Videos for developers

Jeff Su, a full time product marketer, makes short, well structured videos on workplace productivity, Google Workspace, Notion, LinkedIn and practical use of AI tools. Each video is a tight list of tips you can apply the same day. It suits students and early career professionals, including developers, who want to work faster and present themselves better at work.

• Career
• AI
• Personal branding

Brad Traversy's long-running channel of practical web development tutorials: HTML, CSS and JavaScript crash courses, React and Vue, Node.js, Python and PHP back ends, and many full project builds. The style is calm, project-first and easy to follow. It suits beginners and self-taught developers who learn best by building a complete app alongside the video.

• Web
• Backend
• Programming
• Frontend

The video home of The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast, where Gergely Orosz holds long conversations with engineers, founders and engineering leaders about how software actually gets built, how careers grow and how AI is changing the work. Episodes are slow, detailed and practical. It suits working developers from a couple of years in up to engineering managers who want an honest view of the industry rather than hype.

• Career
• Leadership
• AI

Tutorial-style videos on electronics and computer architecture, best known for building an 8-bit computer and a 6502-based computer on breadboards, one wire at a time. There are also series on digital electronics, networking and error detection. It suits anyone who wants to understand how a computer actually works from logic gates up.

• CS fundamentals

Fast, dense, funny videos by Jeff Delaney on web development, programming languages, AI tools and tech news. Home of the 100 Seconds of Code explainers and The Code Report. It suits any developer who wants a quick, accurate picture of a tool or a trend before deciding whether to spend real time on it.

• Web
• Programming
• Frontend
• AI

Nana Janashia, a Docker Captain and AWS Container Hero, teaches DevOps and cloud with clear diagrams and long, structured tutorials on Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform, Prometheus and more. Short "explained in 5 minutes" videos sit alongside full beginner courses. It suits developers and students moving into DevOps, cloud or platform roles.

• DevOps
• Cloud

Free, short, carefully drawn videos that explain statistics and machine learning one small step at a time: p-values, regression, PCA, random forests, gradient descent, neural networks and transformers. When a textbook formula refuses to make sense, a StatQuest video is usually the quickest way to the intuition behind it.

• AI
• Machine learning

Talks and full workshops from the AI Engineer conferences, including the AI Engineer World's Fair, where engineers, founders and researchers explain how they build with large language models and agents. Tracks cover agents, evals, context engineering, memory, security, platform engineering and more. It suits developers already building with LLMs who want to learn from teams shipping them in production.

• AI

Hitesh Choudhary's Hindi-language channel, popular with learners across India and Pakistan: JavaScript, TypeScript, full stack Next.js projects, Django, Java and Spring Boot, mobile development, Git and AI, taught in a relaxed chat-over-tea style. It suits beginners and students who learn more comfortably in Hindi or Urdu and want long, project-based series.

• Web
• Programming
• Frontend

Freelancing, digital marketing, SEO, WordPress, copywriting and AI automation taught in Urdu by Hisham Sarwar, one of the best known voices on online work in Pakistan. Alongside skills courses, he answers viewers' questions about earning online, clients and personal discipline in a mentor's tone. It suits Pakistani students and graduates who want to start earning online and prefer learning in Urdu.

• Career

NetworkChuck makes energetic, hands-on IT videos on networking, Linux, ethical hacking, Python, Docker, home labs and automation, with a strong push towards IT careers and certifications such as CCNA and Security+. Videos usually have you building something on your own machine. It suits beginners curious about IT, networking and security who learn best by doing.

• DevOps
• Programming
• Career

One of the largest programming channels in South Asia, teaching in Hindi: the Sigma Web Development Course, a 100 Days of Code Python course, and series on JavaScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Java, C, C++, PHP, Django and deployment on a VPS. Videos are quick, practical and beginner first. It suits students in India and Pakistan starting from zero who learn best in Hindi or Urdu.

