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Re:Essentials of Interpretation by codetrotter on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @07:05PM (#22551762)
Hey, I enrolled in your previous Udemy course about garbage collection last year and while I did not yet finish watching all of the videos I did watch quite a few of them.

So first of all, thank you for creating that course about garbage collection. The videos that I've watched from it so far were interesting and informative to me. (I've completed 71% according to Udemy but I must admit that I sometimes watched videos as I was going to bed and may not have been fully attentive at all times.)

Secondly, a small suggestion for improvement based on the first course: Since each piece is relatively short, it quickly becomes quite tiring that each and every video begins with a ~15 second long intro animation, most of which is just repeating the title of the course. I would skip that all together and make the transition 2 seconds long at most. Just enough to read what the topic of the current video is.

Re:Essentials of Interpretation by DmitrySoshnikov on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @07:30PM (#22551926)
Thanks for your feedback, appreciated! And glad the Garbage Collectors class is interesting. Yes, I'll consider shortening the intro in the future classes. Initially each lecture was a self-contained, and potentially with no related context to previous lectures, however when combined in a class, yes, it makes sense to make the intro shorter. In the Interpreters class I shortened it to ~5 secs only.