No doubt, many of us learnt how to code from YouTube.
@CodeByNZ I learn the fundamentals in high school
@CodeByNZ Videos are not my thing, official documentation and pdfs all the way.
Not here. First computer was a Tandy 1000EX in 1987. Parents bought me the computer and said I could not turn it on until I read every manual. One of those was a manual of GW Basic. That began my adventure. Learned Pascal shortly after that and started leading our HS programming team for competitions. YouTube, wasn’t a thing. We had to read manuals!
@CodeByNZ Can confirm — YouTube taught me more than half my lower level CS classes, minus the $40k invoice.
@CodeByNZ Absolutely it is. Binge watched tons of videos Now using AI for the roadmap and for explaining small parts And still watch yt for the majority of the time
@CodeByNZ The others learned from a magazine sent once month or quarterly with code so we could program our pc Jr, Commodore or atari. When Radio Shack was the center for neighborhood entrepreneurs.
@CodeByNZ So true, I would say that 90% of the knowledge I have rn is from YouTube. So grateful of having this tools that allows you to learn from so many different people in every subject.
@CodeByNZ i highly doubt you must have had an instructor or mentor at some point you cannot tell me what you know today or learnt and earn today with your skill, you got it all from the internet
@CodeByNZ I would say 30% and 70% trail and error and asking Ai and Forums
@CodeByNZ Mainly stack overflow - but feels like a relic of a bygone era now.
@CodeByNZ Everybody who did great or is doing great did it through self study. Even a guy in college does great things because he does independent things on the side.
@CodeByNZ I learned most of it from documentation and building stuff in C++, Java, and python. Every other language becomes simple after that, except rust.
@CodeByNZ Financial problem, at least i was able to afford data bundles. I worked my ass up now. Now Im able to deploy real world projects and learn freely at my own pace, with the course which i like from any learning resource online like udemy.
@CodeByNZ No doubt, YouTube is the biggest university for learning...
@CodeByNZ I think many people think that they learned it from tutorials because they remember them but in reality we learned most of it from documentation and stack overflow
@CodeByNZ Well. I'm obviously in those 30% that was coding when YouTube wasn't even a thing
@CodeByNZ Nothing wrong with it but to understand code we need to build, debug and deploy
@CodeByNZ Naw GPT-5 and Grok 4 got me
