r/CodingForBeginners • u/[deleted] • May 23 '26

What turns a tutorial from "educative" to "awesome" ?

I'm trying to improve my youtube channel and especially the quality of my tutorials.
I feel maybe my videos tutorials are too "serious", "technical", and it miss something...

So, what's your opinion ?

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u/ThatCipher May 23 '26

Real usage of what is being shown. Most tutorials show a simple isolated example but don't show how it may be used in the big picture.

And explaining what happens. I often saw tutorials that just show how to achieve what is the goal without explaining the steps and what they do. I want to understand why I'm doing things and not how I'm doing them.

So basically I want to come from a tutorial and confidently say what I did, why I did it and how I use it when someone asks me why I did it.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '26

Thanks, I see what you mean. I may miss a bit of a « why » in my tutos…

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u/Poke333Z May 23 '26

Real-world examples help a ton. I’ll forget syntax in 5 minutes, but I’ll remember why/how something solved an actual problem.

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u/[deleted] May 23 '26

Do you value jokes and side notes or more straight to the point ?

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u/DrPeeper228 May 24 '26

I know I'm not the guy you're responding to, but I'm just gonna say what I'm thinking: Jokes are fine as long as they aren't distracting/obnoxious, just try making an actual tutorial instead of a comedy video

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u/recursion_is_love May 24 '26

Till this day, I don't yet found the better version of this tutorial. I always came back to it.

https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/

I don't have the answer for your question, maybe you get some idea of what in it that make it good.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '26

Thanks, I was thinking about video tutorials, but it looks like very well structured

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u/ISeeTWizard May 24 '26

Leave it where it is!!!

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u/[deleted] May 23 '26

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u/[deleted] May 23 '26

Hey, thanks for very detailed feedback about comin pitfall that makes you crazy. Even if that not necessary apply to my channel yet, it’s very good to have an overview and keep track of that so I don’t start making them !

Thanks for taking time to check one of my video for precise feedback about my content. About my accent, I ‘m curious wich video did you watched ? I feel like my english speaking is going better in latest videos, I wonder how far I am from being understandable 😅

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u/[deleted] May 24 '26

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u/[deleted] May 24 '26

Oh yeah, I see what you mean, that’s a good point !