I don't think I've ever seen an instructional video about a programming topic and don't think I'd be so inclined to watch one before now. For those that don't know, an IDE(Integrated Development Environment) is a familiar acronym for developers; it's where they do all there work. They are typically massive software packages that seem to do a million different things. Most of these IDE's have serious usability issues with a lot of complexity. Fortunately, most of these systems are very customizable. And most developers spend a great deal of time customizing thier environment to something most usable for them. The more advanced IDEs even provided ways for developers to enhance the features of the software with plug-in support. As you might imagine developing these plugins can be difficult as programmers would have to learn about the behind-the-scenes inner-workings of the IDE. One IDE, IntelliJ, claims that developing plugins is actually very easy and
provided a video to show it. Now I wouldn't exactly call this process easy, but the video demystified a lot the detail work that is sometimes hard to find. Sometimes just getting started is difficult thing.. or maybe just integrating a finished plugin... in any case, all these details are right in the video! They also have a lot of very readable traditional documentation on this topic. No wonder they have over 300 plugins and new ones every week.
I don't think I've ever seen an instructional video about a programming topic and don't think I'd be so inclined to watch one before now. For those that don't know, an IDE(Integrated Development Environment) is a familiar acronym for developers; it's where they do all there work. They are typically massive software packages that seem to do a million different things. Most of these IDE's have serious usability issues with a lot of complexity. Fortunately, most of these systems are very customizable. And most developers spend a great deal of time customizing thier environment to something most usable for them. The more advanced IDEs even provided ways for developers to enhance the features of the software with plug-in support. As you might imagine developing these plugins can be difficult as programmers would have to learn about the behind-the-scenes inner-workings of the IDE. One IDE, IntelliJ, claims that developing plugins is actually very easy and provided a video to show it. Now I wouldn't exactly call this process easy, but the video demystified a lot the detail work that is sometimes hard to find. Sometimes just getting started is difficult thing.. or maybe just integrating a finished plugin... in any case, all these details are right in the video! They also have a lot of very readable traditional documentation on this topic. No wonder they have over 300 plugins and new ones every week.
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Actually, I have seen many videos tutorials to help first time users. They have been great! There are some tutorials on how to code using action script and I must say that I learn a lot more from the videos than I do from just reading the text. I was skeptical at first but truly enjoy them now. I like how you can follow along and see results...something you can't do when just reading through a book.
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