There seems to be a trend of coding screencasts popping up online and I think its great. You learn coding best by doing and watching a screencast, actually seeing how the experts create and craft software is way more engaging and informative than reading it off a book. You can actually hear them talk about design choices and tradeoffs, see how they use IDE's/text editors and pick up a lot of best practices in general.
I think its a great alternative (as opposed to long/messy consulting gigs) for startups with solid technical talent to generate a stream of revenue and bootstrap to success.
I paid a dollar for the first video and didn't even finish it. I own Clean Code and think it's one of the best programming books ever. This video series however (based on the first video) looks like it's been made back in 1994 and the presentation is too jumpy and jarring with a lot of short edits to be taken seriously.
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