What I've Been Doing & The Future of this Channel

hey how's it going everyone so it's been quite a while since i've made a youtube video but one of my resolutions for 2021 has been to start making some more content so start making some more free courses free content all sorts of stuff like that so i wanted to make this video just real quick to kind of i guess reintroduce myself reintroduce the channel and yeah just kind of give you an idea of what i've been doing for the last few years i've had a lot of people reaching out to me just kind of asking what i've been doing what i've been up to so i'll give you an idea of that and then i want to talk about some of the content that i would like to start creating so i think maybe before we get into any of that it'd be nice to kind of go over i guess a history of like this youtube channel so i started this youtube channel probably like three and a half years ago and i think i uploaded my last video like almost three years ago maybe to the day so originally like i was in school so i was studying in grad school for software engineering and all throughout college like i feel like i really learned the most from video tutorials like one of my favorite youtube channels was like the new boston bucky roberts like that dude taught me so many programming languages so many things and so as i was finishing up school i was like man maybe i should get a job but i really loved teaching and i really loved making videos making content like that so i decided that instead of getting a job i would take some time and just create some like introduction to programming tutorials and the whole goal was just to create a set of introductory tutorials for each of the major programming languages and frameworks and then just release all of them for free so when i graduated from college i basically spent six months just doing that just pumping out content i think over the course of six months so i like created this little website and then i think i created over like 400-ish videos and all of them just teaching like introduction to programming different concepts like that and so over time like the youtube started youtube channel started to grow and eventually i ended up partnering with this nonprofit called free code camp and shared a bunch of my videos with them and it was really when the videos got onto free code camp that they kind of just like exploded and it's been really humbling like millions of people have been learning from these videos especially like with coronavirus there's been a lot of people just in the last year who have been discovering them so for me it's amazing because i just kind of created these videos like in my house during the summer and uh the fact that so many people have been able to learn from them is cool so i want to start getting back into that all that was like three years ago this is a while ago and since then i've uh i've really just been kind of working and i've been doing a ton of traveling and just kind of living my life i i think i was kind of like just burnt out from creating all that content but but one of my resolutions for 2021 is to get back into that so basically the last three years i've been doing a lot of freelancing i've worked for a couple of different companies and i've just been traveling the world so i guess the word for it it's like digital nomad but for like the majority of the last couple years i've just been traveling like all over central america south america europe africa asia india and then recently i was in australia in sydney for like six months and i was teaching this coding boot camp which was super fun so i had like i don't know 35 students and we just went over like full stack web development so everything from like html css up to ruby on rails we learned node.js react all that cool stuff so i've definitely like honed my teaching skills a little bit i think and i would like to just start making more content on here so i guess you know that's really where i'm at right now i have a bunch of cool ideas for for videos that i want to make but i also want to turn it over to the audience i mean a lot of people have been like subscribing to this channel which has been great so it seems like there is some interest in in videos being made so if you have something that you'd like to learn something you want me to cover or at least just like talk about in a video leave a comment below and i can talk about that or i can make a course on it whatever i also thought it'd be kind of a cool idea to do like a little podcast so i get a lot of people messaging me and they're like just asking for like general advice for getting into the industry learning whatever it is right and i think it'd be kind of cool to do that so if you have just like general questions like a lot of people would be like you know what order should i learn things in or like i've already learned these two things what else should i learn after this or what should i put on my resume how should i do this or that if you have questions like that or questions about like digital nomading or traveling the world things like that uh yeah drop a comment and i thought it'd be cool to do a podcast where i just kind of go through and answer all of those maybe like once a week so if it's something that you're interested in just leave a like on this video and yeah and then i can get working on it but ultimately i guess the goal would be to just maybe create a couple videos a week and just keep teaching and keep growing and learning myself so yeah for all those people who have subscribed and who've supported me with donations and everything over the years it's been so cool it's such a cool experience to be able to do this so i'm happy to be able to get back into it and i'm excited to get started so yeah drop those comments below but otherwise i will see you in the next video thanks

Channel: Mike Dane

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Length: 5min 30sec (330 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 25 2021