I admire people of 90's and 80's how did they developed applications without stackoverflow and documentation page of specific language. Oh man we are so lucky to have all this.

The amount of free content these days, there is no excuse.

Awesome book. I got it. I use both video and books. The hidden treasures are in printed books.

All of it is awesome. The real factor is the creator of whatever content you are trying to learn from. One book on the same material as another book can be vastly superior. Same with video programs. Spend time with all of them using both active and passive learning. Basically, surround yourself with the materials. Work with it directly (books or videos), play around with your own web dev or personal coding challenges, use the Inspect and View Page Source features of browsers to look at other people's web page code, watch lectures about computer science and coding and development, etc. So much good content out there. Currently working through Stef's educational materials along with other materials and, while there is overlap, just the different presentation styles with the slight differences in the way that topics are covered or how each content creator uses the tools differently is great to see.

You convinced me to start the move into programming and web development. I'll give myself until 2021 to master it. I have a good foundation in the technology, networking and cyber security. I'm a truck driver and really want to change and save my self from this miserable lifestyle. My family is suffering and I sure do to every day.

That 'audio only' lesson sample gave me a bout of anxiety and delusions of abandonment. I cannot learn without printed books. I need to physically highlight and write on the page. E-books just won't do for my methods. What is life without printed books? Chaos.

@Stefan Mischook you have been an inspiration to many freelancers like me and made it easy for many beginners to delve into advanced stuff. Kudos. ✌️🙂

Books are essential to learning any subject. Videos are valuable compliment to actually see how things come together, but the basis of learning is always in books.

Yep! very much enjoyed taking both your online and book html courses - taking both in parallel was a huge advantage. The quizzes were a great way to bolster the info learned. Also avoiding the 'copy and paste' temptation is very important - typing out all the code by hand really makes it 'stick'.

There are several generations of programmers: * Self taught several decades ago from manuals that came with computers. There were very few other ways back then. I learned from a VIC 20 manual in the 1980's. * Self taught from published programming books in the 1990's to early 2000's. I learned from these too, after the VIC 20. * School and university taught in the last couple of decades. * Self taught on the Internet, google, blogs and vlogs, etc. I use these nowadays of course. There is so much information available.

Good content as always , Keep it up , Master 🔥

Thanks that is just what I needed to hear !!!

Every second is worth watching!

im glad i found you, im just beginning to code but its great to know i have a relioable teacher for code on youtube

Yep, use both ! Books cover more stuff than video does, and it is a good complement to videos also.

This is an awesome video Steph

Just got my book yesterday👌🏼 I consider you my favorite general coding education channel, just wanted you to know that.

When I think of developing/coding/programming I always think of making desktop apps first. I know programming has many branches, but I think more videos on the internet should be more explicit about the type of programming they talk about. A lot of programming videos are just about web development, which I know you can apply to other types of programming, but they could be more specific. For example, usually when you search for "how to learn math?" you get a bunch of results about the main ideas in math not just about geometry or diffy equations or some other specific topic. But I guess if you search for "video games" and you only get fortnite stuff you are just getting the most popular results back, like web development is the most popular aspect of programming now. I started my coding adventure last year. I had my ideas about what programming was, like I said before. But all over the internet were programming videos/blogs/tutorials about ......... web development. I spent a lot of time learning the basics of web development (I still do), but later found out about machine learning and data science and was immediately hooked on it since I love math and wanted to use it in programming (web development has very little math). I know my correlation of programming and desktop apps is biased in itself, but I think people giving advice about programming could be more specific about the field they cater to or more general. PS. I am not ranting on you Stefan, just wanted to see if other people felt like me.

Thanks for sharing your valuable experience!

thank you for this video, really helpful!!

Great content! Thank you!

I always start with examples and docs. I'll find some videos or look up books when I can't figure it out.

Hi Stefan thanks for the really useful coding information. Going to purchase your book! Regarding Flutter 1.2 (few vlogs back) now I know it's a framework instead of a pure programming language. Thanks again for your understanding. Happy Saint Patrick's Day! Vest wishes from Ireland.

