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What I hate the most titles!
I hate seeing something like: Why x is good and why you need to use it ...
I just saw a post on: Why Swift is heading towards domination and why you should use it
I've seen several tutorials use this type of titles when the tutorial barely covers all requirements -
I just read books and documentation and apply first principles. Less video content would be awesome, the pace of absorption is glacial.
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Specially on programming languages, I hate that all of them are on the absolute basic and assumes no previous knowledge.
For example: already having some knowledge in C, Java, Python, Haskell etc and want to learn more of C++.
All tutorials found are how to make hello world and how to declare a variable and other super basic stuff, not the difference of struct/class or pointer/reference.
I want tutorials that assumes previous knowledge and really showcases the unique features of that language. -
Title: how to do X
Content:
- 50 ads
- an introduction to X
- a history of what other people think of X
- how not to do X
- why some people do Y instead, but don't do that it's bad
- actually, Y isn't bad in Z situation and there you may consider it
- are you sure about X?
- 50 ads
- how to do X, but not really as we don't provide any code
...and people wonder why simple "code only" stack overflow answers became so popular... -
If they’re video tutorials just watching them back to hear how it sounds would be great
The number of dev videos I can’t watch because the audio popping or crackling drives me insane is itself insane
I don’t expect amazing equipment or even pop filters. But a basic level of audio adjustment can go a long way
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