{"id":1773,"date":"2015-10-29T07:22:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T12:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2018-05-04T09:26:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T14:26:29","slug":"matlab-code-along-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2015\/10\/29\/matlab-code-along-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"MATLAB Code-Along Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next set of videos that I post, starting tomorrow,\u00a0use\u00a0a style similar to &#8220;code-along&#8221; videos. This style has been used to capture real-time software development in other languages (e.g. on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/WatchPeopleCode\" target=\"_blank\">Twitch TV<\/a>) after it became popular with video game play capture. It includes all the mistakes, twists and turns, back tracking, and sometimes frustration of real-life development.<\/p>\n<p>These videos will show\u00a0me using MATLAB to solve a\u00a0problem from start to finish, not knowing what the solution looks like when I start out. I did edit the videos for time more than is typically done for this style. However, the journey to a solution is still never a straight one, so these videos include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mistakes: some of them pretty stupid, some of which are obvious immediately (as they cause errors) and some that are only discovered later. Can you spot them before I do?<\/li>\n<li>Implementations that I worked on for a while only to find that they are a bad idea and needed to be scrapped in favor of an entirely new way<\/li>\n<li>Looking up the documentation to find out how to use a feature<\/li>\n<li>Copying snippets from existing code<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The goal of these code-along videos is not primarily to teach MATLAB, but to show software development in a realistic &#8220;warts and all&#8221; way, and at the same time cover some MATLAB capabilities and features in the process.<\/p>\n<p>This is an experiment. Maybe it&#8217;s a good idea. Maybe it&#8217;s a stupid idea. What do you think? I&#8217;m very curious to know, so please tell me in the comment section below. Your comments will help me decide if this is a one-time experiment or a regular occurrence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The next set of videos that I post, starting tomorrow,\u00a0use\u00a0a style similar to &#8220;code-along&#8221; videos. This style has been used to capture real-time software development in other languages&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2015\/10\/29\/matlab-code-along-videos\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3654,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/3654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}