About that tactile thing and understanding... Funny thing, in Finnish hand is "käsi" and to understand or to comprehend is "käsittää" ( = to hand literally). There really is a point to writing a lot of code already as a novice and there is nothing wrong with doing some of it by hand, you learn syntax and can make outlines to get a better grasp of bigger constructs 🙂 Thanks for the great content!

Was looking for a video like this

I learned Laravel in days using Laracasts and the documention. I learned CodeIgniter in weeks relying on the documentation alone two years prior. You could argue that Laravel was at an advantage because at that point because I knew the fundamentals of frameworks, fair point. Bash took me a few months using books alone. Python took me few weeks using video. JS has been steady employing both video and books. I'm three days in and have the basics down. I prefer reading but even I have to admit that there has to be a balance between books and videos. I employ both whenever possible but my preference will always be books first.

This a super good video Stef, and that Refactoring book is gotta be good because it is still pricey... Chiquito...

@Stefan Mischook I really love your channel sir, thanks for any content. You are a goat for me.

Memory palaces and making your own highly organized notes and snippets.

Stefan I would like to know your thoughts on quantum computing and the latest advancements in that arena. Also, if you could explain how beginners to code can learn Qiskit as fast as possible. Thank you!

OMG Stefan, this is what I came to KZfaq now to watch some videos about. I was kinda trying to make a decision whether to buy "You Don't Know JS book series" or not, because after my first term as CS student @ Uopepole studying Python I found it very useful to do this combination between reading books and watching videos and yeah you just made me feel confident now to apply this method during my learning journey... thank you.

For some strange reason, this man seems like the rock to me. Anyway, you are great Stefan!

Hello Stefan Mischook, Would you recommend a book(s) or "great course" to learn JAVA, as a first back end language ? Thanks

Great one.

Hi, very motivated video for me, I try as I can avoid to buy a book because I dont have a space for it, but im very oldfashioned so I always need at least one book to read when Im out of computer, thank you :D

Pls answer me Which two books should I buy as I m learning to code from scratch I want to learn web developement

Hi Stefan, thank you again for a great inspirational video. I am currently busy with you're course. I am unfortunately in a country where data is extremely expensive and just as unreliable. I am not able to install WIFI because at home it is just not available. I have it at work, but your courses can only be viewed online. Is there a function to download one or two videos to do at home that I am not aware of? As you said daily study is the best, but I can only study on days that I am connected, but this can be days apart. It throws off track every time. Any suggestions please? Thank you for all your effort!!

When Will the New courses be available?

Hi Stefan, is there a book you recommend for React?

Hey Steffen since this is touched on book and or video. How do we learn the different type of deeper code that is not mention in book? There are so many ways to code something in different ways.

Kindle vs Print? So you can code by side with the book?

I saw you in a video talking from your car in a snowy day and I wondering who is this guy. Nice to find him!

please reply - i wanna start coding and theres no coding booksin my country sadly even though if it is i know nothing imp is there so if i wnat to buy the coding book that u are showing right now how do i buy it???

Planning on buying a book about programming

Could you recommend any Reactjs books?

I am near the end of the ZTM Python course on Udemy. I feel that I have forgotten about 70% of the course content so far, even though it's a good course. Last night I read the first chapter of Automate the Boring Stuff with Python and felt that a lot more sunk in with a reading/doing combo. With the videos sometimes I feel like I just space out after a while. However, it could be because I was reviewing things that I've already covered on the ZTM course and the reading helped to reinforce it.

It is best to use both, also interactive courses.

Which latest books you will recommend me?? PHP & LARAVEL

Books, online written courses/tutorials, and documentations, are the only medium I use to learn. I just can't retain information from videos, because I constantly find myself pausing, rewinding, skimming, etc. Even with this video I find myself doing that xD.

BOTH, plus other people's commented code.

Can you suggest best book for learn react.js

Nice topic . I was wondering about your opinions about "Polyfill and Transpiler", do we still need them in 2019 for compiling our javascript ?

