Scott on Writing

# re: The Latest Thing from Microsoft - Video Training 3/1/2006 8:09 AM LP

I agree. And according to me this is plain laziness - the webcasts provide good starting point but are never good enough for a deep dive. And that's where an article scores heavily - it is always more in depth.

I think even the best webcast would not make a decent article on MSDN.

# re: The Latest Thing from Microsoft - Video Training 3/1/2006 8:09 AM Hanan

Scott,
I can understand why it's not an effective way of learning for experienced developers as you. But for beginners like me, step by step videos are perfect. It's a true timesaver when MSDN seems confusing, and it does, to rookies.

# re: The Latest Thing from Microsoft - Video Training 3/1/2006 9:28 AM Darren Kopp

The benefit of webcasts, at least the live ones, is you can ask questions as you are going or at the end, which you can't do in articles (as easily). Granted, with blogs and comments and such you can do so, but it doesn't happen in real time and may take a longer time.

I agree that with text you can have more in-depth information or more extensive information within a single article. From what I have seen, the videos tend to be more focussed on a single area. However, I feel that 2 or 3 videos are as extensive as an article or two. It all depends on who is presenting.

The ironic part about watching webcasts for me is that I never actually WATCH them, I leave them minimized and just listen to what they are talking about while I go about my work. If I don't know what they are referring to, I will just toggle the video and look at where they are in the code, but that's about it. I don't really need the information, but I like to see how other people implement something, as compared to how I would, then I try to figure out which one is better, or incorporate the two.

-Darren

# re: The Latest Thing from Microsoft - Video Training 3/9/2006 9:34 AM Fabio Galante Mans

I don´t speak English and read little, then videos are good to learn. I´m Brazilian.

# re: The Latest Thing from Microsoft - Video Training 4/30/2006 8:57 PM Tj

I think videos are great way to start on a particular topic.Suppose I am working on ASP.NET project and all of sudden a junior program(from another team) comes and ask about HowTo: in remoting all i can do watch a quick webcast just go thru the webcase->File marker and jump to the desktop sharing and see what he is doing and then suddenly i become an expert on that topic,and then i can setup the whole project and code and show it the junior guy how its need to be done.

Moreover it also gives be to get the best of every world and how things are so easy to do in something else rather then your coding language.

Same time I am still fan of technical articles and blogs.And i love your article Scott.I wish one day you should do a webcast on "ASP.NET application End to End in an Enterprise" and should be like a Iron developer contest sort .

:)