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A few years back I found the youtube series where it was creating a video game from scratch. The pace was too much for me to commit to but for a number of episo

A few years back I found the youtube series where it was creating a video game from scratch. The pace was too much for me to commit to but for a number of episodes (feels funny calling them that) I was able to follow along. I've tried other sites in video format and found its hard because the presenter will fly through whatever and you start to feel lost. I found myself pausing videos for some period of time and trying to catch up and that is jarring. Sometimes the presenter will have some setup or just mention a config and if you aren't on the exact same version of IDE/editor then everything looks different and you're lost. Then there is the larger problem of older videos are 100% irrelevant if the stack of tech they use has had recent updates. Maybe this is more game programming related because major version changes will have menus moving around or new/different options. I would imagine a new person to web development would feel the same if videos were on IDE version 1 and that IDE is on version 3 now (replace IDE with editor or whatever you use). When I tinker with something new and there is a written setup guide, its much easier to follow along. I almost think video streams aren't the right format for learning.

bkq 5y ago
I think a stream format could work if it was heavily focussed and structured. The main developer of SerenityOS [1][2] I know streams the work they do fairly often, and aims to keep segments within an hour, and focussed on a single issue. I think an ideal structure would be 1 hour of focussed work, where you explain what you're doing, followed by a Q&A session where you could go into detail about the decisions you made. Typically with most programming streams what happens is you watch people silently mash the keys on their keyboard, whilst listening to music, and occasionally talking to themselves about what they're doing, and not really imparting that much knowledge or interacting much. [1] https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling/videos [2] https://serenityos.org/ https://serenityos.org/

bkq 5y ago

I think a stream format could work if it was heavily focussed and structured. The main developer of SerenityOS [1][2] I know streams the work they do fairly often, and aims to keep segments within an hour, and focussed on a single issue. I think an ideal structure would be 1 hour of focussed work, where you explain what you're doing, followed by a Q&A session where you could go into detail about the decisions you made. Typically with most programming streams what happens is you watch people silently mash the keys on their keyboard, whilst listening to music, and occasionally talking to themselves about what they're doing, and not really imparting that much knowledge or interacting much. [1] https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling/videos [2] https://serenityos.org/ https://serenityos.org/