Show HN: My C# Tutorial Series: Coding Basics. How am I doing so far?
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Re: Show HN: My C# Tutorial Series: Coding Basics. How am I doing so far?
#2I got some good feedback last time, it's helpful to hear from other programmers whether what I'm doing here is going to help newbies. I swear I'm not spamming I don't make a dime for it anyway ;)
Re: Show HN: My C# Tutorial Series: Coding Basics. How am I doing so far?
#3I find interesting that you took the approach of explaining a console application instead of a form app. More interesting from a technical point of view but maybe less interesting for a someone who just wants to hack something together to see what happens. When I started using C I always found hard to follow this tutorial because I like to use what I learnt in my own programs but I really did had no ideas of what console apps to make. Instead with server languages (for example) I found it easier because I could create my website and therefore do something "mine". In the end just following the steps of a tutorial I think it's about 30% of the learning process. Making mistakes is a good 50%. And to make them you must try your own things.
Re: Show HN: My C# Tutorial Series: Coding Basics. How am I doing so far?
#4Why take all the pain of creating/editing screenshots, explaining through an article? You could have made a video instead. I personally prefer videos to articles when it comes to learning something -new-.
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#5Why take all the pain of creating/editing screenshots, explaining through an article? You could have made a video instead. I personally prefer videos to articles when it comes to learning something -new-.
I think it depends on the person. I much prefer text tutorials over video; it's too much of a hassle to rewind a video over and over again to see what the author is doing.
Re: Show HN: My C# Tutorial Series: Coding Basics. How am I doing so far?
#6Why take all the pain of creating/editing screenshots, explaining through an article? You could have made a video instead. I personally prefer videos to articles when it comes to learning something -new-.
Videos suck for learning programming in my personal opinion.
You can't search them for the thing you vaguely remember, you can't copy and paste code, you can scan them when they're too easy. You can't skip back and forth without loading delay.
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#7Why take all the pain of creating/editing screenshots, explaining through an article? You could have made a video instead. I personally prefer videos to articles when it comes to learning something -new-.
I suppose this is really subjective, but I prefer the opposite - videos (to me) are either too slow, explaining stuff that's irrelevant, or too fast, skipping through items too quickly. When it's too slow, it's hard to fast-forward, as you don't know when to stop, and when it's too fast, I find myself rewinding too often, hitting pause, etc. Just way too inconvenient comparing to a text with screenshots, where I can navigate a lot more efficiently. YMMV.
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#8Why take all the pain of creating/editing screenshots, explaining through an article? You could have made a video instead. I personally prefer videos to articles when it comes to learning something -new-.
I think it depends on the person. I much prefer text tutorials over video; it's too much of a hassle to rewind a video over and over again to see what the author is doing.
Agreed, I hate the trend to have tutorials as videos nowadays.
Not to mention that it also excludes deaf people unless manually transcribed, or if the speaker is clear enough that automatic transcription is possible, but I doubt that is possible with programming videos yet.
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#9Why take all the pain of creating/editing screenshots, explaining through an article? You could have made a video instead. I personally prefer videos to articles when it comes to learning something -new-.
I prefer articles, as videos often go too slow. It is also a waste of bandwidth watching a 1080p video of something that takes a few screenshots to express.
I wouldn't mind an accompanying video though.
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#10Why take all the pain of creating/editing screenshots, explaining through an article? You could have made a video instead. I personally prefer videos to articles when it comes to learning something -new-.
A video has several problems:
- it can filtered by a proxy according to the place where you're trying to view it.
- it may be too slow if you don't have a sufficient internet speed.
- you can't copy/paste the code.