The twelve YouTube movies fresh developers mention the most
The twelve YouTube movies fresh developers mention the most
The freeCodeCamp community generates gigabytes of data each week. One of the most active parts of the community is the talk room system. Thousands of people dangle out there, talk about technology, and help each other improve their code abilities.
I frequently ask questions about the data. This week, I was nosey which YouTube movies people found to be the most relevant to their studies. So I analyzed the multi-gigabyte talk history from freeCodeCamp’s main chatroom.
Out of the thousands of YouTube movies mentioned, here are the twelve most-commonly mentioned ones.
What the heck is the event loop anyway?
This was a presentation by Philip Roberts at JSConf EU in 2014. The event loop is significant to how Knot.js works.
To explain the event loop, Philip goes through other essential concepts like callbacks, and asynchronous programming. He jams a ton of insight into an pleasurable twenty six minute conference talk.
Engineering Truth’s How to instruct yourself to code
Engineered Truth host Matt Tran interviews freeCodeCamp’s Quincy Larson, asking him for about tips for fresh coders.
A lot of fresh coders very first heard about freeCodeCamp through this 20-minute movie, which has been viewed half a million times.
Another interview Matt Tran conducted with Quincy on the same afternoon — which is also frequently collective in our talk rooms — is Computer science vs Self-taught vs Coding Bootcamp.
Coding Tutorials 360°’s Build a individual portfolio — Part 1
Dylan Israel runs a YouTube channel called Coding Tutorials 360°.
In this series of movies, he builds some of freeCodeCamp’s projects. In the talk room the most popular movie of that series is freeCodeCamp’s portfolio project.
After recording this, Dylan earned his freeCodeCamp Front End Development certificate and landed a full-time job doing web development.
/Reg(exp)<Two>lained/: Demystifying Regular Expressions
This 48-minutes talk by Lea Verou comes from O’Reilly's two thousand twelve Fluent Conference.
It’s a good summary of what Regular Expressions are, how they work, where to apply them, some very common errors made by fresh adopters, and tricks that people tend to leave behind or disregard.
Semicolons cannot save you!
Movie #9 in the FunFunFunction series by Mattias Petter Johansson. Here he talks about the role of semicolons in JavaScript.
Derek Banas’s JavaScript tutorial
This 2-hour-long tutorial uses examples to introduce JavaScript concepts, and how to manipulate the DOM. Derek provides an index in the description of the movie so you can hop to specific segments that interest you.
Note that he recorded this in 2015, so it doesn’t include the latest ES6 improvements to JavaScript.
O’Reilly’s Keeping Track of This in JavaScript
This 13-minute movie belongs to O'Reilly’s JavaScript Teasers series. It explains the often confusing JavaScript this keyword.
Note that this was recorded in 2014, and doesn’t include the latest ES6 improvements to JavaScript.
Javascript: Understanding the weird parts
This movie frames the very first Trio.Five hours of a popular course in Udemy trained by Toni Alicea.
The accomplish course is more than eleven hours of movies, but it’s not free. The course has been known to go for as low as $15 dollars during Udemy’s sales, tho’.
Chris the Freelancer’s How I learned to code
Chris the Freelancer trained himself web development, then recorded this 8-minute movie explaining how he did it.
He encourages people who want to learn on their own to use free platforms, tho’ he says there can sometimes be value in paid courses.
2016/2017 must-known web development tech
LearnCode.academy created this overview of what they think web developers should learn in 2017.
How to become a Master Web Developer
Stefan Mischook, a seasoned developer, talks about what you need to become an experienced web developer.
How Do You Get Enough Practice to Apply for Programming Jobs?
Eli the Computer Boy discusses why you need to apply to as many jobs as possible — even if you don’t feel qualified.
The most-mentioned non-programming YouTube movies
As a bonus, here are some enormously popular movies that aren’t directly related to learning web development.
Shia Labeouf “Just do it” motivational speech
Possibly the funniest motivational movie ever made. The original movie, and its many variants, have been popular in freeCodeCamp’s talk rooms since the movie was very first published on YouTube.
Write in C
A parodical lyric with the music of Beatles' "Let it be". The parody seems to have been sung for the very first time during the 90's when C commenced to become the language of preference by computer scientists. Authorship is unknown but a version was brought forward by Albert Veli. Sing along!
I’m not going to tell you what this movie is. You’ll have to click here and see for yourself.
Yes, this is one of the most commonly linked-to movies in the talk room.
If you clicked the link, congratulations. You have been Rickrolled.
The Mess We’re In
A presentation by Joe Armstrong, one of the inventors of Erlang, at the Strangeloop Conference in 2014. This movie concentrates on some of the hardest problems in computer science.
The “Java Life” rap music movie
A humorous rap movie packed with stereotypes about programmers.
freeCodeCamp’s Nonprofit Project Demos
People frequently link to this playlist of some of the nonprofit projects built by freeCodeCamp alumni.
In case you’re wondering, all the data was obtained from freeCodeCamp’s main Gitter chatroom inbetween June two thousand sixteen and March 2017. I ran a Python script to evaluate the data, then rated the observed YouTube links based on the number of mentions as well as how latest the mentions were. I made the final selection based on relevance.
Again, this list just scrapes the surface. freeCodeCamp’s community references hundreds of YouTube movies every day.
I also invite you to check out the excellent content that is available in the freeCodeCamp youtube channel.
