> a much better way to teach kids (and many adults) programming is by creating > videos
Funny to hear that from someone who wrote a Nim book. Wisdom of the ages or more a result of dissapointment by tiny selling rates :-) ? Personally I can not imagine something more boring and time wasting than videos. Most videos are extremly bad, generally I understand what I already know, but have trouble learning new things. And what I learn from a video, I could have learned in a fraction of the time from a written tutorial or book. I think for me one problem is that I have some problems to understand the English speech at all, but the other point is that I can read very quickly over text that I already know, but think long about new stuff. Well there exists good videos indeed. Some years ago we had in 3Sat TV a series of Prof Manfred Spitzer about our brain, was really good. And in ARD-Alpha there was Alpha-Centauri of Prof. Harald Lesch from university of Munich, about our cosmos. Was not bad. But youtube videos? Pure garbage, they can not even explain simple car repair instructions.