• Web
• Programming
• Frontend

The official channel of DeepLearning.AI, founded by Andrew Ng, with lectures from its Coursera programmes including the Deep Learning Specialization and the Machine Learning Specialization, plus recorded events and conversations. The lectures are calm, structured and strong on intuition. It suits beginners and intermediate learners who want a trusted, course-like grounding in machine learning and deep learning.

• AI
• Machine learning

Kevin Powell's channel is one of the best known places on YouTube to learn CSS properly: layout, responsive design, the cascade and specificity, units, container queries, view transitions and new CSS features, plus semantic HTML and forms. Weekly videos and shorts. It suits anyone who can write CSS but still fights it, from beginners to experienced frontend developers.

• Web
• Frontend

A free video series from 3Blue1Brown that explains vectors, matrices, determinants, change of basis and eigenvectors as geometric transformations you can watch happen. It is for students and developers heading into machine learning, graphics or data work who can do matrix arithmetic but do not really see what it means. A few evenings with it make later maths courses and ML papers far easier to follow.

• Machine learning
• CS fundamentals

A free series of 40 short videos hosted by Carrie Anne Philbin and produced with PBS Digital Studios, running from electricity, logic gates and binary through CPUs, memory, programming languages, operating systems, networks, the internet, security and AI. It gives beginners the whole picture of how a computer works in a few evenings, which makes later programming and CS courses far easier to follow.

• CS fundamentals

Career growth advice for software engineers from Steve Huynh, a former Amazon Principal Software Engineer with nearly 20 years of experience. Videos cover performance reviews, promotion, high-value skills, communication and how the AI era is changing engineering careers, including live coaching sessions with engineers moving from mid-level to senior and senior to staff. It suits working engineers who want to grow faster and understand how promotion really works.

• Career
• Leadership

Python programming tutorials that go past the basics into machine learning, deep learning, robotics, data analysis and more, taught by Harrison Kinsley. Many series build a working project step by step, from neural networks written from scratch to reinforcement learning agents and self-driving car simulations. It suits learners who know some Python and want to build things with it.

• AI
• Programming
• Machine learning

Free data science, machine learning, deep learning and generative AI courses taught in Hindi by Nitish Singh, founder of CampusX. Long structured playlists such as 100 Days of Deep Learning, Maths for Machine Learning and Generative AI using LangChain explain the intuition and the maths before the code. It suits Hindi and Urdu speaking students who want a patient, course-like path through data science and AI.

• AI
• Machine learning
• Programming

A free three and a half hour lecture by Andrej Karpathy that explains, for a general audience, how models like ChatGPT are built: pretraining data, tokenisation, the neural network, post-training and reinforcement learning. It suits developers and students who use LLMs daily and want a clear mental model of why they hallucinate, struggle with counting letters and behave the way they do.

• AI
• Machine learning

A long running YouTube channel where university researchers and practitioners explain computer science topics in short videos, from hashing, compression and cryptography to floating point, AI and security. It is produced with the University of Nottingham and suits self-taught developers and students who want to fill theory gaps casually, without committing to a course.

• CS fundamentals
• DSA

A weekly advice podcast in which two experienced software developers, Dave Smith and Jamison Dance, answer two listener questions an episode about the non-technical side of the job: difficult managers and teammates, promotions, job hunting and interviewing, quitting, and negotiating pay. It has passed 500 episodes. It suits engineers at any stage who want practical, often funny advice on workplace situations they cannot easily discuss at work.

• Career

JavaScript30 is Wes Bos's free video course of 30 small projects built in plain JavaScript, with no frameworks, libraries, compilers or boilerplate. Projects include a drum kit, a clock, a custom video player, speech recognition, a sticky nav and a whack-a-mole game, each with starter files and a finished solution. It suits beginners who want momentum and developers whose JavaScript only works inside a framework.

• Web
• Programming
• Frontend

A free video course by Andrej Karpathy that builds neural networks from scratch in Python, starting with backpropagation on single numbers and ending with a GPT-style transformer and its tokeniser. It is for programmers who want to understand what deep learning frameworks do underneath, so that training problems stop being a mystery. It needs solid Python and basic calculus.

• AI
• Machine learning
• Programming