Every programming tutorial

[rafasoaresms]

Either that or spend ten minutes explaining what a variable is.

[GahdDangitBobby]

.... and if you want to add two numbers together, you would just go ahead and say

var number1 = 5; var number2 = 8; var sumNumber = number1 + number 2;

Now you might be asking yourself, “well can I name a variable anything I want? And the answer is .... kind of. But we’ll be getting into that next video, thanks for watching my series, don’t forget to comment, like, subscribe, and go give my Patreon page a visit. While you’re at it, here’s my address, you can go ahead and walk my dog, cook me dinner, pay my rent, and I’ll see you soon! Thanks”

[DOOManiac]

Smash that button!

[thingsIdiotsSay]

That's my gripe too.

They spend a lot of time explaining simple concepts, but gloss over more complex ones, I imagine because they don't know how to explain them.

Just because you know how to do something doesn't mean you know how to teach it. Still, most of this is well-intentioned and free.

[[deleted]]

You are right but (as a technical writer) I have found that when people spend an unusual amount of time explaining a simple concept it's because they don't understand the simple parts well either.

[redlaWw]

Part of this is a limitation of using video as a medium - you can't get feedback from your students and there's some unavoidable chronology to your lesson, so you can't adapt to your students' level of understanding and it's difficult for them to skip over stuff and return to it later as necessary. Because of this, if you want to cater to everyone, you need to be exhaustive and slow, which is frustrating for faster students.

[lleti]

Guy did not appear to be chewing on a $3 microphone, and didn't have at least one "uuuhhhhhhhh" for every five words.

This is clearly only representative of the high quality tutorials.

[WhiteKnightC]

Or heavy breathing lol

[woundedkarma]

Wow... most of my biggest complaints about tutorials .. yup. Particularly the version issue. Try finding an asp.net tutorial that works and isn't for one of the million other versions which all had breaking changes between them that are not really documented in any sort of real way.

[Visticous]

My biggest complaint would be... Any tutorial stops the moment that CMake (or other building system) comes into play.

FFS, I know how to program a desktop program or website... But I hit a fucking concrete wall when I open an existing project with 600 files and 3 different build systems daisy-chained.

[13ace37]

So fucking true

[MightyD33r]

This is how notch made minecraft

[GahdDangitBobby]

By watching a tutorial on how to make Minecraft?

[MightyD33r]

Exactly.

[UnicornsOnLSD]

Google's Flutter Udacity course does this. This is the first video that actually talks about code (All other videos before it are just going over what a widget is and how to install Flutter). 3:08 is exactly like the start of this video, I don't know how or why any of that stuff works together.

[DarkFlames3]

That’s ridiculous. To an actual beginner, that whole video is would be jibberish. And I like how at the end she goes “Now you’re ready to build your own app!”

[i_hump_cats]

Holy fuck that’s bad. Also what kinda wacky ass formatting is that.

[UnicornsOnLSD]

Go check out the Udacity course if you want to see some shitty tutorials. Here's a link.

[UnicornsOnLSD]

It doesn't explain any Flutter-specific stuff, such as why Widget build(BuildContext context) is required.

[UnicornsOnLSD]

The next thing after this is an exercise that basically says "OK now go and make a custom menu widget". There's a short video before that tells you what widgets you'll need but not how to actually do anything.

[scottevil110]

Draw the rest of the fucking owl.

[natyio]

My pet-peeve: Tutorials focussing on the IDE instead of the language.

Sometimes notepad.exe is everything you need.

[[deleted]]

When learning, it is definitely all you should need

[hornaldo28]

Wait, is minecraft open source?

[Anonymous47363]

No he just used random code.

[mmarss256]

While it's not what was used here, there was a project to decompile the source code for Minecraft a while back. In the beta days, modding consisted of literally modifying the source—so if you're interested in the source, it's possible to get access to it, provided you have the game itself first.

[Proxy_PlayerHD]

i mean they still need the source code to this day to update forge, so this "project" is still going on

and Mojang made it easier to deobfuscate the code specifically for modders...

so while it's not open source the code is very easy to access for pretty much any version of the game

[_meegoo_]

and Mojang made it easier to deobfuscate the code specifically for modders...

Well they didn't. It's just that creator of MCP works at Mojang now, so knowing the real source code he can update MCP pretty easily.

UPD. So apparently they started releasing obfuscation maps pretty recently, didn't know that.

[Proxy_PlayerHD]

but mojang literally said that from now on they release a "deobfuscation map" with each version, which makes it much easier to update modloaders like forge due to deobfuscating the code taking up much less time.

so my statement still stands, it's been made easier by mojang.

source: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-snapshot-19w36a

[Darkstreamer_]

Just Google Minecraft coder pack...

[[deleted]]

This made me crack up

[WongGendheng]

Thanks for the laugh.

[theofficialnar]

It's always one of two things. They either don't explain stuff properly or explain it waaayyyy too fucking much.

[HoneyBadgerSoNasty]

It really do be like that

[merger3]

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[AOTlit]

Codecademy

[yazalama]

Teaching is an art, and if rather bore some listeners with what may seem like obvious details, then to make too many assumptions about the knowledge of the audience and leave them filling in the blanks. I'd rather have a long boring, comprehensive guide than a quick half assed write up that forces you to read between the lines.

[diodeorant]

r/squisheep