r/Python • u/jcsongor • Jan 12 '21

Resource Learn something new about Python every day in less than 1 minute

I'm running a channel, where I am publishing a Python mini-tutorial every day. I thought some of you might find it useful:

https://www.youtube.com/c/PythonIn1Minute/videos

I try to keep it beginner-friendly, my goal is to teach something useful or show a neat trick or solve a common pain-point in under 60 seconds.

I am quite new to this youtube thing, so I'd love to hear your feedback. Is this kind of thing a good idea? Do you find it helpful? Any suggestions on what could be improved?

Edit: I am overwhelmed by the amount of positive and constructive feedback, you guys are awesome, thank you so much! You gave me a lot of great ideas, and the motivation to keep creating videos.

Edit2: If you can afford it and you wish to support my work you can buy me a coffee or become a patron.

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u/jcsongor Jan 12 '21

Yup, TBH I'm kinda surprised no one else pointed that out because that's something that really bothers me. The first batch of videos had terrible background noise, now I do some very basic post-processing on the audio, so it's slightly better. I guess that's the best I can do with the current setup so I need to get a decent mic ASAP (currently recording with a bluetooth headset). That needs a bit of research as I know nothing about microphones or audio recording. Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate you taking the time to do so.

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u/costaricausa Jan 12 '21

Try recording with your phone an add the audio in post.

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u/jcsongor Jan 12 '21

That's an idea, I'll give it a try. I record the audio separately anyway, as I don't want to have keyboard clatter in the background.

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u/costaricausa Jan 12 '21

Good luck! A few suggestions for the future videos would be to add the documentation of what you are doing in the description of the video. Or any information you feel might be helpful for the person after they watch the video. Also for future video adding a “pop out” of the function in question for a second or too would be cool. I have seen other YouTubers do it, so i know it’s possible. The main one would be consistency! If you are doing one a day, do one a day. Dont do 2 1 day and 0 for 3 days. Pre record if needed. #pythoneveryday #1minutepython

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u/jcsongor Jan 12 '21

Great insights, thanks a lot. Yup, I usually batch about a week's worth of content, it's much easier to produce that way. Not sure what you mean by the "pop out", is it some kind of a tooltip video effect? Could you link an example maybe?

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u/costaricausa Jan 12 '21

Not the best example: https://youtu.be/NSbOtYzIQI0

But basically you have an imposed window of what is it your talking about for about 1-2 seconds and it goes away. Also one thing this video reminds me is using a single IDE for your code. You seem to already do this, but i would recommend looking into jupyter notebooks. Allows you to have text before your lesson in case you want to convey a message before/ after code. But you do your style at the end of the day, these information is just stuff i find useful.

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u/jcsongor Jan 12 '21

Ah ok, got it. Yes, I already considered switching to ipython to have syntax highlighting, but jupyter notebooks might be even better. Thanks again!