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Cappuccinocasts: free screencasts on the Cappuccino framework
- pvg 17y agoI wonder how many people find this sort of thing more useful than a text article with a few well-placed screenshots. I can easily see how a video can be handy when explaining some highly visual and interactive environment but in this case, you're mostly staring at a dude's editor or browser while he types things and clicks things. A dude with the accent and cadence of a cartoon hypnotist, no less. The effort expended in producing a screencast must easily exceed that of writing up the same information. Not to mention ease of addressability, indexing, updatability, etc, etc, etc.
- jarrodtaylor 17y agoI don't find it as useful when learning something completely new, but it's been great watching railscasts once a week to pick up new skills. It fills in the gaps between screenshots.
- altxwally 17y agoI did felt like in a Kraftwerk concert sometimes. The idea of creating a screencast for showing how Capuccino works is great and I hope the author keeps doing this effort.
- erlanger 17y agoYep, it makes no sense, and you shouldn't need OCR to get code samples on your clipboard.
- goodkarma 17y agoHe includes links to code on the site. There is a GitHub repository with all code in it.
- tewks 17y agoI think that one or two solid, relatively short, screencasts can sell me on a framework or language... DHH's screencasts back in the day sold me on Rails despite his unique voice :-) After that, something that is text-searchable is really preferable... I started using Cappuccino on a project about a week ago now. I watched one Cappuccinocast, and then wished that some of the text-based Cappuccino tutorials were better developed. By now, I've found my way, though knowing Objective-C and Javascript really helped.
- btn 17y agoScreencasts are usually good to give an overview of something's capabilities, but rarely are they useful for teaching how something works. Unfortunately, talking into a microphone is easier than typing, and reading is harder than being dictated to.
- judofyr 17y agoWhy not have both? e.g. http://railscasts.com/ http://railscasts.com/ + http://asciicasts.com/ http://asciicasts.com/
- goodkarma 17y agoI look forward to seeing some new screencasts on that site. The last one is from May.
- Semiapies 17y ago"Free" screencasts? Is anyone actually straight-facedly trying to charge for screencasts?
- Hagelin 17y agohttp://peepcode.com http://peepcode.com and http://www.screencastsonline.com http://www.screencastsonline.com both charge for what they call screencasts. Arguably much of the content from http://www.lynda.com http://www.lynda.com and other video training providers could also be called screencasts.
- Semiapies 17y agoHuh! Thanks.