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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 smrq »

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, I hate it!!

I try and keep myself insulated from this kind of garbage YouTube but sometimes it starts to leak into channels I used to love. It's made me unsubscribe more than once.

The formula is so recognizable now that I assume it has to work on the majority of people?

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by itsAWindowsSys »

probotect0r wrote: post #71

I would find a list of good talks much more useful. For example, 'The Soul of Erlang and Elixir' talk by Sasa Juric [1] really sold me on Elixir. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE&t=1s

+1 for using YouTube for conference talks more than "watch me program" type videos. I love browsing through all of the Pycon [1] talks for example. It's annoying that each year is a different channel though. Oh well.

There are also a lot of other great videos in the channel [2] where the talk you mentioned came from.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMjMBMGt0WJQLeluw6qNJuA

[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by shortlived »

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 videos a lot but I absolutely need to write the code along with the person on the screen otherwise it doesn't stick. Coding Train [1] is a recent example that has worked well for me.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by roudaki »

andybak wrote: post #98
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.

Came here to say exactly the same thing. Video is a poor medium for many topics but especially for programming. It's so god damn slow. To be honest - it's the speech bit more than the video bit. Reading is better than listening to someone talk in nearly every way.

I honestly tried now when I am back in college because I just thought its a bad habit from old times when we learned pascal and basic from help files. But no after trying all the labs I could I started building my labs and just focusing on portfolio.

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by II2II »

notdang wrote: post #87
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.

I have found myself going to YouTube first for solutions as of late, even though I find the medium less effective for learning.

So many websites feel like copy-paste jobs these days that it is difficult to tell whether someone is talking from experience, they are rephrasing something they read by never tried, the content is scraped from another site, or even if it is automatically generated. YouTube does have its problems, but it is more difficult to produce fake content in certain presentation formats.

The sad thing is that books have even been sliding downward in my order of preference. While a great book will blow away almost anything available online, investing good money into a product that doesn't reflect my needs in the end is all too common. I suspect the people who review books simply have different expectations than I.

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by loco5niner »

udev wrote: post #107
raobit wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I remember seeing some videos of notch (creator of Minecraft) working on Minecraft. Watching that video I was impressed how much "courage" he had to try weird ideas immediately, see what happens, and not be afraid to mess up progress he has made, etc. Of course, notch, like antirez, are gifted, way above average, people. So we have to keep that in mind.

> gifted, way above average, people.

And it could be that that courage is one of the things that enable them to become above average.

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by gmiller123456 »

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.

Really depends on the type of programming. The "Coding Train" channel is pretty much all about animations, and it works really well for that. Same for things like OpenGL, Computer Vision, CSS, or UI design where the results are highly visual.

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by WrtCdEvrydy »

localhost wrote: post #105
jolmg wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The good thing is that it's well documented. As opposed to something like ruby, which doesn't have any complete language reference documentation, for bash everything is in the manpage, and it's not that long either. There's also the info-manual, but I'm doubting it offers any more detail than the manpage. They're both probably equally complete.

I never thought to look at the man page for bash to learn bash. Turns out it's 78 pages and looks excellent based on a quick scan. Thanks for the recommendation!

wait til you look at the man pages for man... it's awesome!
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