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by sean_patel 3503 days ago
Not entirely true. How would you teach a course like "Ship your 1st iOS App from Scratch". It involves lots of different things that you can't do just with Audio. Like I said, Audio-only instructions works only for simple scripting stuff like batch files, or client side scripting / coding like Javascript (which is what OP's example is in) and HTML, CSS etc.

ETL tools like Informatica, SSIS etc also need a visual, otherwise you get quickly lost. And how will the instructor do it in just audio "Oh, on left you will see a toolbox, look and locate the one that looks like a grid, but not the one that has an X on top right, also not the one that has a red cylinder icon at the bottom."

The 1 caveat I see in video instructions is that you have to constantly pause the video and code and then un-pause again, if you are following along with the coding. I get around that with the dual monitors.