Thread: Why on earth do people want video tutorials??
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gerbick
2013-12-10 , 22:12
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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
But what I am critisizing here is that people ask video tutorials for basically stuff that you type on terminal, for gossakes!

Would it not make sense to have the tutorial in written format, that you can copy/paste commands off than trying to decipher the stuff somebody is typing on a video of a terminal screen...

Maybe it is true, I am just a fool that I cannot see the point of it
I said it's foolish, not that you're a fool. Perhaps folly is the best word for here.

I get the sentiment. I just had to make a terminal focused video tutorial on installing NodeJS modules via NPM. It's all text commands, no UI and yet, here we are.

Again, folks learn in different ways. As a touch typist, copy/paste doesn't really factor in for me - I can see it and type it flawlessly. But asking me to do a video tutorial of it, I questioned it.

But their answer made sense to me - "Some people need to see it." and visual learners + terminal is an odd mixture.

tl;dr

Different strokes for different folks.