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Ask HN: Programming talks that made something click for you?

28 points by dprophecyguy ↗ HN
Hi I am an avid learner and mostly work with JS ecosystem. Throughout my career here and there I have stumbled upon few programming talks from Youtube, which just make something click in my mind and I consider them as things which made the mental models clear in my head.

Do you guys also have something in your mind ?

Here is are few famous ones to start with.

What the hack is event loop anyway ? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGhZQkoFbQ&t=265s)

Recursion (https://youtu.be/IJDJ0kBx2LM)

Functional Programming toolkit(https://youtu.be/Nrp_LZ-XGsY)

12 comments

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manx
"Simple made easy" by Rich Hickey
andrei_says_
I just watched his Hammock-driven development talk and it is excellent.
schwartzworld
Not exactly what you're asking for, but the LambdaCast podcast really helped me with some functional concepts.
olvy0
Sean Parent "Better Code: Data Structures" (2015): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWgDk-o-6ZE

I've been programming in C++ and using the STL for many years but this one really made me aware of what just might be the best way to think about it.