> what project is the person working on? - what "feature" are they working on? - what are they trying to achieve at this very moment?
I used to do a bunch of livecoding myself, actually.
I agree with you that most programming does not lend itself too well to livecoding. But there is one niche that I believe lends itself extremely well to live coding.
This niche being whiteboard programming questions/interview practice.
In this niche, the whole point of the exercise is to work on self contained problems that can be solved within 30 minutes, and to talk out loud to your audience the entire time.
Was pretty fun when I was doing it. I was doing it mostly for practice, and now I work at twitch because of it.
And if I ever create my own startup, it will probably be something like "running a recruitment firm on twitch, by getting people to do interviews live".
Edit: Videos of my old stream are here: www.twitch.tv/stale2000/videos
Dad! I was hoping you would show up on this thread and was actually about to comment about you, whiteboard problems really are perfect for twitch I think, but you're the only one that I've seen do them
That is am excellent story! Thanks for sharing :). I used to do things like ruby koans and Euler project stuff back when I was live streaming. You make a really good point about how the shorter stuff lends itself well to live streaming.
> what project is the person working on? - what "feature" are they working on? - what are they trying to achieve at this very moment?
I used to do a bunch of livecoding myself, actually.
I agree with you that most programming does not lend itself too well to livecoding. But there is one niche that I believe lends itself extremely well to live coding.
This niche being whiteboard programming questions/interview practice.
In this niche, the whole point of the exercise is to work on self contained problems that can be solved within 30 minutes, and to talk out loud to your audience the entire time.
Was pretty fun when I was doing it. I was doing it mostly for practice, and now I work at twitch because of it.
And if I ever create my own startup, it will probably be something like "running a recruitment firm on twitch, by getting people to do interviews live".
Edit: Videos of my old stream are here: www.twitch.tv/stale2000/videos