Ask HN: Is it possible to learn web dev/programming from videos?

Posted by Onixelen on Friday October 07, 2016 @03:40PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Can you learn mainly from video tutorials? There are a lot of seemingly great paid ones out there and some also free ones. I'm having a hard time with reading but seem to be able to grasp concepts from videos fine.

I need to hear that I can learn enough mainly from videos to be employable as a web developer/software engineer.

I don't have a problem reading small amount of text like the description of what a function does and I can read Hacker News.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to learn web dev/programming from ... by mtmail on Friday October 07, 2016 @05:00PM (#12663863)

9 users said yes and probably when you asked the question yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12650470

Looking further in the past you've asked this and similar questions (reading vs watching videos to learn programming) a dozen times https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Onixelen Are you looking for different answers from those you already got? Are you currently learning via videos?

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Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to learn web dev/programming from ... by Onixelen on Friday October 07, 2016 @06:18PM (#12664343)

> Are you looking for different answers from those you already got?

I'm looking for a lot of yeses.

> Are you currently learning via videos?

I am.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to learn web dev/programming from ... by imaginenore on Friday October 07, 2016 @03:42PM (#12663404)

You can learn almost anything from the videos, but you have to do your part. You have to code. A lot. No way around it.

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Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to learn web dev/programming from ... by gregjor on Friday October 07, 2016 @11:29PM (#12665529)

No. You learn from doing. You can't make mistakes to learn from watching videos.

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