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With emphasis on downloadable content due to the ease of copy/pasting and searching (useful because I often write personal notes with some ad litteram snippet of the article).
I prefer my documentation portable, offline and backuppable. And no videos, thanks.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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- In a dimly lit bar, over single malt scotch, neat.
That's the only way to discuss programming in my opinion.
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I checked all, as long as I can understand the tutorial 
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honestly, I develop for Android, but developers.android.com is one ugly site... hard to find words.
I go with SO or CP 10000 times before I click on one of those developers.android links.
the format hits you like a wall of text like no other site.
so it basically runs down to online tutorials - no matter whether desktop or tablet... i don't mind, what I have at hand when a question comes up.
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... Which is to say that I absolutely Hate people who don't make the ToC clickable!
Just tick the check-box, morons!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Other 27 2.89 ... come'on people now ...
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I voted Other (as well as online articles, etc) because StackOverflow doesn't fit in any of the categories, and I have on occasion learned quite a lot reading through the responses to a particular question.
Marc
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Videos make you waste time waiting for that one bit of information you need, that they never give you after all, but you don't find out until the end.
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I truly agree with you...
But for new technologies, if you are learning from scratch, videos made quite fast impact.
For day to day work, and deeper concepts, articles proved its worth as it was easily searchable.
Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.
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Sitting down (and feeling relaxed) to watch a video tutorial on Pluralsight, Safari Books Online and Youtube is a great way to learn.
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+1 for Pluralsight - indispensable these days 
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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+1 for pluralsight. 
Its a great tutorial for learning fast and deep.
Life is a computer program and everyone is the programmer of his own life.
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Set off an hour every Friday where the team members (or R&D department members) explains something he/she has learned, experienced, read... to the rest og the group. Presentation fills at most half of the time, then follows questions, dicussions etc.
If there are not enough topics to fill every Friday, pick some new book which everybody should have read (but nobody has - who reads nowadays?), and assign each chapter of the book to one team member, who will present the contents to the group, one chapter every Friday.
Colloquiums at work, with topics selected among your daily problems, ensures that the topic is (resonably) relevant. Even if it isn't right on spot for your problem last week, learning how your colleagues think and work and strive with their problems can improve communication a lot. At the outset, you "speak the same language", use the same terminology, make referefences to examples you all know; you do not need to mentally switch over to some "school" sand pit where you build toy situations, but see the real application of the solutions. The more you do colloquiums, the more harmonized will the group thinking be.
The weekly getogethers for learning something new also has a social effect. It strengthens the ties betwen team/department members, both professionally and in a human sense. The person giving the presentation/introduction usually puts in some extra effort to be well prepared for questions, over-learning the material (which is good in the long run). Also, there are always those who strive to show their cleverness, looking into the issues before the colloqium so that they can ask questions that the presenter can't answer; that can create some very stimulating and enlightening discussions.
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Actually a class room training by an expert is best way to take training for beginners but this is most costly and difficult to arrange  . The second best option is video training. And best way to absorb in depth knowledge is to read best books by experts in close room
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Unless it's for something highly visual like an image editor, video documentation/training is my absolute last choice. I can read for comprehension several times faster than a human can talk, can skim looking for the relevant section of text an order magnitude faster than that, and if I know what the relevant keyboards are my browsers search function is faster still.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Sander casts Osmosis.
Target has no MP.
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He can still try to save against spell to lessen the effect.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Or, as Gandalf said to Captain Picard on the Hogwarts Express, use the Force!
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...and Luke switched off his targeting computer and sent a proton torpedo right through Hogwarts' only vulnerable spot: The kitchen window.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Now you're just making things up.
The kitchen window was the only vulnerable spot of Mount Doom, you of all people should know!
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Since when do I come from Mordor (or speak any language from there)?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Just saying you're the Mordor expert here 
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You give me too much credit. I just know enough to stay clear of anything coming from Mordor.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Ask this question 10 years ago and I'd bet the results would be different...20 years ago of course, real printed books/manuals would have been the top answer. I have around two dozen of those 3-4 inch thick books taking up space in my office, 80% of which are outdated.
Yep, I remember a time before Google! 
That said, I haven't bought a new development book in years...everything you need to know anymore is on the web. However, if the situation were to require me to have a deep understanding of a subject, I would prefer reading a real book.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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