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Discussion on: Video walk-throughs: "live" coding vs going through written code?

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Fernando Costa • Edited

It really depends of your schedule and experience.

Live videos usually go up to 4 hours. Fitting 4 hours in a workday without damaging your family/social/work life can be a pain.

Nevertheless, it's more rewarding since you can see the struggles and the approaches to solve a real problem. If it has a live chat, even better, because more people will throw in their solutions.

With an edited video, sometimes those problems are not even addressed.

I started to realize this, while watching the Coding Train on YouTube. Link below.

youtube.com/user/shiffman

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João Antunes

Yeah, 4 hour video sessions are not in my near future 🙂

I'm not going with streaming (at least for now), but rather uploading a stream like recording, which allows me to do the necessary breaks.

But I guess the key takeaway is that you find it valuable the see the process, and not just the thing done, good to know! 👍