I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels this way. Back 10-15 years ago I was learning JavaScript, Python, CSS etc and I saw people say “I learned programming from videos!” and was wtf, how? Maybe a video explanation could be okay, but trying to extract certain kinds of technical information from a video is maddening and takes 10x as long as getting it from text.
It works great if you’re starting from 0 - you see every keystroke, you get hours of background information you may or may not need. It’s dumping the entire process from start to finish on you. You can follow along, understanding what you can and copying what you don’t
And then slowly, more and more of the excess information is just things you already know. Now you’re looking at a 40 minute video that may or may not have one sentence of information you’re searching for, the entire thing explaining it to you like you’re a total newbie
I agree. If you’re starting something new and just want to get the gist of it, a video could definitely be helpful. Where I get frustrated is if I only want a reference for one or two specific things, and I have to skip through this 40 minute video to find the 2 sentences and code example I’m looking for.
If you need to go back and review it videos suck. But for getting introduced to it the first time they’re good. Udemy and other companies are just that. They also let you have text to review afterwards and even little quizzes.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels this way. Back 10-15 years ago I was learning JavaScript, Python, CSS etc and I saw people say “I learned programming from videos!” and was wtf, how? Maybe a video explanation could be okay, but trying to extract certain kinds of technical information from a video is maddening and takes 10x as long as getting it from text.
hard agree. I never have learned anything from a video in terms of software development… now working on my car on the other hand… many times over
It works great if you’re starting from 0 - you see every keystroke, you get hours of background information you may or may not need. It’s dumping the entire process from start to finish on you. You can follow along, understanding what you can and copying what you don’t
And then slowly, more and more of the excess information is just things you already know. Now you’re looking at a 40 minute video that may or may not have one sentence of information you’re searching for, the entire thing explaining it to you like you’re a total newbie
It makes me want to pull out my hair
I agree. If you’re starting something new and just want to get the gist of it, a video could definitely be helpful. Where I get frustrated is if I only want a reference for one or two specific things, and I have to skip through this 40 minute video to find the 2 sentences and code example I’m looking for.
If you need to go back and review it videos suck. But for getting introduced to it the first time they’re good. Udemy and other companies are just that. They also let you have text to review afterwards and even little quizzes.