Sunday, October 08, 2006

Useful learning resources

I'm a big fan of video training, screencasting, and basically any type of online media that attempts to teach you something. I feel like there is so much more to be learned by watching someone work and hearing what they have to say about it than trying to read a prepared tutorial.

Recently I've discovered that Google has posted a ton of technical talks on video.google.com. There are talks there ranging from a dry run of Guido's Python 3000 OSCON talk, a demo of all of the interesting thing's Apple's Automator tool can do, to discussions about nanotechnology. Not all of the talks are great, but a lot of them are!

I strongly encourage you to have a look, you'll no doubt find something there that interests you. Try searching for "Tech Talk" or "engEDU".

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