CodeWithHarry 'Python Tutorial For Beginners' Review from a Beginner

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I have tried to watch this entire video thrice in the past week, and I am pursuing my MBA right now. I got 99th percentile on the CAT exam. All that to say, I am not just a random person who is losing motivation. I want to highlight a genuine flaw and give genuine, constructive feedback. His style of teaching is very theoretical.

Coding is something that I believe one learns by doing it hands-on. He teaches a lot of concepts. He teaches theory and definitions and how things work. He says a lot of things but doesn't allow the student to do them on their own. I understand that it might be implicit in his video that other than the exercises that he gives, which come infrequently, the student is also supposed to try them on their own or just explore in VS Code on their own. But it's not something that a student would usually take up. If, say, 100 students are watching his video, I'd say only 20 to 30 of them would pause the video at the 15, 30, 45 or 60-minute minute-mark and do everything that he's taught up till then on their own. They would mostly be watching it rather than practicing it.

On the other hand, there is this website called [futurecoder.io](about:blank). I'm not promoting anything. I'm just telling you about an example. I've been learning coding, especially Python, from there. It's an interactive website that teaches you how to code Python by giving you short snippets of theory and then making you practice on your own. It's more practice and interaction-focused than theory-focused. I like websites like this one or Sololearn, Codecademy etc. It makes the student type their code within 30 seconds of the course starting. That is a huge deal that is missing from his course.

I learned more in the first half an hour of going through that website than I learned from watching two hours of his course. And that says a lot about his pedagogy. I'm not saying he's a bad teacher. He's charismatic and seems approachable, someone one wants to listen to. But at the same time, I don't feel that it's an effective way of teaching a subject which is meant to be hands-on, which is meant to be learned by doing it.