That brings up a second question: who watches coding tutorials? I'd imagine it's probably people with less than a few weeks of coding experience, because it's horribly inefficient compared to text tutorials.
I find them valuable if you don't need to write code to experiment with but can just watch the video at the regular speed and get the concepts that you can then use in your project. Also allows for watching while you do other stuff on the side.
SymfonyCasts is an example where I like the videos. They aren't the typical YouTube style of "let me talk about random things for 5 minutes so I get this video over the 10 minute mark", they get pretty much straight to the point. They have a text version below, which also makes search easy, And you can click on any sentence in the text version to jump to the right position in the video. I found them very helpful when I started with Symfony, but haven't really watched any once I had a solid enough understanding to get work done and incrementally learn more things as I need them.
I've occasionally found them helpful for less mainstream stuff where there's a lack of quality resources.
The 'failure mode' for a lazy text tutorial is that important details are left out. The 'failure mode' for a lazy video tutorial is that they didn't edit anything out.
One of my few very good teachers in school highlighted that people learn differently - some people by reading, others doing and others again watching. I'm most definitely somewhere between the last two. I find that for me watching high quality tutorials (pluralsight, CBTNuggets, etc) at 1.5-2x speed is a very good way to get introduced into a language particularly when I seed a solid foundational understanding rather than knowing exactly how to add an additional command into npm run, etc.
> I'd imagine it's probably people with less than a few weeks of coding experience
In the end everybody eventually needs to learn from written content; not only for the viewers efficiency, but also because it's more efficient for content creators to produce written content over video content.
You can even guess your 'reckon' from looking at the kind of video content that is out there - again, this seems mostly to be a consequence of creator efficiency.
With that said, who cares?
Hell, I sometimes hit up streams - for instance, Antirez has been streaming himself building out parts of Redis 6, because it may introduce me to new techniques or minutae I didn't know. It's way, way, way more chill than reading source code, and it's a lot better than the blog post on it he probably won't write.