This shows that learning from books makes you write your own books and teach others.

When your going through these do you just sit down and read them cover to cover and then go back and use what you've learnt or do you code alongside reading

How do I get that book.

Stefan could you make a video (one or more) about multithreading programming in C#?

Did I miss it? Nobody has 'yet' commented on the fact that Stef had a -> ... Ruby ...

I like books with programming and I do also watch videos.

Nice

Combine the two.

I like a combination of the two....the books explain to you the what and the why....videos show you HOW to do it...but if you've read the what and the why....when you see how...it all of a sudden clicks!

How about on a Kindle?

JUST A QUESTION: would you start develop web applications with PHP/Laravel or with GO ?

I send this video to all the activist also known as msm journalist. #learntocode

can you share to us you're opinion about linux OS for development,?

i saw people said "you can't learn coding from a book" what is that ?

Great video! Tbh, the best way to learn to code is to GET THE F**K ON WITH IT AND STOP WAISTING YOUR TIME IN THE YT COMENTS!!! Wait what am I doing here? 🤪

Hey Stef how about a video on design patterns? Frequently used ones, ones every good programmer should now, etc.

I really love books but I almost never find the headspeace where I can really sit down with them and learn to code from them. When I just have to read - that's totally fine ... everything else, meh. :/ Makes me sad a bit but I learn really good from videos & tutorials like the ones on Udacity :)

i am a beginner in c++ language. Can anyone suggest me a book for it..

For languages book & for frameworks video :)

your website has no security or ssl to securely be able to purchase your course

Stefan owns a book about Ruby?! 😮😮😮😮

One of my biggest -excuses - ooops, i mean, barriers....to learning to code is i find it difficult to follow something from start to finish without having a "big picture" in my head. I'd love to see a tutorial showing a completed website or app to see all the functionality/see what everything does...then go thru' the design process...then finally, the code. Honestly, if i seen a decent run thru' of the first two parts i could probably work out the code for myself

Is the SQL book still worth buying nowadays or just not?

Is it just me or is Python Crash Course one of those books that closes too easily? Like, I have to force it to stay open.

I want that book😬

Depends on the person's knowledge, If you are starting out then get a good book on a language that provides static typing with fairly strict typing rules. -> This first step will get the future programmer used to thinking sanely about type soundness. A experienced programmer can choose any method to increase their knowledge. Tips on becoming a bad programmer... 1. Pick the du jour dynamic language and start writing code. 2. Watch KZfaq videos on said dynamic language. 3. Wonder why people 'with actual programming knowledge' look at your code and laugh. BTW, I'm not saying people who use dynamic languages are bad programmers. I'm saying dynamic languages are wayyyyyy too accommodating and it takes a seasoned programmer to keep dynamic code sane.

The book I only interest is that about html5 with green cover. So, Could you tell me the title plz?

Books

Someone told me there is no money now a days in writing programming books these days, because these become obsolete very soon these days. It is true?

I'm not gonna spend 18 min watching this video. The answer is pretty clear - videos and frameworks websites. Books are things of the past. Of course, Stefan has a conflict of interests here as he has books to promote:) Pretty much all the books will end up gathering dust on the shelf eventually.

The ‘Trump would be so jealous’ comment was absolutely priceless. Newfound respect for you and your program. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Great content and commentaries, too, as always.

Sir,Can someone like you that improved yourself this much pass a google,uber,apple... 's interviews and get a job easily?

Book

#learntocode ? OOf thats a hella controversial statement.

1:09

5:29 ASMR

Stefan “read my book, and watch my course” Mischook ;)

0:30 Did he just say he wrote that book in 215?

Hi, if you don't need this book, can you please sell to me??? I checked the price it was very high for new books. If you have any other programming related books, which you don't need it now, please tell me I will buy it from you.....

I really don't like coding videos for some reason

Yuge hands alert

Udemy

books are great... but not for coding. things change so quickly and everything goes out of date

Hahha, university not even mentioned.

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What does Trump have to do in all of this?