Re:Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch
by 49531 on Saturday July 08, 2017 @08:04AM
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Vocalizing your stream of consciousness is very handy any time you are programming in front of others. I have found it to be especially useful during interviews, or while working with mentors/mentees.
Re:Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch
by mdmnk on Saturday July 08, 2017 @09:39AM
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> a joint channel of shared programming content and have many different programmers participating
I like that idea a lot -- have been wanting to team up with other devs on live twitch projects. If anyone is interested in getting this set up be sure to PM me -- I have 14 years of dev experience in a plethora of languages:
- Python - C# - Ruby - PHP - Javascript (front and backend) - HTML / CSS
Re:Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch
by tekknolagi on Saturday July 08, 2017 @12:40PM
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I would be interested in joining! I'm working on (among some other things) a compiler right now that could be fun to live stream.
Don't expect anyone from Twitch to randomly discover your stream and have any idea what you're doing. Programming anything that isn't a video game on Twitch will be totally unfamiliar to their primary demographics. That said, use Twitter or something else to BRING YOUR OWN AUDIENCE. Be prepared to stream for a few hours or else you will likely never build up traction in your chat.
As this post says, vocalizing your stream of consciousness is vital; think of it like pair programming with the chat. I try to engage the chat without getting totally nerd sniped and ending up off topic.
I think the best way to really kick the tires on Twitch programming content would be to stream podcasts and/or have a joint channel of shared programming content and have many different programmers participating either via a shared account or Twitch Teams[0].
[0]: https://twitchtips.com/twitch-teams/