First video in a coding playlist: 300k views. Second video: 200k views. Remaining videos in series passing the series midpoint: 2-3k views each. Why?
2 27 Dec 2016 19:17 by u/Omnipresent
Every series dedicated to programming always has a ridiculously high dropout rate when comparing the initial views to the views given to the later videos.
What I interpret from this is that many people seem to want to learn how to code, but so few actually appear to accomplish said goal. Is programming supposed to be hard, because I honestly don't get it.
5 comments
5 u/effusive_ermine 27 Dec 2016 20:04
Some folks are better suited to other pursuits. Anyone can appreciate music, but not everyone wants to compose music.
4 u/lmkevin 27 Dec 2016 21:54
Nothing surprising here. It's just like anything else in life, you start walking up the hill of knowledge but turn downhill because you saw something more interesting on your way up.
3 u/GIF-lLL-S0NG 27 Dec 2016 19:25
Which particular channel does this? For one, They have months to work on the first couple videos and then they make the next ones with much less scripting and they are just crap?
3 u/hereonachair 27 Dec 2016 19:57
Because in today's world people (including myself) find it difficult to formulate a plan of action and committing to it unless the plan brings positive results in two steps or less.
On top of that, programming is something that's advertised to be super big and important these days, but only a small percentage of the population has the mental disposition to be truly engaged and immersed in its details.
1 u/roznak 30 Dec 2016 03:25
Programming IS hard. Programming that is user friendly and actually is useful and you finalize it to the end with no bugs.