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So I haven't done any live coding streams in a long time. But I recently recorded a completely unfiltered version of myself coding for a co-worker who is learni

So I haven't done any live coding streams in a long time. But I recently recorded a completely unfiltered version of myself coding for a co-worker who is learning to program. I wanted him to see all of the ups and downs. All I did was turn on the recording and just went about my day like I normally do, all cussing and fiddling in my terminal like I normally do. Once you're on for 30 minutes or so you forget you're even recording. It could be interesting to take this approach then "stream" it as well so you can provide feedback to people watching and also laugh at yourself a little bit.

ethanwillis 6y ago
One thing I wanted to add is that as another commenter mentioned it can be a very "sporadic" activity. But what's interesting is that the craziness of programming really only happens at certain points, then at other points its very focused as everything just sort of falls into place. One thing I was trying to demonstrate to my coworker is that with experience you know where you're probably gonna go from the start but you still have to do all the same mundane bullshit regardless to start :)
nickjj 6y ago
I've done this a few times too and posted those on Youtube. Good times. Streaming could be fun, but if you're streaming something you're actively learning (let's say a new piece of tech while you build something), for me it would be likely 50 minutes of Googling and 10 minutes of coding for every hour. That's how I talk myself out of not streaming because I personally would get bored watching someone Google things endlessly.
- ethanwillis 6y ago
  Yea, I think that's true for us for beginners I realized it might be super valuable. They don't have those skills down and there's usually this perception that if you're a good programmer that you don't run into a lot of the same workflow problems they do. What they really get out of it is, oh okay this person's a human too but they think about the problems they run into in this way, I could do that too and get a little bit faster. And then also they don't discouraged thinking they're total "noobs" I always like to explain, no I'm not a genius I've just been doing this a long time. So anything I have a good answer on? I learned that through fire and didn't just pull it out of my ass lol.

ethanwillis 6y ago

One thing I wanted to add is that as another commenter mentioned it can be a very "sporadic" activity. But what's interesting is that the craziness of programming really only happens at certain points, then at other points its very focused as everything just sort of falls into place. One thing I was trying to demonstrate to my coworker is that with experience you know where you're probably gonna go from the start but you still have to do all the same mundane bullshit regardless to start :)

nickjj 6y ago

I've done this a few times too and posted those on Youtube. Good times. Streaming could be fun, but if you're streaming something you're actively learning (let's say a new piece of tech while you build something), for me it would be likely 50 minutes of Googling and 10 minutes of coding for every hour. That's how I talk myself out of not streaming because I personally would get bored watching someone Google things endlessly.

ethanwillis 6y ago
Yea, I think that's true for us for beginners I realized it might be super valuable. They don't have those skills down and there's usually this perception that if you're a good programmer that you don't run into a lot of the same workflow problems they do. What they really get out of it is, oh okay this person's a human too but they think about the problems they run into in this way, I could do that too and get a little bit faster. And then also they don't discouraged thinking they're total "noobs" I always like to explain, no I'm not a genius I've just been doing this a long time. So anything I have a good answer on? I learned that through fire and didn't just pull it out of my ass lol.