3 ms·
> People learn by watching much better than they do by reading a manual Except so many video tutorials aren't "to achieve x, do y and z", 90% of the running ti
by musage 9y ago
> People learn by watching much better than they do by reading a manual
Except so many video tutorials aren't "to achieve x, do y and z", 90% of the running time is bloat. And that's not even counting the apparently mandatory intros and outros which talk about what is about to happen, or what just happened. I learn very little on YouTube because I'm must constantly distracted by how people misuse language. There's a whole lot of "content", sure, but precious little contained in it in relation to the bloat and the repetition.
> especially since documentation is rarely the first concern of most companies
That good documentation is less of a focus for "most" (do they have a clue or anything else to offer, or do they just come in large numbers?) companies is hardly an argument that worse documentation is actually better documentation.
- digi_owl 9y agoI wonder how many times i have sworn at someone slapping up a 30 minute video of their mug talking when the same information could have been delivered in a few lines of text. All because they want those tiny tiny Youtube ad impressions. This is why well received books rarely translate well into movies btw (at least if you try for one book, one movie).