Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (2015)

Re:Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Pr... by akuji1993 on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @07:34AM (#17073183)

See, isn't it a negative point for you, that you have to stop and revert the video to an earlier point frequently because of this. As someone who has learned a lot through video guides (which are my favorite medium to learn, other than just reading the docs), I think that talking slowly through complex problems is the better way to go, even if that means, the video will be longer.

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Re:Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Pr... by jwarren on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @08:10AM (#17073330)

Tbh not really, I often stop to investigate stuff anyway. I personally prefer to have it at my pace and under my control than listen through someone laboriously explain something I know in great detail.

But this is the great thing about the internet - there's so much information on how to make more of it, you'll definitely be able to find videos which are more to your taste.

I recently watched Andrew Van Slaars series on the Maybe type: https://egghead.io/courses/safer-javascript-with-the-maybe-t... - that was much more traditional and slower paced, and still very good. Maybe give that a shot if you found the Frisby stuff too frenetic.

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Re:Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Pr... by ballenf on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @09:21AM (#17073679)

I'd much rather pause and rewind than have the opposite problem: bored at slow or repetitive presentation but not knowing if I can skip ahead and miss something new.

Fast paced places the viewer in control. Too slow pace is like keeping them prisoner or feeding them via drip line.

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