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Ask HN: Is it possible to learn web dev/programming from videos?

7 points by Onixelen ↗ HN
Can you learn mainly from video tutorials? There are a lot of seemingly great paid ones out there and some also free ones. I'm having a hard time with reading but seem to be able to grasp concepts from videos fine.

I need to hear that I can learn enough mainly from videos to be employable as a web developer/software engineer.

I don't have a problem reading small amount of text like the description of what a function does and I can read Hacker News.

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imaginenore
You can learn almost anything from the videos, but you have to do your part. You have to code. A lot. No way around it.
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mtmail
9 users said yes and probably when you asked the question yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12650470

Looking further in the past you've asked this and similar questions (reading vs watching videos to learn programming) a dozen times https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Onixelen Are you looking for different answers from those you already got? Are you currently learning via videos?

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Onixelen
> Are you looking for different answers from those you already got?

I'm looking for a lot of yeses.

> Are you currently learning via videos?

I am.

gregjor
No. You learn from doing. You can't make mistakes to learn from watching videos.
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