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Reading this made me curious. I'll probably check out the programming category tonight if I have time. How is the quality of those programming streams? What

Reading this made me curious. I'll probably check out the programming category tonight if I have time. How is the quality of those programming streams? What goes on in them? Do the streamers answer questions about techniques, etc? Is it just shoptalk/circlejerking? I'm usually a self-starter on learning things, but I can lose interest quickly if I don't get some sort of feedback or have someone to ask questions. MOOCs, forums, etc are a waste of time for me in most cases; too slow and impersonal. And now that I think about it Twitch/streaming would probably be a better suited learning medium for me.

rezashirazian 8y ago
The quality is poor. It's mostly gamer streamers trying out something different. They're usually going through a udacity course or hacking a crud web application. There is lot of blindly looking at the screen, reading tutorials or getting frustrated with compilation errors. They do not like to be helped.
- keithnz 8y ago
  I think this is an unfair characterization, there are some REALLY good programmers, some new programmers, and people at all stages of their programming journey. A lot are doing game programming, I'm less interested in this, but some are very interesting. For instance... https://www.twitch.tv/jessicamak https://www.twitch.tv/jessicamak Really interesting what she does, and an insane attention to detail. A HNer I watch when he codes... he does an interesting mix of stuff and has 30+ years of experience https://www.twitch.tv/nybblesio https://www.twitch.tv/nybblesio there's people coding games with robotic bananas https://www.twitch.tv/uselessduckcompany/videos/all https://www.twitch.tv/uselessduckcompany/videos/all .NET devs https://www.twitch.tv/csharpfritz https://www.twitch.tv/csharpfritz who also has coding streams with Microsoft Devs and numerous others doing embedded development, web development, backend dev, security, crypto, Rust, Lisp, C++, F#, Vimers, IDEers, VSCoders, Emacers.... all sorts. who
  - rezashirazian 8y ago
    My comment was based on random visits to /programming and checking out what people were doing. I didn't know of the streamers you mentioned, but I'd be sure to check them out. Looking forward to being wrong on this.
  - nbm 8y ago
    I was basically introduced to Twitch by Handmade Hero, and Casey (the host) seems to have brought a bunch of his contemporaries in as well. Handmade Hero: Complete game from scratch (nothing but platform libraries). Has spawned a number of small projects, like 4coder (https://4coder.itch.io/4coder https://4coder.itch.io/4coder) and Milton (https://github.com/serge-rgb/milton https://github.com/serge-rgb/milton) and a lot more: http://handmade.network/ http://handmade.network/ https://handmadehero.org/ https://handmadehero.org/ Bitwise: Complete hardware/software stack for a RISC-V computer from scratch (compiler, assembler, ...) https://github.com/pervognsen/bitwise https://github.com/pervognsen/bitwise Sean Barrett: He's the author of the excellent stb header-only libraries, does the occasional live coding video. https://www.twitch.tv/nothings2 https://www.twitch.tv/nothings2 https://www.youtube.com/user/silverspaceship/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/silverspaceship/videos Jonathan Blow: He's the game developer and designer behind Braid and The Witness. He's designing a programming language (JAI), works on that and shows off features, as well as doing game development, on his channel. (And occasionally playing games.) https://www.twitch.tv/naysayer88 https://www.twitch.tv/naysayer88 with no schedule VODs: https://www.youtube.com/user/jblow888/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/jblow888/videos Martin "quill18" Glaude: He's primarily a game streamer, but also a consistent Ludum Dare participant, with some high placement in many of them. He has a series of programming videos. https://www.twitch.tv/quill18 https://www.twitch.tv/quill18 Vods: https://www.youtube.com/user/quill18creates/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/quill18creates/videos They have different approaches, but mostly ignore the chat during the stream, but often the chat has very bright folks who can help out.
- NathanCH 8y ago
  Who likes being helped when nobody asked?

rezashirazian 8y ago

The quality is poor. It's mostly gamer streamers trying out something different. They're usually going through a udacity course or hacking a crud web application. There is lot of blindly looking at the screen, reading tutorials or getting frustrated with compilation errors. They do not like to be helped.

keithnz 8y ago
I think this is an unfair characterization, there are some REALLY good programmers, some new programmers, and people at all stages of their programming journey. A lot are doing game programming, I'm less interested in this, but some are very interesting. For instance... https://www.twitch.tv/jessicamak https://www.twitch.tv/jessicamak Really interesting what she does, and an insane attention to detail. A HNer I watch when he codes... he does an interesting mix of stuff and has 30+ years of experience https://www.twitch.tv/nybblesio https://www.twitch.tv/nybblesio there's people coding games with robotic bananas https://www.twitch.tv/uselessduckcompany/videos/all https://www.twitch.tv/uselessduckcompany/videos/all .NET devs https://www.twitch.tv/csharpfritz https://www.twitch.tv/csharpfritz who also has coding streams with Microsoft Devs and numerous others doing embedded development, web development, backend dev, security, crypto, Rust, Lisp, C++, F#, Vimers, IDEers, VSCoders, Emacers.... all sorts. who
- rezashirazian 8y ago
  My comment was based on random visits to /programming and checking out what people were doing. I didn't know of the streamers you mentioned, but I'd be sure to check them out. Looking forward to being wrong on this.
- nbm 8y ago
  I was basically introduced to Twitch by Handmade Hero, and Casey (the host) seems to have brought a bunch of his contemporaries in as well. Handmade Hero: Complete game from scratch (nothing but platform libraries). Has spawned a number of small projects, like 4coder (https://4coder.itch.io/4coder https://4coder.itch.io/4coder) and Milton (https://github.com/serge-rgb/milton https://github.com/serge-rgb/milton) and a lot more: http://handmade.network/ http://handmade.network/ https://handmadehero.org/ https://handmadehero.org/ Bitwise: Complete hardware/software stack for a RISC-V computer from scratch (compiler, assembler, ...) https://github.com/pervognsen/bitwise https://github.com/pervognsen/bitwise Sean Barrett: He's the author of the excellent stb header-only libraries, does the occasional live coding video. https://www.twitch.tv/nothings2 https://www.twitch.tv/nothings2 https://www.youtube.com/user/silverspaceship/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/silverspaceship/videos Jonathan Blow: He's the game developer and designer behind Braid and The Witness. He's designing a programming language (JAI), works on that and shows off features, as well as doing game development, on his channel. (And occasionally playing games.) https://www.twitch.tv/naysayer88 https://www.twitch.tv/naysayer88 with no schedule VODs: https://www.youtube.com/user/jblow888/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/jblow888/videos Martin "quill18" Glaude: He's primarily a game streamer, but also a consistent Ludum Dare participant, with some high placement in many of them. He has a series of programming videos. https://www.twitch.tv/quill18 https://www.twitch.tv/quill18 Vods: https://www.youtube.com/user/quill18creates/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/quill18creates/videos They have different approaches, but mostly ignore the chat during the stream, but often the chat has very bright folks who can help out.
NathanCH 8y ago
Who likes being helped when nobody asked?