I've made an Arduino tutorial series on YouTube so anyone with no prior knowledge can start from zero!
It already has 4 episodes, and I'll keep releasing more soon. However, it hasn't really reached many people, so if you can check it out and give me some feedback for the next ones, that'd be great!
Link: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWZra7do5sBhB-k8a4GkhM7mrBNfNT4xq&si=pFRkQpnv2NkP-UqA
I watched part of it and you have a great start. One problem I was having was the audio level was way to low making it hard to understand you. I expect many others will find this a good resource.
I highly recommend remove the background music. It is distracting and makes it hard to hear what you are saying. Thank you for making the series; you are a good speaker.
Really? I thought it'd be useful to make a subject like coding a bit more engaging, especially for younger audiences... Are you able to point to a specific moment or video, or did you mean it for all of them? Thank you.
I believe the subject matter is either engaging or not, and the music is distracting and makes me want to stop the video and move on to other things. A very short introductory theme song would be OK, but no music during the lesson. Just my opinion.
Its a good initiative. Making a subject matter like coding interesting and engaging for someone who has not yet formed an opinion on the matter is a challenge so well done for your efforts so far.
Unfortunately, I do have to agree that generally, continuous background music in educational videos can be very distracting particularly when one is trying to concentrate on understanding the concept or principle being discussed or when it makes it more difficult to hear what the speaker is saying. There are, unfortunately, plenty of videos out that make exactly this mistake and I generally find myself turning them off after a minute or two because they get too frustrating to watch. I guess it may, at least to some extent, depend on the person watching and perhaps there is a balance where music, sound effects and jingles can be used now and again as in intro, for humor, to add effect, or to emphasize something, but IHMO continuous music in the background is generally counterproductive.
The overall volume is one concern. When background music is added, it tends to
distract from the presentation. As we get older, it becomes harder to understand
the speaker because the music and voice blend together.
I also noticed during the second recording that your voice was difficult to
understand, it sounded somewhat distorted. My hearing is not perfect; the natural
filters are gone, so I can no longer separate sounds the way I used to. At the
same time, my ears are still very sensitive, I can hear something as small as a
pin drop onto a cement floor.
I have virtually abandoned you tube as a source of information due to the presenter being drowned out by invasive “background music” and arm flapping that make it all but impossible to focus on the substance of the message.