My Favourite Tech YouTube Channels

Aiden Kwong

You could learn programming without paying any money to buy courses or go to any boot camps. Here is a list of my favorite YouTube channels that deliver not only tutorials but also some tech news or fun stuff.

Fireship

https://www.youtube.com/@Fireship

By the time I’m writing this blog, Fireship has already had 1.85M subscribers on his YouTube channel. The most famous series on his YouTube channel is the “100 Seconds of Code” series. Thousands of technologies and projects come out every day. As a developer, it’s so hard to get a grasp on what those technologies are unless you have unlimited time to read through tons of documentation. The “100 Seconds of Code” series give you a very good and brief summary of what those technologies are, such as

ThePrimeagen

https://www.youtube.com/@ThePrimeagen

As a popular Twitch streamer and Vim enthusiast, ThePrimeagen is known for his fast-paced tmux and Neovim-focused workflow, shifting quickly between windows, buffers, and code chunks. He is also an ex-Netflix software engineer. He talks different stuff about programming and they are fun to watch.

Computerphile

https://www.youtube.com/@Computerphile

Computerphile is a YouTube channel that focuses on computer science and programming. It features computer scientists, web developers, and professors discussing various topics related to computer science, such as web development, game development, mobile app development, AI, and database programming. The channel is aimed at promoting fast learning and helping students to effectively grasp a concept in a short time.

The channel also explains parallel computing paradigms such as MapReduce and its open-source implementation Hadoop. It is known for providing good-quality videos that explain anything related to programming or computer science. It is considered an amazing channel for learning about the workings of computers and computer code.

ByteByteGo

https://www.youtube.com/@ByteByteGo

ByteByteGo is a YouTube channel about large-scale system design, and it is managed by Alex Xu and Sahn Lam. The channel covers topics and trends in system design, and it is from the authors of the best-selling System Design Interview book series.

In addition to the YouTube channel, ByteByteGo also has a newsletter, which explains complex systems in simple terms. The newsletter has over 200,000 subscribers. One of the most popular videos on their YouTube channel is about why is Kafka so fast.

CodeAesthetic

https://www.youtube.com/@CodeAesthetic

CodeAesthetic is a very new channel which has its first video 2 months before. It is a channel about how to write clean code and some good practices.

CodeAesthetic has a Patreon page where supporters can help keep the code clean by selecting a membership level. The support can also include access to behind-the-scenes content, source code for the videos, and early access to videos before the public. The channel currently has 94 patrons.

Traversy Media

https://www.youtube.com/@TraversyMedia

Traversy Media is an American YouTube channel I watch at the beginning of my programming learning journey. It provides tutorials on web development and programming. The channel was started by Brad Traversy, who started coding in 2007 at the age of 26 and became a full-time educator and content creator in 2016. The channel aims to show people that they don’t have to be a straight-A student or a genius to learn to code and focuses on breaking down complex concepts by implementing them in project-based courses and tutorials.

Traversy Media offers practical project-based courses on web development that are easy to understand and straight to the point with no fluff. The courses cover topics from the building blocks of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to frontend frameworks like React and Vue, to backend technologies like Node.js, Python, and PHP.

There are plenty more YouTube channels that are great but not included here. Feel free to share with me if you have some YouTube channels or tech YouTubers who are great.