Slashdot Asks: Favorite YouTube Channels For Web Development and Programming? (devandgear.com) 48
Dev & Gear created a long list of YouTube channels that offer technical videos to help you learn web development from scratch or just improve your skills. Some of the channels listed include: LearnCode.academy, Dev Ed, Traversy Media, Codecourse, and Wes Bos.
Is your favorite YouTube channel for web development and programming included on the list? If not, let us know what it is in a comment.
Is your favorite YouTube channel for web development and programming included on the list? If not, let us know what it is in a comment.
Linkedin (Score:2)
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Seems like one option, and I think that there are a lot of content creators for programming. I now discovered Clean Coders [youtube.com]. But there are many others in addition to the one in the article.
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I, "tuned in" to a channel by a guy called Brent Ozar or something. Supposedly an expert on SQL Server.
I asked him in the chat window why SQL Server periodically loses its mind, consumes all the memory on the server (to the point where you almost can't log on to the server) and then stops responding, which is seems to do every few weeks of constant up time. It requires that the service be restarted to fix.
His response was essentially, "it is designed to do that".
So I decided to watch some Fail videos instea
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Post sliding (Score:3)
I think these posts are anchors for "post slding".
Their purpose is to get a post in at the very beginning which is modded down and invisible. Then the author monitors the discussion, and if the comments are going in a direction he doesn't like he logs in to a different account and posts replies to his modded-down post. The replies are normal score (or he mods them up with points from other accounts), and take up visual area at the top of the discussion.
The effect is to push other comments (the ones he doesn
Response to swastikas (Score:2)
(A response to swastikas, which vanished by down-modding but it's still there.)
Re: Post sliding (Score:1)
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I'm just amazed at how much effort people put in to controlling the narrative on this site. I mean I love Slashdot but does it really have that much influence on political stuff?
You know, people used to read and write... (Score:3)
I can find information a lot quicker from a manual or article as opposed to watching a video.
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Assuming that people bother to write a manual rather than just make a poorly scripted and unedited video. This was one of the things I hated about Drupal back when I was working on a project which used it.
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Agreed and agreed. Good manuals... even PDF ones... are better than videos. You can search for what you need and cross reference between different examples or with other manuals.
And, the fact that a lot of the current generation tries to learn from videos rather than reading has caused a dearth of quality manuals. For important shit no less.
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Actually, the manual died long before video crap appeared.
First there was manuals (what was proudly called a "Reference Manual"). These contained, usually in alphabetical order a description of each and every command, all the options available for that command, and a description of the action of each command and each of the options, and any interactions between options if multiple options were used at the same time. For those of limited intellect there were also Storybooks (colloquially called User Manual
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Please not a PDF. HTML is better, it can have proper hyperlinks and I can open 20 tabs. Also doesn't mangle the formatting too much when I copy/paste.
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Please not a PDF. HTML is better, it can have proper hyperlinks and I can open 20 tabs. Also doesn't mangle the formatting too much when I copy/paste.
This. I hate endless scrolling through reference materials in PDF. Wish I had mod points.
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I can find information a lot quicker from a manual or article as opposed to watching a video.
For those bemoaning college degrees, this is what they're for: to teach you how to learn from written materials, including reference materials, without lectures, video or otherwise. The value of college classes is to expose you to introductory course after introductory course, until you internalize the pattern of how humans tend to organize information. Once you've learned that, you can learn anything, because you know how to read. Not the mechanical interpretation of alphabets or logograms and words and
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Most humans do not know how to learn, or learned how to learn nor do teachers teach it.
I have usually a good memory, that is all - I also do not know how to learn.
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Glad to see this high up. I'd be surprised if I've gotten even 1% of my programming knowledge from a video. When going "down the rabbit-hole", I find myself drawn towards c2.com and Lambda the Ultimate. Not only are they full of text, but they've got that 1990s website look and feel. There's always StackExchange too.
