtube.com/user/TechGuyWeb

* 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw

* ThePrimeagen: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8ENHE5xdFSwx71u3fDH5Xw

* Gaurav Sen: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRPMAqdtSgd0Ipeef7iFsKw

* Jon Gjengset: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_iD0xppBwwsrM9DegC5cQQ

* Two Minute Papers: https://www.youtube.com/user/keeroyz

* Raymond Hettinger (no channel): https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Raymond+Hetting...

* Simple Programmer: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRxWW_Ncs308nW4An23Yeig

* The Coding Train: https://www.youtube.com/user/shiffman

* Academind: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSJbGtTlrDami-tDGPUV9-w

* Derek Banas: https://www.youtube.com/user/derekbanas

* Mark Lewis: https://www.youtube.com/user/DrMarkCLewis

* Dev Ed: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClb90NQQcskPUGDIXsQEz5Q

* The Net Ninja: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW5YeuERMmlnqo4oq8vwUpg

* Fun Fun Function: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO1cgjhGzsSYb1rsB4bFe4Q

* Computerphile: https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile

* Bisqwit: https://www.youtube.com/user/Bisqwit

* ThinMatrix: https://www.youtube.com/user/ThinMatrix

* Gary of Destroy All of Software (non-youtube): https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts#:~:text=Destr....

* PatrickJMT: https://www.youtube.com/user/patrickJMT

* Ben Awad: https://www.youtube.com/user/99baddawg

* Google Chrome Developers: https://www.youtube.com/user/ChromeDevelopers

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by tlarkworthy »

frogpelt wrote: post #56
JSavageOne wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's all thanks to the Youtube algorithm.

YouTube started as a place for anyone to post videos. But it quickly became a place for people to build a business posting videos. The algorithm makes it hard to find the videos without the cruft but I imagine they are uploaded by the millions.

No you can get additional monetization options for 10min or longer videos, they incentivize the padding.

https://www.quora.com/How-does-making-a-10-minute-video-on-Y...

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by sAbakumoff »

ravenstine wrote: post #46
colmvp wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was just watching an old YouTube video of a couple guys throwing a giant rock off a bridge into a river in a remote part of the U.S with no one around. It was 20 seconds long. If it were produced in 2020, you'd have 10 minutes of useless preamble including discussion about how hyped they are to throw a rock, how difficult it is to carry a rock, fake drama about being followed by non-existent security, a drone shot…

Hey, what's up everyone, it's your man Todd. I'm back with another video and, today, we're gonna throw a giant rock off this bridge! But first, a word from our sponsor. Now, I don't play games very much, but I've been playing Raid: Shadow Legends and I can't get enough! It's got all sorts of shit that other games have, but Plarium let me play Raid: Shadow Legends for free . Boo yah! Trust me, you won't want to leave…

thanks man, I laughed like crazy. Do you have more?
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