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Re: Show HN: Watch People Code

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Post by sinatra »

isbadawi wrote: post #18
sinatra wrote: post #15

This may be a good place to ask this question -- I think I saw a website which had videos of how well-respected experts write projects from start to finish. So, if I were interested in learning how experts in golang write a web-service end-to-end (design, DB, write, test, deploy, debug), I could watch those videos and learn the right(ish) way to write a web-service in golang. I'm sure I'll learn a few other things to…

PeepCode did this with its Play by Play series. They were acquired by PluralSight, and the series is still going on there [0]. [0]: http://www.pluralsight.com/search/?searchTerm=play%20by%20pl...

This is it! Thank you!

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Post by zw123456 »

This brought back a memory from the way back machine. Back in the early days of computers, many of them like the C64 or TRS80 (circa 1985-ish) had an option to use a TV as a monitor to save money. I recall that I had a Trash 80 and it was hooked up to the TV with a cable splitter in a spare bedroom. There were a number of relatives and friends visiting and myself someone that shared my love of computing were in the there programming away, and really programming, we are talking assembler here. And after a couple of hours we came down to the living room and everyone had the TV on channel 3 and everyone was watching us (I did not realize the splitter was broadcasting throughout the cable in our house). I guess there was nothing better on back them before cable had 100's of channels. It was interesting to hear the non-programmers questions and comments about what we were doing and really how much they had actually picked up on.

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Post by krapp »

npongratz wrote: post #9

Along these lines, I recently started watching (and enjoying!) Casey Muratori's Handmade Hero , "an ongoing project to create a complete, professional-quality game accompanied by videos that explain every single line of its source code." https://handmadehero.org/

I have too.

I've only made it to week 10 but i've already learned a huge amount in a short amount of time (and only had to completely abandon my own code and start from scratch from the archived version once so far.) It's fun (and insightful) to watch half the comments disagree vehemently with something Casey said that day (const is useless? what?)

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Post by comex »

properpenguin wrote: post #2

I don't understand how this adds more value than the other places on the web. A blog, tutorial video, stackoverflow post, book, etc will provide more knowledge in less time than watching someone real-time code and step through the software writing process. I understand the game channels on twitch provide entertainment, but don't see how this will catch on widely. Would love to hear others thoughts.

When I've watched these things, I've tried to see if I could figure out whatever bug the streamer was trying to fix before they could (difficult without the ability to actually look through the code on one's own), and alert them if so. It's like a game, but you might actually help someone out.

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Post by petercooper »

sinatra wrote: post #15

This may be a good place to ask this question -- I think I saw a website which had videos of how well-respected experts write projects from start to finish. So, if I were interested in learning how experts in golang write a web-service end-to-end (design, DB, write, test, deploy, debug), I could watch those videos and learn the right(ish) way to write a web-service in golang. I'm sure I'll learn a few other things to…

http://peertopeer.io/ is another one that does this.
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