Lightning Talk: Experience teaching Erlang/Elixir on YouTube

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Two YouTube channels: an English-only channel focused on Elixir and Erlang and a Portuguese channel with broader content. Content targets beginners: short tutorials, a learn-by-reading series through a free book, exercise walkthroughs (Exercism, Advent of Code) and talks reused from university classes. Output so far: about 16 recent Elixir videos with modest view counts ~1.2k, ~15 early Erlang videos, one mixed-language video that underperformed; community feedback is sparse and success metrics are unclear.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:05My focus is more on beginners than on experienced developers
3. 5:08How comfortable are you with youtube's algorithm and the rule that it imposes to content creators?
4. 5:59As a non-English native, I too have a recurrent doubt about creating content in a language other than English (Portuguese/Galician Spanish...) Given that you do both, what are your thoughts on this?
5. 7:52I am very interested in the idea of teaching Erlang/Elixir to beginners. Do you find it is easier to to teach programming to people who's minds have not been polluted by imperative programming
6. 9:02How do you measure success? How do you know if people actually learned from your videos? il mean... beside just watching them
7. 10:07What about comments? I assume you keep them open... have you ever got ideas for further videos from them?

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