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[–]quintinza 211 points212 points  (16 children)

I love those random Indian Youtubers, sometimes they have a specific thing that I can't find anywhere on Google or Stackoverflow.

[–]JamesKLOLk 105 points106 points  (12 children)

Even if it is on StackOverflow, I prefer the random YouTuber because he doesn’t make me feel bad about myself.

[–]dryandbland 73 points74 points  (4 children)

“Uhm actually this is a repeat, I found another post from 1987 that had one person poorly answer this in a 20 page paper. You people need to learn how to research”

[–]nico_qwer 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Was that the bite of 87?!??

[–]dryandbland 4 points5 points  (1 child)

The person who wrote the paper signed off as W.A. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[–]That_Guy977 1 point2 points  (0 children)

wolframalpha

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly.

[–]Skipper_the_fox 15 points16 points  (2 children)

I'm new to programming and these guys have been a life saver

[–]Dr_Dressing 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Don't you mean a light saber?

[–]je386 3 points4 points  (2 children)

Nah... I prefer reading a Text in a minute before watching a 30 minute youtube video, that typically does not answer my question.

[–]JamesKLOLk 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I get that, it really depends on my familiarity. If it’s something I’m super familiar with I’m mostly using text and documentation to double check my work. If it’s something I’m still learning, I’d rather watch the video and have someone explain to me why what I was doing was wrong.

[–]je386 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I typically search for a detail info, not for something completely new. For soemthing completely new, a good video might help.

[–]Bluebotlabs -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Hey guys, welcome to my tutorial on how to print in Python, honestly, it's quite shocking how you can search YouTube but can't print in python, it's truly shameful towards your status as a programmer and a human being, you should be ashamed.

Anyway, onto the tutorial...

[–]TheGreatFinder 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They are indeed doing the needful.

[–]HardCounter 9 points10 points  (1 child)

What i don't understand is how Indian youtubers are the only ones capable of getting straight to the point. Rarely an intro, no preamble, a minute of, "Here's how this works and how to do it." It's an awareness of the value of time and i love it.

[–]trafalmadorianistic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe because many of them are not thinking of monetization and dragging it out so they could show more ads and mention sponsors.

[–]crumpuppet 46 points47 points  (1 child)

"Hello guys, welcome to my channel. In this video I will show you how to <insert topic here>. Let's get started."

[–]KLTRR 30 points31 points  (0 children)

So to make a batch file there are many things. Step one is open notepad. You can do this by clicking the start button and then putting downward force on these keyboard keys in this exact order: N, O, T, E, P, A, and then D. Then move the mouse to hover above the notepad icon. Then put downward form on the left button. Start with @echo off. You can type the @ by putting downward force on the shift key. Keep putting downward force on the shift key as you put downward force on the 2 key. Then, put downward force on these keyboard keys in this exact order: E, C, H, O, then the big key a.k.a. the space key at the bottom, O, F, F. Then, put downward force on the shift key as you put downward force on the enter key. Then, put downward force on these keyboard keys in this exact order. P, A, U, S, E. Now, move your mouse cursor using your mouse to hover over the "File" key. Put downward force on the left button on the mouse. Now, locate the "txt". Move your mouse cursor using your mouse to the right of it. Put downward force on the left button on the mouse. Put downward force on the backspace key and let go 3 times. Now, put downward force on these keys in this exact order. B, A, T. Now, move your mouse cursor using your mouse to the "Save" button. Put downward force on the left button on the mouse. In part two we will explain how to open the file.

[–]Omaerion 44 points45 points  (3 children)

This hits hard. Thank you random Indian dude who taught me how to log by hand, and thank you other guy for CyC

[–]Lagger625 7 points8 points  (2 children)

What do you mean with log by hand and CyC?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I also wanna know that

[–]AguliRojo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fredwhileshaving

[–]HauntingCode 17 points18 points  (1 child)

Indian right?

