[dontremeber]

quick poll: do the people of HN prefer resources like this in video format or written formats like blogs or actual docs? i’ve personally found it difficult to self-learn from YouTube videos so if you prefer that, what about it do you like?

[asciimov]

Both have their places.

For me I'd rather have a good speaker talk and walk through the subject matter than read about. As I can process audio faster than text.

The other side to this is that blog posts are full of people that don't write well or who are optimizing for search engines. An extreme version of this is cooking recipe posts, but I've seen tech articles that are moving this direction.

[larntz]

I personal prefer reading docs/books/blogs in that order.

I also occasionally watch some live programming videos casually when I'm not focusing on anything and I've learned some things that way. For example, if they do something differently than I would have it's cool to see how it works and why they choose to do it that way.

[numbers]

If I'm just interested in something, Youtube/video formats are great. If I am an intermediate/advance user of a technology, I want docs and API references that I can search around on from time to time when using the technology.

[foxdev]

Video for getting started on a new topic, text for everything else. I find text guides hard to follow without a strong foundation.