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I'm not sure about beginners, but as a coder wanting to pick up other languages/frameworks quickly, I prefer text based courses with in-browser interactive code

I'm not sure about beginners, but as a coder wanting to pick up other languages/frameworks quickly, I prefer text based courses with in-browser interactive code editors. This allows me to move at my pace with minimum distraction and fumbling around, and also when I want to refer back to something later, I can find it in text much more quickly than trying to find the right clip and time.

asiachick 6y ago
I wonder if this is this a generational thing or a personal preference. I too generally prefer text with in-browser code editors. I can search text. i can jump exactly to the part I want to reference later. etc... But, AFAIK most people under 30? will chose a video on youtube over a text (webpage) based lesson at something like 10 to 1 or 20 to 1. Note: I'm pulling those numbers out of thin air, it's just my perception. It's also possible this is a youtube thing. Click on a single video about how to code something and youtube will start recommending more videos on how to code where as search for how to code something and find an article and your next search will not be randomly recommending more code articles Speaking of which, I think I would find this horrifying but what if google's search home page worked like youtube so that before you entered your search it showed 20 things it thought you might be interested in based on past search clicks. Scary but it might explain the difference.
- jagannathtech 6y ago
  You mean like if Google homepage had a recommendation algorithm like YouTube? interesting but it might be very compute intensive and not much be benificial to Google as all ads on websites are not their ads.