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Ask HN: video/screencast sites for learning programming?
35 points by vijayr on June 13, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 15 comments
I know many of us here aren't big fans of video training/screencasts, but I watched few railscasts videos and liked them, would like to try a few more videos on other subjects. I found these in my search, I am sure there are better ones that I missed. Can anyone suggest them?

Lynda.com - looks like most titles are for beginners

http://www.railstutorial.org/vanguard - looks good, but expensive

railscasts - best free resource I found so far, but its just one subject

http://peepcode.com/ - seems nice, they also have a number of subjects




I noticed the links you posted were rails related, but here are some programming related videos/lectures.

Stanford Video Lectures Programming Methodology - http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=824a47e1-13... Programming Abstraction - http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=11f4f422-56... Programming Paradigms - http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=2d712634-2b... Machine Learning - http://see.stanford.edu/see/courseinfo.aspx?coll=348ca38a-3a...

SICP - http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma...

Google Tech Talks Advanced Topics in Programming Languages - http://www.youtube.com/user/GoogleTechTalks#p/u/16/wDN_EYUvU...

AI Lecture Series - http://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd#grid/user/6EE0CD02910E5... Software Engineering Lecture Series - http://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd#grid/user/8751DA481F0F0...

Python Design Patterns - http://videolectures.net/youtube_martelli_python/


TekPub (http://tekpub.com/) has some other tutorials more/less in the style of PeepCode. A couple of the series are free.


wow, this one looks pretty good, and it is affordable, thank you for the link.



I find Bucky's videos on Youtube to be very good. <http://www.youtube.com/user/thenewboston>; He has a large set of videos on Python, C, C++, iPhone dev, and much more. Short and to the point, with great examples. Of course, there's a lot of other good playlists on Youtube like his ones, I just like his style of teaching.


ThinkCode.TV (http://thinkcode.tv) is my startup, which is dedicated to programming screencasts.


Show me do (http://showmedo.com/) has a diversity of subjects, including programming.


You will find all the useful video content I could find here:

http://www.learnivore.com

(a side project where I aggregate railscasts, peepcode, teachmetocode, lynda and many more, including beginner and advanced content, paid and free).

Here are a few pointers to begin with specific subjects:

- http://www.learnivore.com/search/mongodb

- http://www.learnivore.com/search/%22ruby+basics%22

- http://www.learnivore.com/search/ruby+essentials

- http://www.learnivore.com/search/source/lynda

cheers!


Standford also recorded their classes on iPhone development and posted them to iTunes U. These podcasts helped me quite a bit when I was starting out on the iPhone.

Feed: http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Feed/itunes.sta...


These short videos about using Vim are good:

http://vimcasts.org/


Udemy (http://udemy.com) has courses from a bunch of schools (MIT, Stanford, Cal, etc) on programming and a bunch of other stuff too.


Pragmatic Programmers has some nice long-form screencasts on multiple subjects.

http://pragprog.com/screencasts


I'm not sure if this helps: http://programming.dojo.net.nz/


Afraid I don't have any others, but can certainly receommend peepcode - just hope they keep on growing into new areas.


nettuts.com has got some nice screen casts. Long ones are paying.




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