The twelve YouTube movies fresh developers mention the most
The twelve YouTube movies fresh developers mention the most
The freeCodeCamp community generates gigabytes of data each week. One of the most active parts of the community is the talk room system. Thousands of people drape out there, talk about technology, and help each other improve their code abilities.
I frequently ask questions about the data. This week, I was nosey which YouTube movies people found to be the most relevant to their studies. So I analyzed the multi-gigabyte talk history from freeCodeCamp’s main chatroom.
Out of the thousands of YouTube movies mentioned, here are the twelve most-commonly mentioned ones.
What the heck is the event loop anyway?
This was a presentation by Philip Roberts at JSConf EU in 2014. The event loop is significant to how Knot.js works.
To explain the event loop, Philip goes through other essential concepts like callbacks, and asynchronous programming. He jams a ton of insight into an pleasurable twenty six minute conference talk.
Engineering Truth’s How to train yourself to code
Engineered Truth host Matt Tran interviews freeCodeCamp’s Quincy Larson, asking him for about tips for fresh coders.
A lot of fresh coders very first heard about freeCodeCamp through this 20-minute movie, which has been viewed half a million times.
Another interview Matt Tran conducted with Quincy on the same afternoon — which is also frequently collective in our talk rooms — is Computer science vs Self-taught vs Coding Bootcamp.
Coding Tutorials 360°’s Build a individual portfolio — Part 1
Dylan Israel runs a YouTube channel called Coding Tutorials 360°.
In this series of movies, he builds some of freeCodeCamp’s projects. In the talk room the most popular movie of that series is freeCodeCamp’s portfolio project.
After recording this, Dylan earned his freeCodeCamp Front End Development certificate and landed a full-time job doing web development.
/Reg(exp)<Two>lained/: Demystifying Regular Expressions
This 48-minutes talk by Lea Verou comes from O’Reilly's two thousand twelve Fluent Conference.
It’s a good summary of what Regular Expressions are, how they work, where to apply them, some very common errors made by fresh adopters, and tricks that people tend to leave behind or overlook.
Semicolons cannot save you!
Movie #9 in the FunFunFunction series by Mattias Petter Johansson. Here he talks about the role of semicolons in JavaScript.
Derek Banas’s JavaScript tutorial
This 2-hour-long tutorial uses examples to introduce JavaScript concepts, and how to manipulate the DOM. Derek provides an index in the description of the movie so you can hop to specific segments that interest you.
Note that he recorded this in 2015, so it doesn’t include the latest ES6 improvements to JavaScript.
O’Reilly’s Keeping Track of This in JavaScript
This 13-minute movie belongs to O'Reilly’s JavaScript Teasers series. It explains the often confusing JavaScript this keyword.
Note that this was recorded in 2014, and doesn’t include the latest ES6 improvements to JavaScript.
Javascript: Understanding the weird parts
This movie frames the very first Three.Five hours of a popular course in Udemy trained by Toni Alicea.
The accomplish course is more than eleven hours of movies, but it’s not free. The course has been known to go for as low as $15 dollars during Udemy’s sales, however.
Chris the Freelancer’s How I learned to code
Chris the Freelancer trained himself web development, then recorded this 8-minute movie explaining how he did it.
He encourages people who want to learn on their own to use free platforms, however he says there can sometimes be value in paid courses.
2016/2017 must-known web development tech
LearnCode.academy created this overview of what they think web developers should learn in 2017.
How to become a Master Web Developer
Stefan Mischook, a seasoned developer, talks about what you need to become an accomplished web developer.
How Do You Get Enough Practice to Apply for Programming Jobs?
Eli the Computer Fellow discusses why you need to apply to as many jobs as possible — even if you don’t feel qualified.
The most-mentioned non-programming YouTube movies
As a bonus, here are some enormously popular movies that aren’t directly related to learning web development.
Shia Labeouf “Just do it” motivational speech
Possibly the funniest motivational movie ever made. The original movie, and its many variants, have been popular in freeCodeCamp’s talk rooms since the movie was very first published on YouTube.
Write in C
A parodical lyric with the music of Beatles' "Let it be". The parody seems to have been sung for the very first time during the 90's when C embarked to become the language of preference by computer scientists. Authorship is unknown but a version was brought forward by Albert Veli. Sing along!
I’m not going to tell you what this movie is. You’ll have to click here and see for yourself.
Yes, this is one of the most commonly linked-to movies in the talk room.
If you clicked the link, congratulations. You have been Rickrolled.
The Mess We’re In
A presentation by Joe Armstrong, one of the inventors of Erlang, at the Strangeloop Conference in 2014. This movie concentrates on some of the hardest problems in computer science.
The “Java Life” rap music movie
A humorous rap movie packed with stereotypes about programmers.
freeCodeCamp’s Nonprofit Project Demos
People frequently link to this playlist of some of the nonprofit projects built by freeCodeCamp alumni.
In case you’re wondering, all the data was obtained from freeCodeCamp’s main Gitter chatroom inbetween June two thousand sixteen and March 2017. I ran a Python script to evaluate the data, then rated the observed YouTube links based on the number of mentions as well as how latest the mentions were. I made the final selection based on relevance.
Again, this list just scrapes the surface. freeCodeCamp’s community references hundreds of YouTube movies every day.
I also invite you to check out the excellent content that is available in the freeCodeCamp youtube channel.