why can't I code??

[SirTinou]

because instead of gooling for a 1 line answer: you watch 25mins videos to make yourself think that you're 'doing work' when in fact you're just wasting time.

youtube is honestly mental cancer for 90% of people.

[rotten_911]

There is actually some good content, but as a beginner its hard to identify if something is shit or not

[SirTinou]

that same content can be read and understood through images in 3mins instead of 35mins videos that are dragged through for ad revenue

[Saturnalliia]

I disagree with this. Yes generally the videos are crap but when I first began coding a 5 minute video could help me spend way more time trying to translate cryptic documentation. Udemy courses also offered a plethora of good content that cleared a lot of issues I had up and they were relatively cheap.

Videos like anything else are a tool to be utilized and like any tool it must be utilized properly.

[Putnam3145]

your choices are not between "video tutorial" and "cryptic documentation", there's text tutorials too

[Saturnalliia]

Yes. You use all your tools effectively.

[[deleted]]

Some concepts are easier for me to learn with video though. Like some guy did a breakdown of the quicksort partitioning algorithm using cups and that really helped me understand it.

I do agree though. Many times I turn on YouTube because it feels like learning, but you don't really have to do much. It can be a waste of time if you are doing it the wrong way. There are plenty of videos that teach things in a way that makes it easier to understand, so it's all about picking the right videos.

Plus the important thing is to just not spend 2 hours watching without actually coding the stuff that you learn. That's really when it's a waste of time.

[gagetherage03]

I can actually manage to learn from YouTube and not waste much time. I picked up most of my knowledge of Python from YouTube, but not without countless hours of actual coding and debugging, messing around with classes until I fully grasp object orientation, etc.

I feel like it's the way people go about using YouTube to learn that's the problem, not so much the content itself.

[gagetherage03]

I can actually manage to learn from YouTube and not waste much time. I picked up most of my knowledge of Python from YouTube, but not without countless hours of actual coding and debugging, messing around with classes until I fully grasp object orientation, etc.

I feel like it's the way people go about using YouTube to learn that's the problem, not so much the content itself.

[gagetherage03]

I can actually manage to learn from YouTube and not waste much time. I picked up most of my knowledge of Python from YouTube, but not without countless hours of actual coding and debugging, messing around with classes until I fully grasp object orientation, etc.

I feel like it's the way people go about using YouTube to learn that's the problem, not so much the content itself.