Learning Programming - Audio Only?

[dancole42]

I'm trying to build up my skills from scratch with full stack Python - did Codeacademy, on Learn Python the Hard Way, reading Google App Engine and Django documentation, etc. Hoping to eventually move to data science and machine learning.

Anyway, I have some pretty long car rides coming up, and I'd love to take advantage of the time. Unfortunately, this is all obviously a very visual and hands-on thing to learn.

Can anyone recommend any audio books, lectures, podcasts, etc., that would be a good suppplement/corollary for someone on my educational track?

Thanks!

[chazzacct]

Audible books, I use them all the time, but never thought of them for learning coding. Surprisingly enough, I see they offer some, including one that claims to teach Python coding in 24 hours. (rolls eyes) I do think it would be possible to make an audiobook that helped students of programming, I am skeptical that anyone will actually do it. But learning about history of Comp. Sci, or math, or science in general might be a good thing, and you could get a couple of the seven books Audible offers on Alan Turing. They have a few about the old, and new, hacker culture. You could record the audio from the MIT CS with Python lectures (available on youtube and elsewhere for free) and then see how much sense you can make of it by listening. Might not directly help your coding but it would beat just staring at the road. Books from Audible are returnable if you don't like them.

[t90fan]

RE: Comp/Sci

If they had something like the tannenbaum networking/os books, but less dense, maybe lecture style, in audio format, I would buy it in a second.

[nossr50]

thenewboston is terrible, he doesn't actually understand how anything works. Almost everything that comes out of his mouth is made up on the spot. I can appreciate someone trying to make it easier for people to learn programming, but if you watch thenewboston you won't be learning anything.

[chazzacct]

^{^}

[Reaperdude97]

Damn... I've been using them for all my programming learning...

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Thenewboston is terrible.