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While the actual videos seem to be ok, the title here is very misleading. 1. As far as I can tell, the author is a professor in the sense "he's good at teachin
by stncls 6y ago
While the actual videos seem to be ok, the title here is very misleading.
1. As far as I can tell, the author is a professor in the sense "he's good at teaching", but not as in "college/university professor". It matters not because of credentialism (again, quality seems ok), but because it misleads on the intentions of the channel: The channel is very prolific (1+ video per day) and clearly going for maximized views (meme-filled thumbnails with big captions), complete with donations, Patreon, and merch store (you can buy a t-shirt). Nothing wrong with it, but if an institution allows that kind of moonlighting, I'm interested!
2. The course is a playlist with 4 long livestream videos (2h, 3h, 3h, 4h). Still impressive, but it's not what the title is trying to imply.
Overall, it's hard not to call clickbait.
- stncls 6y agoThe submitter is actually the channel author [1]. All submission are of the form "Professor does incredible thing" [2]. You're clearly good at CS. You don't need to do that, please stop. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=I%20started%20a%20YouTube%20channel%20for%20making%20“theory”%20classes%20in%20CS%20easy%20as%20possible&sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=story&storyText=false&prefix&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=I%20started%20a%20YouTube%20ch... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ryandougherty https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ryandougherty
- OJFord 6y agoNot quite all. Ironically before this one by far the most popular was the one where he titled it 'Guy does blah' instead of 'Professor does blah'!
- musicale 6y ago> professor in the sense "he's good at teaching", but not as in "college/university professor" "Professor" is often independent of "good at teaching," but he seems to be an assistant professor at West Point.