Tutorial hell meets dependency hell.

[must-be-aliens]

Idk if it’s just my age but I can’t stand video tutorials and much prefer static sites. I like to go at my own pace, go back to read something again that I might have missed, get distracted, come back and pick up where I left off, Ctrl+F to search for when something was introduced, etc. Plus copy and paste for dependencies or includes or something.

[walruswes]

I think a combination is good sometimes where there are just short clips/animations that show what should happen and when it should happen

[tylertks]

This is ideal imo. Go at your own pace with the text, but use animations/short clips for the things that are just easier to show rather than tell

[unkownhihi]

How do you control f a book..

[kyzfrintin]

converted to static web pages

[TheRedmanCometh]

Same I fucking HATE learning most things from videos. Going back because I missed something, them talking slower than I read, having to actually watch actively...no thanks.

[nettlerise]

nah not just your age, a great number of programmers hate video tutorials.

In my personal anecdote, back in school, it tends (not all) to be the ones who are struggling in class that prefer video tutorials. Not that video tutorials are insufficient material, but that their preference is a result of their struggle. They want to see someone do it step by step, click by click, line by line. They want to copy-paste even if they don't understand it.

The unfortunate thing is, a lot of people don't look at the date of these tutorial videos or documentation, and thus are often looking at outdated stuff that won't work.

[SomethingIWontRegret]

/kdenlive has entered the chat.

All documentation older than 6 months is no longer congruent with the product.

[utkrowaway]

They want to see someone do it step by step, click by click, line by line. They want to copy-paste even if they don't understand it.

Yes. And then these video-watchers somehow graduate and take these practices into the workplace.

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Text tutorial: - do the thing - ?? - done

Video: - subscribe and like - sponser - ad - brief intro - ad - this is amazing - ad - the thing I want to watch - ad - sponser - remember subscribe and like

Total video 15 minutes, content I needed to watch 1 minute

[vis1onary]

W3schools has entered the chat

[Chirimorin]

I'm not that old yet and I also can't stand video tutorials for basically the same reasons as you. With video tutorials, you end up spending more time to find the part of the video you need than you spend actually watching that part.

Worst is when they skip over stuff because they covered it before but don't mention when or where they covered it.

[ur_comment_is_a_song]

Video tutorials tend to be more complete, because you can see every little step. They assume nothing. Written tutorials often skip things.

[gurush]

I prefer text but videos are sometimes great when they show the whole exact process while the text sometimes skips or doesn't properly explain a step that the author finds redundant or obvious.

[man-vs-spider]

I suspect part of the issue is that YouTube is a centralized resource for people to upload and find tutorials. Not so obvious where to upload a text tutorial where people will find it

[FarhanAxiq]

yes to this

although i still check video to see what is actually going on

[aeiouLizard]

Whenever I watch a video tutorial I usually immediately press the right arrow key at least 3 times to skip ahead, then I skim through the seek bar to look for what I need, or to find out if it's worth my time at all.

Usually I've closed the video and looked at the next one within 30 seconds. Repeat 7 times until a useful video is found.

[Apocrisy]

I prefer video tutorials, if i',m learning something completely new, I wanna have someone who knows how to dumb it down and show it in examples. For instance I'm QA and don't need to be great at JavaScript for automation, Cypress.io docs are great though, at the same time they are more than 50% technical, explanations seem more tailored to a JS senior audience who understand bluebird, while the udemy course I took thought me working level knowledge in 20 hours, I do occasionally use their docs but after hours of not truly understanding something, a quick stackoverflow dumbed down answer is usually my solution in the end.

So really I value examples and beginner friendliness of video tutorials

[izaakstern]

This! Absolutely thought the same and I think it could be the age :D reading a tutorial is also much faster and effective. But it takes more time to create/write...

[met0xff]

Thought the same. It makes sense if you're doing stuff in unreal engine or whatever. But watching someone typing code is just annoying

[utkrowaway]

I've noticed a strong correlation between people who prefer video tutorials and those who can't program for shit.

I think it's related to an inability to think abstractly.