In my experience, these YouTube channels buy that simplicity in exchange for leaving out many (important) details. Sure, college professors aren’t all didactic geniuses, but making things accurate usually requires to also make it more complicated.
Sometimes you need the simplified building blocks before you can grasp the full scope, though, and sometimes the professors don’t provide the building blocks but the YouTuber does. So the “core concept” videos end up helping you understand the professor’s details.
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The issue with subtitles on YouTube is that if the creator doesn’t upload the transcript, the captions are auto generated and they’re often wildly, laughably incorrect. Also if the speaker goes quickly it’s prone to even more errors as it tries to display it quickly. Sometimes that captions are the beginning half of one sentence and then the second half of an unrelated sentence.
It’s fine if you’re just screwing around watching funny videos but I wouldn’t want to base my understanding of a subject on them.
So, the professor gives you the knowledge to fully leverage it and take it in any direction.
Your friend gives you a single option that might help.
The Indian guy presents a straightforward path to a solution you might not want?
It’s not really good to compare the different situations of information sharing, because they have different goals. The professor isn’t needlessly complicating it, they are giving you fundamentals to build on.
I bet you’d have no clue what the Indian guy was talking about if you didn’t learn from your professor first. The video makes more sense because it helps clarify some of the ideas already presented by the professor.
It depends. Often the Indian guy (or equivalent) is giving specific knowledge on how to use a piece of software or library. That’s something the professor cannot and should not be focusing on. Too transitory.
We can think of it like cooking… If you understand emulsification using starch, it unlocks the ability to create many kind of sauces, but it won’t really help you with the specific recipe if Sauce Merchand du Vin. Fundamentals and tutorials are both good info, and the mistakes come from applying them to the wrong situations, or not having enough context to use either
I have a hard time understanding the indian-english accent… its quite annoying, because a lot of them make nice content.
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It is very annoying, some accents are hardly understandable.
However, I’ve found that for every 1 Indian I can’t understand, there are 5 that I can. (stats pulled out of my ass btw).
Please correct me if I am wrong but I think something like subtitles exist.
It takes a fair bit of work to produce quality subtitles. So in my experience most youtubers/videocasters rely on machine generated subtitles. The quality on these are sometimes great, often okay, but sometimes pretty bad. It doesn’t currently deal well with all accents, and can struggle on technical subjects that use unusual verbiage (like uncommon words, domain-specific terms, or pronounced acronyms). Still, even mediocre subtitles can help at times.
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Goa is the center of the universe.
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Hats off to the Indian community that thought me everything I know about Microsoft Excel 🫡
“Sup guys and gals”
