There are a few things worth discussing about these notes. Subtle, but now impls can change and tests still do what they should do. First, let’s look at notes from my testing course. Now that we know why I have notes, let’s look at what they look like. While many of my course videos do NOT have a written component, I like writing my notes this way with the hope that one day I’ll be able to turn them all into written versions of the video to make the content more accessible. In reality, it is just a short writeup of the screencast, but I like the name. Railscasts has this really awesome tab in every screencast called “ASCIIcast”. Notes will (hopefully) become ascii-casts By using notes, I’m able to make sure every concept I want to teach is covered and I’m able to plan out the best place to introduce each subject before getting in front of the camera.ģ. When I first started creating courses, I would find myself redoing videos with issues and while recording them I would think, “Oh man, I should talk about X here…” only to later realize I talked about X in the very next video and just forgot that it was already there. It doesn’t really matter what causes the distraction, the important thing is that I’m able to quickly get back on track. I might encounter a bug, tell a story, or my dog might bark (□ woof!). When recording, it is really easy to get distracted. I’m sure every content creator has their own process, but for me I like to write markdown files that I can basically follow along with when recording a course. The purpose of my notesįirst, let’s talk about what my course notes are and how I use them. What do my notes look like, how do I use them, why does it take me so long to complete a project when using it to create course notes, etc. Let’s just chalk that all up to “life happens.” What I would like to focus on in this post is course notes. There are a million little reasons why, but I’m not going to get into them. I haven’t posted a progress update in far too long.
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