How do I use YouTube for learning a new programming language?

YouTube has tons of tutorials! If you can use this, you can make a game-changer. A few days ago, I was learning golang, and I learned it on youtube. Here is the roadmap of how I learned it and used my youtube!

First, I tried to get a crash course on youtube about golang.

I found these, but they were pretty big. So I went with a shorter one to understand stuff in less time; because I’ve already experience with static & dynamic typed language like - c, c++, javascript, python!

So I searched “golang in 5 mins” and this led me to the fantastic tutorial.

Then I read some of my company codebase, which is already written, and went through them. I understood many parts of it, and golang was not looking like a horror film!

But later, I wanted to go a little deeper, and so I searched the playlist

Then I found these two fantastic series where I learned much golang, and I started writing code.

But this is not good enough, honestly, because up until now, they were teaching me about the language details, not building anything specific. So I searched “golang project with microservice”

Then it leads me to write microservices. Now I’ve several micro-services in production! The company is happy with my performance too!

Another quick tip, most of the time, YouTube shows old content (they sorted based on many stuff). So if you are learning React, you can find much content using class. But mostly use hooks, so it’s best to find projects within a few months!

You can search like this “React projects” and the filter will be this month or this year!

This will lead you to the newer tutorial, which will be using hooks! You can also specify the hook part, but you don’t know. Try to follow some tutorials made this year instead of trying something 2/3 years old.

Because tech moves so fast!

If this helps you, feel free to check my discord where we help each other for learning programming and ask questions! discord link →?https://discord.gg/brC3Zytm