WEBVTT 00:00.450 --> 00:00.820 All right. 00:00.840 --> 00:05.290 So I have some good news which is that in the next video we're going to start typing code. 00:05.330 --> 00:06.770 I'm going to start with sequel. 00:06.900 --> 00:10.450 The bad news is that we still have to make it through this video. 00:10.530 --> 00:11.760 Hopefully it's not too painful. 00:11.760 --> 00:16.020 Essentially what I want to talk about is different types of content in the course in how the course 00:16.020 --> 00:17.190 really works. 00:17.190 --> 00:21.740 It might be a little different than other courses you've taken online depending on how they were structured. 00:21.960 --> 00:25.410 Basically I break the content into a couple of different categories. 00:25.410 --> 00:32.440 The first are things like this video where it's a video of me talking usually with Lou and you know 00:32.440 --> 00:36.320 what you don't have to watch them to kind of just serve to introduce content. 00:36.450 --> 00:41.310 It's a way for me to kind of interact with you to say hello and to set the stage for what comes next. 00:41.310 --> 00:43.700 And if you're someone who has no patience for that sort of thing. 00:43.980 --> 00:45.260 Absolutely skip it. 00:45.510 --> 00:49.530 So then after that we've got the actual content of the course the lectures. 00:49.530 --> 00:54.730 So there are a ton of videos where it's mostly screen cast and I'm explaining concepts. 00:54.840 --> 00:59.820 I usually make a bunch of diagrams slides I try and make things somewhat visually interesting. 00:59.820 --> 01:05.070 I'm not a great graphic designer but in trying to keep things interesting to look at and then I also 01:05.100 --> 01:08.230 you know type code and there's a lot to watch there ideally. 01:08.240 --> 01:12.770 So it's a combination of slides with me talking over it as well as diagram for animations. 01:12.780 --> 01:17.550 And then most of the time typing code in our text editors and running sequel code. 01:17.880 --> 01:20.910 So those are the lecture videos but then we've also got. 01:20.930 --> 01:27.020 And this is probably the most important part more so even than the lectures which are the exercises. 01:27.150 --> 01:30.260 So one of the things that I think makes my courses stand out a bit. 01:30.360 --> 01:35.520 Some of the feedback I've gotten has to do with exercises and activities and I think the really really 01:35.520 --> 01:36.930 central to making a good course. 01:36.930 --> 01:42.270 So I kind of throw them everywhere in the course and then within those exercises we've got a couple 01:42.270 --> 01:44.480 of different categories of challenges. 01:44.490 --> 01:48.700 The first are what I call rapid fire basically paused the video. 01:48.720 --> 01:54.000 I'll ask you a question very short quiz type questions and then there are the second type of exercises 01:54.270 --> 01:56.170 which usually come at the end of a section. 01:56.250 --> 02:01.800 The last video typically And it's an entire video dedicated to exercises. 02:01.800 --> 02:07.710 Usually there's like five to 10 challenges in that video and then following that there's always a solution 02:07.710 --> 02:09.950 video where I go over the solutions. 02:09.970 --> 02:12.740 Tell you the answer and then also show you myself coding them. 02:12.840 --> 02:17.360 And there's always the solution code is available if you don't care to see me explain it. 02:17.360 --> 02:19.870 If you just want the code you can get that at any time. 02:19.950 --> 02:22.850 And the final type of challenge is more comprehensive. 02:22.850 --> 02:27.960 It's essentially there are a couple of sections that are entirely devoted to exercises so they might 02:27.960 --> 02:32.770 have seven or 10 different videos but they're all about one set of problems. 02:32.850 --> 02:36.840 So there's not many of these in the course that take a while but there are a couple of these challenge 02:36.840 --> 02:37.550 sections. 02:37.770 --> 02:40.620 So just to reiterate we got quick rapid fire questions. 02:40.620 --> 02:45.670 We've got more general kind of summation quizzes and exercises at the end of a section. 02:45.690 --> 02:48.330 And then we've got an entire challenge sections. 02:48.330 --> 02:53.880 And of course after every lecture I include the code of the commands that I type there in a file that 02:53.940 --> 02:55.560 always comes after the lecture. 02:55.710 --> 02:58.780 And it always starts with the word code in all capital letters. 02:58.860 --> 03:04.200 So the last thing I'd like to add is a piece of advice I guess which is that I highly recommend you 03:04.200 --> 03:06.400 do the challenges and do these exercises. 03:06.570 --> 03:08.040 Obviously I have no control over that. 03:08.040 --> 03:10.440 You can just skip through everything and just take the pieces. 03:10.440 --> 03:11.450 Of course you need. 03:11.610 --> 03:16.920 But if you're trying to get the full experience kind of the way that I designed it I would do all the 03:16.920 --> 03:21.050 exercises do the challenges even if that means you know going at a slower pace. 03:21.060 --> 03:26.430 It definitely means you'll go at a slower pace but you'll learn much better and hopefully you'll have 03:26.430 --> 03:27.600 a better experience. 03:27.840 --> 03:32.370 And with that said the other component that's really important are the discussion forums. 03:32.430 --> 03:37.020 We've a full time team in the course as well as myself who are here to help you at any point. 03:37.170 --> 03:38.640 So absolutely lean on that. 03:38.640 --> 03:40.410 Ask any questions you can come up with. 03:40.500 --> 03:41.730 We're here to help. 03:41.730 --> 03:44.280 All right on to the code in the next section.