Of course, YMMV. There are plenty of other good sites out there, and there's usually a manual for the language you're interested in, such as the Common Lisp Hyperspec. Even Java had an onl
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I've seen that before and never went beyond the front page humor; but when you click on the top center link it does indeed have a good reference section. Thanks.
RTFM (Score:1)
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I assume you mean learning something complex with regard to programming. Some complex skills beg for video instruction. For instance, appliance repair where you can see the disassembly and follow along.
My favorite are (Score:1)
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Yeah what, sitting at the command prompt and hitting tab and trying each completion?
Doing is an essential part of learning, but it's the second step. Start with a manual or book. Then do.
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Can we substitute books for "written word"? I've learned from paper books, digital books, magazines, newsletters, web pages, IRC channels, email lists, etc.
I'll admit though that when it comes to learning programming I'm not sure if the copy/pasteable version or printed version that you have to retype (which I find helps internalize syntax, etc)
I guess my preference is for electronic, at least that way having it next to a editor while retyping is better than having to move focus, shuffle a book on the desk
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Printed is far better, and read the index (you know, the one at the back of the book) first.
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Maybe? Can't grep a dead tree.
Wrong medium. (Score:1)
You want something where you can control the pace of information input. Video is the worst possible choice. Fixed speed, complicated and cumbersome backtracking, not even copy/pasting. And you want to use it for something that is plain text anyway.
I'd suggest a "guide". Something as complete as a book. With an outline. Because the hardest to obtain, is the big picture of what you need to learn and what the core ideas are that everything builds on.
And "reference"s on the side. (E.g. W3C/WhatWG/Mozilla Dev fo
Do people actually do that? (Score:2)
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Yes, people actually do that. And the proof is in the quality of the "web development and programming" that you are surrounded by every day.
( tags omitted so add them if you are mentally deficient and don't understand the point).
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Jordan Peterson (Score:2, Informative)
My favourite channel for learning is Jordan Peterson.
Setting aside his specific content (and any objections you might have to that), there's a ton of good information about how to study.
For example, going over material is almost worthless - it's good for recognition but not for recall. Neither is highlighting important passages - it has almost nil effect on learning.
What *does* help is reading a chapter (or section, depending), closing the book, and trying to recite the information. Doing this is practising
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Different people learn different ways. While the "read and repeat" method might work for some people others may be better reading and then doing some exercises to implement the knowledge they just gained. Others may be better off re-reading the chapter again a day or two later.
What's important is figuring out what works for you. I found that when learning languages it was practical experience that really helped me. If I used/heard a word or phrase in context then it tended to stick.
I'd also be careful liste
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I'm pretty sure it's fear. A fear based on tribalism to be sure, but fear. Or what do you think the cause is?
Look for previous open source conferences (Score:2)
I'm attending https://2020.pycon.org.au/ [pycon.org.au] online today (starting in an hour).
You can see previous PYCon Australia conference video on youtube now and expect to see this years conference appear on youtube over the next few days.
On youtube you can find linux.conf.au fosdem and other conferences.
CodeBabes is the answer (Score:2)
Google Chrome Developers (Score:2)
I'm not a big fan of video as a means of learning coding, but the Google Chrome Developers YouTube channel does a decent job, particularly their Designing in the Browser series. Many videos are 15 minutes or less, and often have good examples. Some interesting coverage of new and emerging features, and the presenters aren't afraid of taking a dig at Chrome when it's warranted.
https://www.youtube.com/c/Goog... [youtube.com]
Paradox of choice. (Score:2)
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None.
Unlike our President, I can read.
Info on coding exists on the Web beyond Slashdot? (Score:2)
Why would you need to go anyplace else?
C programming (Score:2)
I'll add my own here: I recorded a YouTube video series about C programming on FreeDOS. It's "FreeDOS" in the title because I did this as part of my work on FreeDOS, but C runs everywhere. Almost everything from the series (except the part about console programming with conio) transfers to C programming on Linux.
I also wrote a web programming guide, which has embedded videos from YouTube. The web programming guide also contains more information than I could cover in the videos, including code samples that y
PHP programming (Score:1)