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YTCoder - Towards Turning YouTube into a Development Environment

Published: 17 October 2020 Publication History

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YouTube is one of the most popular video sharing platforms that hosts many video tutorials which aim to teach concepts of various programming languages. Most of these tutorials include code snippets in the videos. However, it is important that the learners have hands-on experience while learning various programming concepts. Providing a code editor along with the video tutorial could help learners get a better learning experience, as they have a scope to learn by practice. Existing solutions of accompanying video tutorials with code editors are either pre-programmed or require a separate web portal. We are not aware of any solutions in the current literature that aim to support Youtube video tutorials. Hence, we present YTCoder in this paper that aims to improve the learning experience by integrating videos related to various programming languages with the development environments of the respective programming languages. Demonstration of YTCoder can be found here - https://youtu.be/iONtO7cuQwo.

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    CSCW '20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2020 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
    October 2020
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    DOI:10.1145/3406865
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    2. programming languages
    3. video tutorials
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