May-08-2017, 01:41 PM
Ok, so...
video is rarely indexed, so you can't skip to relevant parts easily (text has headers... or an index).
video can mostly (see Ted talks) be consumed only at a single speed. With text, you can read faster/slower, so a 1 hour long video would take less than 5 minutes to read through if it was text.
video can't be run, and code can't be copy/pasted. If all you're doing is watching, instead of following along and trying different things along the way... are you really learning at all?
video is worthless if the speaker is hard to understand (dialect, wrong language, too far from microphone, etc). Text can at least be run through Google Translate, or have volunteers translate it.
There's more, but that's off the top of my head.
video is rarely indexed, so you can't skip to relevant parts easily (text has headers... or an index).
video can mostly (see Ted talks) be consumed only at a single speed. With text, you can read faster/slower, so a 1 hour long video would take less than 5 minutes to read through if it was text.
video can't be run, and code can't be copy/pasted. If all you're doing is watching, instead of following along and trying different things along the way... are you really learning at all?
video is worthless if the speaker is hard to understand (dialect, wrong language, too far from microphone, etc). Text can at least be run through Google Translate, or have volunteers translate it.
There's more, but that's off the top of my head.