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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 fma »

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…

I'd like to know which video you transcribed this from. /s

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by petercooper »

dfxm12 wrote: post #63

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.

I like them principally because I can actually see what they did rather than them writing what they think they did in an article.. this is a common problem with documentation where if you follow it to the letter, there's still some other thing they failed to mention.

Articles are much better once you're up to speed and knowledgeable about a space, but I find videos ideal to set the scene when I'm totally new to something so I can mimic their actual activity in getting things going.

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by jolmg »

diehunde wrote: post #64
VikingCoder wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

And the available libraries, and the tooling around it.

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by jcynix »

dfxm12 wrote: post #63

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.

I agree, many "educational" podcasts/videos could be turned into a text with pictures which could be read in less time.

Some rare videos definitely are worth the time, like those of 3Blue1Brown or the excellent Jamie Windsor (on photography).

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by raobit »

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…

Can you recommend any other people who are very well highly-effective programmers who are having their channels/sharing their experience?

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by notdang »

MiroF wrote: post #50
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…

This is great! Can we replace the original article with this, it's much higher quality than most of the ones listed and fills a gap in Youtube content I'd never been able to find (though I haven't tried recently) - that is: legitimately intermediate/advanced content.

The intention was to promote the blog, replacing it with a link to youtube will void the original intention.

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by notdang »

dfxm12 wrote: post #63

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.

Apparently this is the new way.

I've seen people who go first to youtube to search for solutions to their programming struggle.

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by asddubs »

dfxm12 wrote: post #63

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.

i think it depends on what type of learner you are. i learn much easier through video than through text, so for me a well made presentation, that i watch with my full attention while taking notes (i don't generally look at the notes after, but it helps commit things to memory), is a much more efficient way to learn about stuff. shame that there aren't that many videos beyond basics stuff

bad audio is a killer for sure, though.

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