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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 PsylentKnight »

sAbakumoff wrote: post #69
ravenstine wrote: post #46

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Post by dudul »

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.

To me videos are more akin to conference talks. They are interesting when they focus on presenting an idea, a technique or a pattern with simple code. An exercise where the code itself doesn't matter too much essentially.

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Post by APhoenixRises »

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.

For my first stab at learning something new I usually try on my own, but when I'm getting lost or things aren't working as expected I like videos, especially ones that weren't prerecorded. The number of times documentation either takes a mental leap or actually skips a step can be frustrating. It's also helpful to see where someone else makes mistakes because it's often the ones I would've made also.

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by mohamez »

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.

Nothing can top professional written books, I use videos as supplementary learning material.

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by andybak »

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.

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by Splendor »

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.

> There's no way to copy

Like physical books?

Re: YouTube Channels to Level Up Your Programming Skills

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Post by thrownaway954 »

_the_ best youtube programming channel i have found is webdev simplified:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFbNIlppjAuEX4znoulh0Cw

the dude knows his stuff and explains everything like your 5 years old which is _exactly_ what i want when viewing a tutorial site.

as an example... his flexbox video is awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYq5PXgSsbE

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