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[Araph]

In my ongoing quest to stop being a scrub at everything, I made a YouTube channel called Git Gud. The channel hosts a bunch of programming tutorials, though it'll hopefully branch out into animation, art, music, and whatever else catches my interest in time.

The idea behind it was that I would learn stuff that I want to learn and then try to teach it to random people on the internet, which forces me to learn it well enough to coherently present an explanation on it instead of just kinda being okay at it and then moving on. I started with programming because game development in Unity is basically the only thing I feel I'm competent enough at to try teaching it.

Currently there are only two sets of videos (four, technically): intro to programming and networking in Unity. The first because it was a logical starting place, the second because it's something I learned how to do pretty well over the last year or so and it seems to be a troublesome topic. If there's a particular area you'd like video lessons on, let me know! Otherwise, I'll just keep making videos on random topics, which works too.

Unity Tutorials
Intro to programming
JavaScript
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

C#
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Networking
JavaScript
Part 1
Part 2

C#
Part 1
Part 2

Input
JavaScript and C#
Part 1

Animation
Cartoon Modelling
Part 1
Part 2

Miscellaneous
Warden Postmortem

Disclaimer: I cannot guarantee that I am not a shitty teacher. Sorry.

[Araph]

Sorry for the double-post, but I finished putting up all three rough drafts. If someone could take a glance at one of them to make sure I'm not mangling what I'm trying to say (I don't think I am, but it's hard to tell whether or not your explanation is effective if you're explaining something you already know to people who don't know it already), I'd really, really appreciate it.

[dorf]

I've watched a few mins of it (sorry, I'm not very interested in the topic).

You are speaking in a loud and clear manner. Which is great.
The audio quality is great and at a constant volume. Which is awesome.
These two things are very important (too me anyway)! 

I believe you are speaking fast enough. Since YT supports changing the speed of playback, this probably isn't an issue anyway.
However, I like faster explanations and I'm a generally knowledgeable technical person. Newbies might want you speaking a bit slower or with longer pauses.

What I like when viewing coding lessons is the zoom feature of the recording software. So, when you switch tabs/windows or start typing/selecting an option from a dropdown menu, the recording software adapts. It zooms into the options in the dropdown menu. When you start typing/coding, it zooms in as well.
I miss this here.

Your LP commentary seems fine. You talk enough. But having more reactions to the game could be beneficial/make you more interesting.
It depends whether you want to be a more serious & informative guy, or the entertaining guy.

I've never watched your videos, I don't know your YT channel, nor do you know you as a person. I believe your videos are slightly above-average or thereabouts. You still need to differentiate yourself from other LPers, but you could have a future in this.

[eerr]

As a newbie i prefer short videos so I can relisten a couple of times to what you said.
To make sure I get it and get it right.
To clarify I click on the time bar at the bottom and replay what I just listened to.

Your videos are not too long.

On vid #3 near the beginning there is this big jump into talking about scope.
I think a pause or deeper discription of the connection would keep me from loosing track of what you said right before it.
I mean you transition through three different topics in the space of a few seconds.
(topics- cleaning up- scope talk)
If you stumble with your words don't go faster, go slower. It's just too dense otherwise.(at your pace, ect)

It seems like you don't aim for a specific overal goal for the project, but are beelining for something very specific? I find that confusing.
The trail you make leads randomly into the woods. It's not bad but I don't know what to expect.

Take what I say with a grain of salt since I didn't actually program with your tutorial.
It doesn't yet offer me anything I don't already know.

[Araph]

Thanks for the feedback. I'll look into the zoom-in-on-target-area feature, and in future videos I might just edit that in afterwards if there's no alternative. I'll also work on being a little clearer and streamlining the topics so I don't arbitrarily jump around (like you said about scope, eerr).

I re-recorded the first series of videos (including a C# version of the same lessons) and recorded a second pair of pairs of videos on networking. I'm gonna change this thread name and shift the topic towards the channel I created for these tutorials (the LP channel was being used as a placeholder with unlisted videos, though I do appreciate the feedback on the LPs). A list of the current tutorials will be in the OP.

[Parsely]

JavaScript tutorials, just what I needed! I'll give these a look later.

[dorf]

I think (not know) that MacOS has a recording app which does this.
This  was a recurring theme when watching tuts of different Mac-based tutors.

[acetech09]

I use Screenflow, which has something like that.

[Araph]

I've been using Open Broadcaster for screencapturing, which has been working pretty well. I went back and edited in zooming with Premiere on the Intro to Programming videos, which have been reuploaded. I'll get the networking ones soon.

In addition, three new videos have been uploaded: one on Unity's Input Manager and two on modeling cartoony objects, all three of which have been added to the list in the OP.

Input
Part 1

Cartoon Modelling
Part 1
Part 2

[Araph]

I made a postmortem (sort of) of the game I worked on for the past year and a half (which was abandoned about a month or so ago), Warden. You can find the video here.

I've also decided I'm going to redo everything on the channel and try to make it look more professional (as well as better planned and executed). How well this will turn out is still up in the air, though.