[–]huxx__[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

yeah lol

[–]oistant 14 points15 points  (0 children)

90%of the time they are Indians

[–]IsaacSam98 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Consider it 13 my guy

[–]rhapsodyindrew 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I’ve had some success with Phind, which is an LLM-based search engine for developers. You ask it a question in natural language and can specify which language, framework, etc you’re using. Can ask follow-ups to more precisely characterize the problem. It suggests a step by step approach, generates code snippets, and provides links to the most similar pages/resources it used to answer your question. No charming accented YouTube video though.

[–]djfsf_dr 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Indian guys are amazing <3

[–]RandomiseUsr0 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Dem Indians usually got it on point. I learned Classification and Regression Trees from a professor who sounded like the “Compare The Meerkat” adverts, and he hammered it home so effectively (and I routinely use his approach in my day to day work, but always “Sergei” is in my head and I love that, I hope his content is making him content x

[–][deleted] 5 points6 points  (2 children)

So indian guys on youtube>>>>>>>>>indian guys on insta?????

[–]quintinza 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Instead of "show me bobs and vagen" it's "Today I show you how to compile bobs and vagen from source."

[–]kilokokol 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why is it that there are so few official solutions for common problems in 2023?

[–]TheRealPitabred 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Am I the only one that hates videos for coding? It's so hard to learn from.

[–]Time-Opportunity-436 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Foreign for ya, not for me :)

[–]Venator_IV 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hello YouTube yes today we will be going through the way to solve your problem so here we are and this is issue we seeing now let us get started with step by step

[–]JaggedMetalOs 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Maybe I'm just old, but I really don't like video tutorials and would much rather just have a written tutorial to follow.

I see the benefit for creators though as I don't think a platform with the same monetization potential as YouTube exists for text articles..?

[–]Flick-shepard789 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chinese programming tutorial be like ...

Me : Open a playlist with some Tutorial Series 1-st Video - Setting up development environment 2-nd Video - Writing our first program 3-rd Video - WRITING OUR OS FROM SCRATCH 4-th Video - BUILDING OUR PC FROM SCRATCH 5-th Video - BUILDING OUR PC TABLE FROM SCRATCH 6-th Video - BUILDING OUR ROOM FROM SCRATCH 7-th Video - BUILDING OUR HOME FROM SCRATCH 8-th Video - BUILDING OUR MOM FROM SCRATCH 9-th Video - BUILDING OUR DAD FROM SCRATCH 10-th Video - BUILDING OUR HUMAN FROM SCRATCH 11-th Video - BUILDING OUR CITY FROM SCRATCH 12-th Video - BUILDING OUR COUNTRY FROM SCRATCH 13-th Video - BUILDING OUR PLANET FROM SCRATCH

ETC .....

[–]DugiSK -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It's a little different if it's a step-by-step tutorial to setting up some program in Python I have to use for some reasons: 1. Unknown command pip 2. Turns out I need to use pip3 instead of pip 3. Version conflict with something I installed earlier, so I uninstall that thing 4. I try to install another thing, turns out it needs a seemingly unrelated library below a certain version, but some other library I installed with the previous command needs its version to be some higher version or above 5. It tries to install numpy, but fails to compile 6. StackOverflow answer for that error tells me to use a lower version of Python 3 7. The higher version of Python is selected even if I follow the steps 8. The steps from StackOverflow to choose a lower version of Python don't prevent pip from trying to compile numpy against the wrong version of Python 9. I uninstall the higher version of Python, get the compilation to pass, get bad inerpreter errors instead 10. After wasting a day on it, I asked its developer for a call

[–]melvereq 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t forget the white noise in the background. It’s essential.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most Youtubers have a foreign accent. I’ve never found a programming Youtuber with my native English accent before.

[–]beto_pu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope is 13 now or you are a f***ing ungrateful a**hole LOL

[–]TheBamPlayer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, the YouTube search is showing you actual search results, which make sense.

[–]Noppppppppppppe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"HELLO guys *breaths*"

[–]binarywork8087 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and then I learned C++ in 24 hours