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Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by diehunde » Sat, Sep 26, 2020, 1:39 AM UTC

justin66 wrote: post #110

diehunde wrote: post #62

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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

> 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. I don't know what you were expecting but those all look like colors from the original DOS and Windows color schemes. It's probably just a guy using colors he grew up with.

I wasn't expecting anything. It's just unusual. Anyway, seems he's just experimenting with colors. There's another video with a yellow background in his YT channel and all the latest ones have dark color schemes.

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by boogies » Sat, Sep 26, 2020, 4:59 PM UTC

mumblemumble wrote: post #55

colmvp wrote: post #32

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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…

Strictly speaking, 20 seconds of content would only require 9 minutes and 40 seconds of useless padding in order to propitiate The Algorithm.

The ten minute minimum recently changed to eight.

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by andybak » Sun, Sep 27, 2020, 3:34 PM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #108

andybak wrote: post #101

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> 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. This makes sense but it seems like an enormous price to pay in return for the tutorial not having mistakes. "We'll use a really suboptical delivery mechanism because it forces us to check our steps as we go".

Ah, but I don't think video is intrinsically suboptimal (I assume suboptical was a typo?) any more than comparing a movie to a book. There are pros and cons of each medium and I can't dismiss either. I love a proper 90s-style book for sure (No Starch seem to be really good at still putting these out) but there are plenty of times where a video usefully fills in a gap, particularly if you want something super up to da…

But the pros you give for video are orthogonal to the actual video-ness of them.

Your pro-video points seem to be largely "More up to date and more content is available"

So - maybe authoring/hosting/promoting/monetizing video is easier than with web pages? These are issues that could potentially be fixed and they have nothing to do with the intrinsic nature of video - linear, constant time usually with a spoken audio track. These are the qualities that I find problemmatic. I actually don't mind slides - they are linear but they aren't constant time and they work independently of the voiceover (most times there's a talk I'm interested in I'll find the slides and skip the actual talk - even if I miss some content it's worth it to be able to skim through quickly and not be tortured by someone's vocal quirks).

There's a few maths YouTubers I can bear - mainly because they speak extremely quickly and there's no fluff. I'd still prefer to be reading the same material however.

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by fomine3 » Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 3:58 AM UTC

mrtksn wrote: post #79

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.

Videos are great when the narrator reflects his/her thought process and adds relevant history(of how things come to that) when doing things. Articles can do it even better but can get very lengthy and people looking to quickly learn how to do something will seek short, to the point articles and missing out on significant depth. Of course just watching a video won't make you learn something but I think the situation i…

This. I like texts but texts not tend to include write's thought process but videos tend to.

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by jcrubino » Wed, Sep 30, 2020, 7:21 PM UTC

jklepatch wrote: post #30

I run EatTheBlocks, a youtube channel on Blockchain Development. Covers: - DeFi (Decentralized Finance) Development - Ethereum - Web3 - Truffle - Solidity smart contracts https://www.youtube.com/c/eattheblocks

Great channel Julien. Great information without too much of the standardized youtube fisheye upsell and "smash that like button"

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by davegauer » Fri, Oct 02, 2020, 8:28 PM UTC

localhost wrote: post #105

jolmg wrote: post #80

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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!

(7 days later) Also, check out Bash's `help` command. Shockingly good terse info.

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by Breza » Wed, Oct 07, 2020, 2:59 AM UTC

andybak wrote: post #101

petercooper wrote: post #82

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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 somet…

> 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. This makes sense but it seems like an enormous price to pay in return for the tutorial not having mistakes. "We'll use a really suboptical delivery mechanism because it forces us to check our steps as we go".

It can be refreshing to see the top coders making mistakes and instructive to see how they debug on the fly. I went to a Meetup where Hadley Wickham was the speaker (data science celeb). He made a mistake when writing code to explain a concept and it was neat to see how he suspected what he'd done wrong, found the issue quickly, and corrected it.