Great work, but I have some feedback about the first video shown to everyone who visits the Computer Science page.
1) It jumps right into talking about syntax of programming instead of showing screen shots of what a person will be able to build after completing the lessons, the benefits of learning about Computer Science, some cool problems they will know the answer to, etc, like Udacity does.
2) It is spoken way too fast. It's going to turn off almost all non-native english speakers, as well as confuse many english speakers.
3) As if that's not bad enough, anyone who turns on closed captioning to get a transcript will be even more confused, as YouTube's transcription is both messy and flashes quickly. It's so useless, you should look into disabling the CC button for the videos while looking into other approaches in the mean time.
Example:
"according to a common just by out of the two facets to the front and we call this commenting out coat now the fun we skipped and sometimes this can get away with the land was for".
4) When re-recording it, I hope the speaker (who is female) says "men and women" rather than "dudes" when talking about programmers several times. Lots of women have contributed to software development. Otherwise, she made some great jokes!
Speaking slower would make the videos much longer, which would lose viewership. I'm in favour of having the presenter talk quickly, thus making the video shorter. The words are all spoken clearly; it's easy to pause and rewind if you need to.
It is spoken way too fast. It's going to turn off almost all non-native english speakers, as well as confuse many english speakers.
That's what the 'rewind' button is for. There is nothing more frustrating for those of us who do understand English than a slow speech track on a video.
Maybe a great solution would be to allow other users to record their own explanations for the lesson, so that the viewer could choose (and vote up) the ones they like better (by clarity, preferred accent, a different human language altogether, etc.)
1) It jumps right into talking about syntax of programming instead of showing screen shots of what a person will be able to build after completing the lessons, the benefits of learning about Computer Science, some cool problems they will know the answer to, etc, like Udacity does.
2) It is spoken way too fast. It's going to turn off almost all non-native english speakers, as well as confuse many english speakers.
3) As if that's not bad enough, anyone who turns on closed captioning to get a transcript will be even more confused, as YouTube's transcription is both messy and flashes quickly. It's so useless, you should look into disabling the CC button for the videos while looking into other approaches in the mean time.
Example:
"according to a common just by out of the two facets to the front and we call this commenting out coat now the fun we skipped and sometimes this can get away with the land was for".
4) When re-recording it, I hope the speaker (who is female) says "men and women" rather than "dudes" when talking about programmers several times. Lots of women have contributed to software development. Otherwise, she made some great jokes!
http://www.khanacademy.org/cs/1-welcome-to-codecanvas/882454...