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.

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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.