• Zeppo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      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

  • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    See a post about an interesting topic.

    It’s a link to a video. There’s no text describing it and no comments.

    Smash that back button. And downvote, if you’re into that kind of thing.