Would anybody be interested...

[centip3de]

Hi all,

As I'm going off to college soon, I've been thinking about my future career quite often. I was thinking about possibly becoming a Professor in computer science at a university as a future career. But if I do go down that path, I make 50 grand a year (which is pretty shit compared to other computer jobs), would most likely have to live near a college town (which would make traffic suck ass), and would not get all that much respect. Though, it would be a extremely gratifying job in my opinion and I would get summers off.

So, I thought that I should get some experience with teaching other people and see if that's truly the path I want to go down. So I've been considering doing YouTube tutorials on programming in C, but with a different approach. In my opinion, all of the YouTube tutorials pretty much blow. They either make it extremely basic, leaving out complex parts that are usually necessary (thenewboston). Or, they make everything extremely complicated, and don't ever elaborate on what or why it's that way (no examples off the top of my head). Thus, I was thinking about doing my own version that would (possibly) include animations that would further help connections from programming topics to real life objects. For instance; I would initially describe programming in the form of writing a list of things to do. Then, slowly integrating programming like things into it (If this is done, then do this, if that is done, then do this, blah, blah). Or, I would explain TCP vs UDP connections with balls (if you have a gym teacher who is judging how many balls you and a partner are able to throw and catch in a minute, and each one of you has thirty balls all going at once (you and your friend are super humans), if you lose one ball (or packet), it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. (TCP)). So, would anybody be interested in these videos? Or would it be a waste of my time?

TL;DR : Was thinking about making an animated YouTube series about C programming, would anybody be interested?

~Cent

[limdis]

I find it pretty honorable when I hear about people wanting to teach out of passion, instead of doing it for a just a job. So +1.
The videos sound pretty cool, I would check them out.

[LoGiCaL__]

Yeah I don't see why the hell not. I was hoping you were gonna do some ASM but I would still check out the C videos. I wish you luck in becoming a professor or whatever you end up deciding to do. Remember, if you become a professor or end up settling for selling yourself on the street corner, you are always welcome here at HTS.

[centip3de]

Hi all,

Yeah I don't see why the hell not. I was hoping you were gonna do some ASM but I would still check out the C videos. I wish you luck in becoming a professor or whatever you end up deciding to do. Remember, if you become a professor or end up settling for selling yourself on the street corner, you are always welcome here at HTS.

Hmmm, I never thought about doing some ASM. That actually might be better, as there are literally 0 videos on ASM and I had to learn 98% of it from trial and error, reading other source code, or reverse engineering. But I want to start slow, and get people acclimated to programming. I mean, I just finished writing the basic outline for the first video which just is titled 'What is programming?', where I show them the basic programming fashion (if x, then y), and how they already use it in everyday life (I'll PM the script to those who are interested). If I get enough of a following, or finish my C series, I'll definitely start making ASM videos.

I find it pretty honorable when I hear about people wanting to teach out of passion, instead of doing it for a just a job. So +1.The videos sound pretty cool, I would check them out.

Thanks!

~Cent

[LoGiCaL__]

Well, either way post back when you're done. It may be a good place to point the new people that come in and want to learn a language but haven't had any programming experience yet.

[deathwillcome800]

I would love seeing videos on C that was 1 of my plans to learn that so yea make it. it would get a lot of view hopefully hehe

[WallShadow]

Dear centip3de,

I would greatly appreciate it if you would do video tutorials on various concepts of C or maybe even assembly. I think it would greatly benefit everyone, especially on this site if people start making a big deal out of it. If you make very descriptive and informative videos, I would promote it to everyone I know interested in this stuff. But if you do decide to make videos, please don't start of with the beginner's stuff. As you stated, there are already enough videos about how to make a "Hello World!!1" program out there to spam google to death. Thanks.

[centip3de]

Dear centip3de,

I would greatly appreciate it if you would do video tutorials on various concepts of C or maybe even assembly. I think it would greatly benefit everyone, especially on this site if people start making a big deal out of it. If you make very descriptive and informative videos, I would promote it to everyone I know interested in this stuff. But if you do decide to make videos, please don't start of with the beginner's stuff. As you stated, there are already enough videos about how to make a "Hello World!!1" program out there to spam google to death. Thanks.

Hi,

Well, despite how it may have come across, I'm not doing this solely for HTS. The fact that HTS users would get to use it is merely a positive by-product. The main purpose of this project, is to teach people how to program in a simplistic way, starting from the ground up. If you don't want to watch my videos on the beginner aspects of programming, don't. While I would love for you guys to watch them, if you don't want to, you don't have to. If you only want to watch my videos on C, ASM, or whatever, then by all means go for it.

~Cent

[Capacx]

Yes please, planning on learning to program
this summer, would be great if you made some python videos as well =D ( planning on teaching myself python, and HTML, although I may just learn C and HTML instead by followIng your vids)

[centip3de]

Yes please, planning on learning to program
this summer, would be great if you made some python videos as well =D ( planning on teaching myself python, and HTML, although I may just learn C and HTML instead by followIng your vids)

Hi,

Unfortunately, like I stated above, I can't suit everyone. These videos will be on C and ASM.

~Cent