Working in the technology field requires you to be updated on what’s new and what is going on. This is one of the most aspects a technology person needs to maintain. The industry is continually evolving, giving you no room to depend on your old information. And forcing you to always keep updated.

There are many resources that a technology person can depend on to receive that information as we live in the multimedia era. Websites, podcasts, books, and YouTube channels are examples of those resources. In this blog, I will share with you my favourite channel among the described above. And moreover, I will specify which content I am following on it.

YouTube is my first destination in most of the time for so many reasons. As competency between the content providers is at its highest level. Many of the great technology content providers are publishing fantastic videos that are so informative of new things running around the world.

In my case, being a full-stack developer gave me the opportunity to work with different technologies. and for me, when watching YouTube channels, will link both verbal and visual learning which makes the new ideas stick more in my brain, compared to other channels.

As I promised you, I will share the top 5 YouTube channels that I am following, it might help you as well as it helped me a lot.

Web div simplified

This channel is run by Kyle Cook. A young and so knowledgeable person who simplifies things in a way that attracts you to learn more. The channel concentrates on teaching the skills needed to build a web application, that includes the basics and advanced concepts of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Moreover, Kyle presents new ideas and projects that will involve and connect many other related technologies. He uses some of the most famous libraries out there. The way that Kyle teaches is unbelievable. He has his way to attract followers. Just watch one video and you will know exactly what I am talking about. Kyle has his own web page as well that provides in-details courses that will definitely help you in your career progress. So, it is time to stop what you are doing and just give it a chance and have a look at his channel.

The Net Ninja

This channel is run by Shaun Pelling and again covers a lot of web development technology tutorials in a kind of a unique way of presentation. Like web dive simplified, Shaun has his own flavour to attract the audience. He covers tons of topics, and he is always up to date. His topics cover Modern JavaScript (beginner to advanced) - Node.js - React - Vue.js - Firebase - MongoDB - HTML & CSS - PHP & MySQL - Laravel - React Native - Flutter ...And many more topics as well.

what makes that channel different is that Shaun creates small projects that cover big concepts and then divides them into smaller series of videos. Each video covers one or two functions at a time. You will follow those tiny steps and suddenly will find yourself covered a very complex concept in no time.

Kevin Powel

Guess what, In the past week I got the opportunity to connect in direct video chat with one of the greatest people who simplify the CSS in your life. The big thank you goes to my Professor Vladimir Cezar who is making huge personal efforts to connect us as students with such knowledgeable motivational people.

Kevin was hosted in our previous week's lecture for about 1 hour for useful content and Q&A sessions. For those who don’t know Kevin. He is known as the CSS Master. He is specialized in that strange thing called CSS and he is so good at it. Kevin tries to make CSS much easier for people and shows you how you need to approach it.

Can you imagine, in just 30 minutes of a live class, he was able to resolve many mysterious things about CSS? Not sure what if the class was for full 2 hours!!

So if you are afraid like me of that thing called CSS, Kevin Powel is your first destination and you can thank me later after subscribing to his YouTube channel.

Simplilearn

The Simplilearn channel is known as the world’s #1 online Bootcamp and one of the world’s leading certification training providers. As per their channel description, it is Based in San Francisco, California, and Bangalore, India, they provide training in areas where technologies and best practices are changing rapidly, and the demand for qualified candidates significantly exceeds the supply. They have trained over 3,000,000 professionals, have over 2000 qualified trainers on board, and offer over 400 courses with 40 plus global accreditations. With live instructions from leading experts, interactive labs & projects, peer-to-peer collaboration, on-demand lessons, and 24/7 learning support, they provide learners with a comprehensive curriculum at a fraction of the cost of an on-campus program.

Steve Griffith - Prof3ssorSt3v3

Steve is my professor at Algonquin college, and I know him in person. Therefore it is different from others for me. Steve is a wonderful person although he seems the busiest as he is coordinating our program in Algonquin college which is “Mobile Applications Design and Development” and he teaches us as well some of the coursed. It is an amazing feeling when you get the chance to have a direct connection with such a person. Although he is so busy but so responsive at the same time. He is totally understanding and never hesitates to repeat again and again until making sure you gaped the full idea. His videos on YouTube are based on the requests coming from his own students and followers. I have never approached Steve through comments on his YouTube channel, but I strongly believe he will be very responsive. Steve started doing web development back in 1997. That makes him experienced enough to deliver such huge content. Just search his name on YouTube and it will lead you directly to his channel.

Those channels have helped me a lot during my full stack development journey, and I strongly recommend it for anyone in different levels ranging between beginners and advanced skills. You will have new information as those content providers are truly legendary in what they do. The content they deliver is very high quality that involves video quality, editing and the video content itself.

Leaning through a YouTube channel saves you a lot of time as those people are doing the hard part for you of collecting data, and then working on squeezing, simplifying, and visualizing it so it becomes easy to digest on your end.

I am not saying that you need to concentrate only on YouTube and neglect other channels. But as mentioned before, in my opinion, YouTube works the best most of the time.