Codeproject Feature Request
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Personally videos I feel are alright introductions into completely new techniques / technologies for people. However I personally am not a great fan of them because it "requires" you to sit through the whole video. An article I can skim through and jump to the relevant sections. Perhaps it's just because there are a far greater number of people who can write good articles than those who can produce good videos. I'm not criticising the idea, just expressing my views. So far the only person I have found who can pull of "talking" to teach programming so to speak very well (and that I enjoy) is Scott Hanselman[^] But then again I haven't looked through that many videos...
I think I would actively avoid articles that had videos, as before long the trend would be for those articles to not have any real content in the article, and I wouldn't want to spend the time watching the video. A couple of images and the sample code should be enough if the article is written well. I speed-read with a high retention rate. Why would I want to spend 10 times as long absorbing the same information, and have to deal with accents, screen glare (some bonehead will use a video camera instead of video capture software), etc. Just give me the content without the flash, please.
Grim (aka Toby) MCDBA, MCSD, MCP+SB SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue IS NOT NULL (0 row(s) affected)
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It would be great to watch old videos of people coding and see how coding is advancing over the years. See how peoples styles change and new thought processes. Ive had alot of people email me from my tutorials asking me to show them by example, but alot of my running examples are too complicated to post on a webpage. You know?
How difficult is it to show a head being pulled from one's ass? ;)
"Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." "There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."
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You know what would be kool feature? A way for article writers to add streaming video to their articles. It would be neat to teach people by actually showing them. I know there would be bandwidth issues and storage space issues, but it would definitely move codeproject into the future of code learning and sharing.
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It would be great to watch old videos of people coding and see how coding is advancing over the years. See how peoples styles change and new thought processes. Ive had alot of people email me from my tutorials asking me to show them by example, but alot of my running examples are too complicated to post on a webpage. You know?
Yes, would love to see the old hollerith punch card machines and an instructional video on how to use. NOT.
MrPlankton
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You know what would be kool feature? A way for article writers to add streaming video to their articles. It would be neat to teach people by actually showing them. I know there would be bandwidth issues and storage space issues, but it would definitely move codeproject into the future of code learning and sharing.
You could always put a link in the article to a youtube.com video.
Silence is the voice of complicity. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. -- monty python Might I suggest that the universe was always the size of the cosmos. It is just that at one point the cosmos was the size of a marble. -- Colin Angus Mackay
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You know what would be kool feature? A way for article writers to add streaming video to their articles. It would be neat to teach people by actually showing them. I know there would be bandwidth issues and storage space issues, but it would definitely move codeproject into the future of code learning and sharing.
:confused: I'm not sure I can handle seeing you ugly bum's faces! -- A great idea, if you solve the hosting problem.
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You know what would be kool feature? A way for article writers to add streaming video to their articles. It would be neat to teach people by actually showing them. I know there would be bandwidth issues and storage space issues, but it would definitely move codeproject into the future of code learning and sharing.
I might be alone in this, but I hate having to view videos to get technical information. I can read the text of an article at about 200 words per minute, which far exceeds the information bandwidth of video or audio (which would be about 60 words per minute max). Do you really need to show people a video to teach them which buttons to click?