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Show HN: I recreated Coursera with 150 free YouTube tutorials

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OK, so it's not quite a complete learning platform. I've only covered the most popular resume keywords here.

The idea was to find the best YouTube crash courses for every "hot" tech skill. "Best" is subjective, so I had to rely on video popularity, viewer feedback, and my own watch experience to gauge how effective each one is.

This is for folks that:

- Want to quickly refresh their skills

- Want a preview of a technical topic before investing lots of time and money into it

- Have an interview in 30 minutes and desperately need something, anything

The goal is to get people hooked on a subject - give them a basic overview of what's going on, then lure them in with increasingly more complicated tutorials.

All possible thanks to the YouTube instructors who are kind enough to put up amazing content for free.

Thanks, this looks like a really useful portal site for getting started in almost any tech-related subject. Bookmarked!

Thanks! I will be adding more skills / career tracks depending on feedback :)

Quite shallow selection. How were the videos selected vs. other videos on the same topic (and say similar length)? What are the credentials of the curator to convince curator’s choices are indeed worthwhile?

Excellent points. A judgment call has to be made if there are two competing videos for the same topic, and around the same length. This sometimes happens, for very popular topics (e.g. HTML basics).

The plan is to have a feedback mechanism that will let the viewers decide if a video should stay or go.

Where possible, attention is called to the credentials of the instructor (much more important and impressive than the credentials of the curator). The first few minutes of the videos are usually enough to convince a viewer that it's a serious video intended to convey information.

Good job, I would suggest to you add this one, it's for TF and it is pretty good.

https://youtu.be/7xngnjfIlK4

Thank you! This one looks really well done. (For anyone wondering, TF = Terraform)

Looks great - I have a friend who's just getting into development and sent him this. Thanks.

The part of Coursera I find valuable are tests/exams/assignments that verify what you have learnt or at least require some activity over passive watching of video.

what is the difference from just searching youtube for same?

Great question. The optimal way to learn one of these skills through youtube:

- Run the search

- Click through the top 5-10 results

- Investigate which courses are a) complete (i.e. not just pitches for an upsell), b) up to date, c) presented clearly and succinctly

I did all that already for each topic.

Another big question people have: "Where do I begin learning X?" They inevitably get linked to a giant roadmap diagram. On this site, the videos are arranged in a particular order - starting from the very beginning.

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