Show HN: Beyond the Basics Tutorials

2 points by rajeshpillai 6 years ago | 0 comments

I am creating some beyond the basics tutorials by recreating, enhancing existing libraries and frameworks using vanilla ES6/JavaScript.

The attached one is 1st draft version of coding your own react hooks like functionality in es6.

https://youtu.be/oiRWe1Da-Do

Do you think this kind of content is useful for beginner to mid level programmers.

What kind of content would most programmers/engineers be interested in?

I am primarily targetting #javascript/ #node.js as language of choice.

brudgers 6 years ago |

It sounds like an interesting project. I'm personally biased toward reading about things like this. In terms of videos, I am biased toward talks. Personally, I've looked at enough computer screens that I cannot watch videos of computer screens for very long particularly in real time. But that is just me and the potential audience includes a lot of people that are not like me.

And of course this is just the draft version. In general though, I don't think screen casts are a good fit for high level concepts. They are a good fit for instruction manuals like how a particular IDE works. Screen cast videos show better than they tell. This project seems more like telling than showing. Good luck.