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Books. I'm okay with videos: they definitely add something to the discussion, particularly when deciding if I want to learn something. But for me, when trying
by davelnewton 10y ago
Books.
I'm okay with videos: they definitely add something to the discussion, particularly when deciding if I want to learn something.
But for me, when trying to go deep, I prefer being able to flip pages (e-books are great for reference, not as great for deep reading, for me) and the information percolates better.
But you should also control for the age of the respondents--I'm relatively old at 48.
- jfaucett 10y agoI don't think this is age dependent. I prefer books to videos for learning programming stuff and I'm in my late 20s. The book/ebook gives me time to review/parse/think about what the code is doing. I can also proceed at my own pace, skimming over stuff thats irrelevant and spending more time on parts I need to think about. Doing any of that is difficult with a video.
- davelnewton 10y agoI suspect there's a correlation between age and preference, but this is (a) just a hunch, and (b) just a generality--there are always outliers.