[krapp]

>But there are definitely entire weeks (or weekends these days) of video that aren't all that useful unless you're trying to build exactly what Casey is trying to build.

That's been one of my biggest problems with Handmade Hero - Casey isn't teaching people how to write C/C++ and build a game engine, he's teaching them how he builds one specific game and mixing his personal habits (and idiosyncratic prejudices) along with some very useful programming knowledge.

And he also shut down comments on the Youtube feed at some point, which I find very unfortunate. The commenters helped me gauge the BS factor for any particular episode before jumping in.

[RugnirViking]

'he's teaching them how he builds one specific game '

While I would agree that there may perhaps exist a better alternative, most of us have learned a difficult concept or two by finding a working example. This is that, but taken up to 11. Assuming you actually follow on and try to make -small- variations to ensure you understand whats going on, you will probably be in a great position