Ask HN: What is your favorite YouTube channel for developers?

100 points by pyeu ↗ HN
What are the good channels for developers on YouTube to learn about e.g., programming techniques or best-practices?

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Can't recommend Fun Fun Function enough - awesome sense of humor and super informative. If you want to level up, you'll be a better developer watching one of these every week.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO1cgjhGzsSYb1rsB4bFe4Q

Came here to post this channel. It jives well with my curiosity.

I was happily surprised to see him have 2 luna-lang videos come out less than a week after luna-lang made it on my to-play-with radar.

I have my own channel on YouTube for programming videos but I have to give credit to MPJ for being the excellent inspiration for me to start posting. His videos are both informative and entertaining.
I enjoy Bisqwit:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKTehwyGCKF-b2wo0RKwrcg

He often focuses on some pretty esoteric topics. In one video, he prototyped a simple 3d rendered in QBasic. I'm not sure if you pick up best practices from Bisqwit, but you'll probably learn some interesting programming techniques.

Traversy Media is an awesome resource for beginners and seasoned developers alike! Brad curates succinct tutorials all while humbly delivering the content in a way that makes it feel like you're pair programming with a buddy!

https://www.youtube.com/user/TechGuyWeb

Coding Tech takes programming related talks from all types of conferences and aggregates them into their one channel. Always interesting and always high level.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtxCXg-UvSnTKPOzLH4wJaQ

Also, Siraj: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWN3xxRkmTPmbKwht9FuE5A

Siraj gives you the quick and dirty on how complex problems are solved with code. Not really tutorials, but more of a "how to" you can use to start your research.

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Traversy media ++

Coding Tech

Derek Banas videos (for a quick 60 minute introduction to covered topics)

...among others

Sentdex is my favorite, learned python and django from him
I have a programming channel of my own where I do live programming streams: https://www.youtube.com/user/KingHerring I haven't seen anyone else do this. Check it out if you're into that sort of thing; I also plan on doing more tutorials when I have the time.

There's a lot of other good YouTubers I list on the channel's suggested channels sidebar.

EDIT: cbaggers is great for lisp weenies. He also does streams. https://www.youtube.com/user/CBaggers?app=desktop

James Long (jlongster) does this from time to time. I haven't watched any of his videos yet but I find it hard to believe that they wouldn't be interesting considering his talks/articles etc.

https://www.twitch.tv/jlongster

- DevTips (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyIe-61Y8C4_o-zZCtO4ETQ) for HTML and CSS. Some pretty things and a well-documented process (errors and all)

- CodingTrain (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw) for JS is good. You know how you sometimes come across a video of a teacher, and go "man, I wish I had teachers like this when I was in school"? Well, this guy is like that - really enthusiastic and great to watch.

- Avelx (https://www.youtube.com/user/avelx) is another great channel! He explains JS and programming concepts very, very well.

Then, for some more advanced stuff (frameworks, libraries, etc) there's:

- LeanWebCode (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHRp19HU7Y2LwfI0Ai6WAGQ)

- Kirupa Chinnathambi (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZCQ3LXtU3IUzMBQBqN69KQ)

- Traversy Media (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC29ju8bIPH5as8OGnQzwJyA)

- TheNewBoston (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJbPGzawDH1njbqV-D5HqKw)

- Finally, I want to mention Steve Griffith for some lesser known JS methods and examples of great code (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTBGXCJHORQjivtgtMsmkAQ)