Perception of the material - is there a right and wrong way?

Question

Programming

When reading a book, I lose all interest after 20 minutes of reading a book, but when watching a video material, there is a desire to watch it further and further + the material is absorbed better.
Is there a way to study (through video lectures) programming (or rather your first language)?
In the future I plan to buy a paper version of Knuth and some books on programming (they go better than from a monitor), but for now I would like to learn a language with the help of a video. Is this possible, or after the video will I remain a nobody and will not be able to write anything more than a hundred lines of code?

Answer 1

This is fine. Just reading a book on programming is 99% useless. Books are needed in two situations:
1. Education. You open the book, read the first chapter, open the editor, and work through everything you read in the code, trying to understand everything. The next day, you open the book again, read the next chapter, and try again to code on the topic, and so on. It is very good if the book contains some more or less real examples and tasks that are given for self-study at the end of each chapter. Those. There is absolutely no need to try to read everything at once.
2. Real work. You are writing some kind of program and then bam, for example, you need to write a regular expression. That's the reason to look into the book and carefully study the regular expressions there. And so every time, you stumble upon a difficult moment - you open the book.
So do not worry, study as you like. The main thing is more practice, as much as possible. Any knowledge should be immediately fixed. Any new concept and you have to write a couple of real hard problems with it to learn. Watching videos and reading books just like that is useless.

Answer 2

For those who are better at assimilating the video format, there are plenty of online learning resources. For example, a good list is here: habrahabr.ru/post/156241

Answer 3

The most important thing in learning is interest, when reading books you only learn the material, 1 + 2 = 3, nothing interesting, you need to consolidate everything in practice, read a paragraph, a chapter, and translate everything that you read into a program, thereby you not only consolidate skills, but also pushing yourself to further learning. Good luck!

Answer 4

The question immediately arises - do you need it, if you are not interested? And listening to Indians as they explain their crooked creations in crooked English is the last thing.
The only thing I can advise is to go to a big good bookstore and try to find an interesting book on programming there. If nothing interests you - throw this whim. To do this, you need to be crazy about it. Otherwise torture.