What tutorials/courses you feel is missing in the market?

Being an instructor at both Lynda/Linkedin Learning and O'Reilly , I constantly have conversations with the content folks at both these companies. So I'm asking this question to get some feedback from the field with developers/designers. What subjects you feel aren't covered enough?

How to write a programming language / how web languages work under the hood -- Show how something is compiled into JS or PHP
Programming principles taught practically (like SOLID) instead of abstractly

Those are interesting asks. On the first one, what would be the use case or how do you intend to use this knowledge? Curious.

Manny Henri Stuff like Swoole that came out recently for PHP was an implementation on C. It'd be interesting to see what people can hack together and invent the new NodeJS for X.

I'd also be very interested in a course on programming languages, but: 1) it'd have to be a big course to cover enough to make an interesting language, and 2) I don't know how big the market is, it's a somewhat popular hobby project but most people aren't interested or aren't experienced enough.

I would say: History. And I don't mean giving one or two examples during a full computer science course. I mean a full course on History. Important figures from the past who had an impact on technology. Like Augusta Ada King, who was in a way, already thinking of how to write computer programs. I would say the most valuable things what we can learn from history are "What they did" and especially "Why they did what they did". Imagine you would like to master a programming language. I would say one of the key factors is not knowing how to program, but knowing how it actually works. Underwater. Why the language was done in this way (e.g. performance, structural) and not many of the other ways?. Who where the people behind the language? What was their life like? What choices did they make and why? What could they have done better? There are plenty of sources online to find this out yourself, but it demands a lot of time. Having a course on this regarding the most fundamental topics has a lot of value for a developer. As a developer you want to reach the point of saying: Ask my anything about my field of expertise. I know it all.

That's an interesting comment, and thanks for this. I'll discuss it with the Linkedin and O'Reilly teams to see if there is demand for this type of subject and if so will get on the subject myself.

Something which shows how to built a project from all phases of software development and how to maintain it. As most of the tutorial are like using x language make a todo app, but they dont provide any information on how to make app step by step or making algos to tackle each problem, they just start coding.

You should see some of that in my courses. I never use the Todo app example. In my react/meteor course I even do some algorithms near the end of the course to calculate some stats for the soccer/football team. If you want to take a look: lynda.com/React-js-tutorials/Building-App-React-j…

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Since programming is all about solving a problem or making things in real life easier... #Problem statement# once this is settled, the programmer has a roadmap to the issue.
The new smart contract language rho-lang

A year ago I was trying to learn a bit of vue.js.

I know HTML, CSS, and a bit of JS. No previous libraries/frameworks experience. Also rarely used a terminal and all the stuff it's used for such as task runners and bundlers and all that stuff. I've been mostly developing sites using WordPress, so my set up has always been quite simple.

The hardest thing I found when trying to learn Vue, was understanding the big picture. All the tutorial went straight to the smaller things, making it very hard to understand why things were done the way they were, or even why or when I should use a framework in the first place.

I was wishing I could find a tutorial that would simply explain what MVC, MVVM, routers, templates, etc. were in a simple way for those who have never done anything which such a set up before. Not focused on any particular technology and no details. Only the basics of such setups/ ecosystems seen from the bigger picture, that can apply that all the frameworks.

There may be such tutorials/courses by now, but I haven't found one on Lynda yet.

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