6 Great Coding YouTube Channels You Probably Don’t Know

Lesser known YouTubers that provide great content

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The field of web development and programming is always onto something new, be it a framework or a new language.

Leveling up your programming skills every once in a while is necessary even if you are an experienced developer.

However, paying for courses whenever something new hits the market can be expensive and hinder learning.

Hence, most of us prefer to first head over to YouTube for tutorials and comparisons.

We all know about well-renowned channels such as freeCodeCamp.org but there a lot of unpopular and underrated channels worth checking out.

These channels provide a fresh perspective, tutorials, and opinions.

Below are 6 unpopular YouTube channels you need to know:

1. Eddie Jaoude

Source: Eddie Jaoude YouTube Channel

This channel is incredible if you are a frontend developer who loves open source projects and wants to contribute to them.

The channel is maintained by a full-stack engineer with over 15 years of experience.

He mostly covers topics surrounding open-source projects and guides as well as occasional dives into frameworks such as Vue.js.

2. Sunil Sandhu

Sunil’s channel is an excellent source of content for front-end developers and self-taught programmers.

What I like about his channel is that he provides comprehensive guides and videos on some of the more confusing programming concepts, such as Closures and Recursion.

Besides this, he also covers non-technical skills and trends related to software development.

3. Philipp Lackner

Source: Philipp Lackner Channel

Finding up-to-date tutorials on Android app development is not as easy as finding the same for web development.

Philip Lackner’s YouTube channel covers Android app development as well as provides full tutorials on how to build clones of popular apps from scratch.

He has extensively covered various topics concerning Android apps such as Firebase, navigation widgets(e.g. Slidable menu), RecyclerView as well as MVVM and permissions.

This channel is definitely worth checking even if you are a beginner in the app development world.

4. Faraday Academy

Source: Faraday Academy Channel

Faraday Academy is maintained by Gwen who is a senior software developer.

Her channel is an incredible source of tutorials and videos in the web development field.

She covers Vue, Agile, Django, REST API, and other similar subjects.

This channel provides programming related material every week.

You can find a lot of live streams and interviews discussing not only the technical aspects but also the non-technical aspects you need to become a great developer.

5. CodeBeauty

Source: CodeBeauty YouTube Channel

This channel was started recently, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, and is maintained by Saldina Nurak, who is a software engineer.

This channel is an ideal place for absolute beginner programmers.

Although she has covered HTML and CSS, her channel is mostly dedicated to the C++ language.

She has covered some of the widely-used concepts such as function overloading, ciphertexts, pointers, inheritance, etc.

6. Anson The Developer

Source: Anson The Developer Channel

His channel is primarily geared towards front-end developers.

You can find guides and tutorials on a variety of frameworks and libraries related to the web development field.

Besides this, you can see the implementation of APIs and libraries such as Discord.js.

Moreover, you can also find beginner-friendly tutorials on Deno, Express, and JavaScript.

His channel also provides comprehensive tutorials on building apps from scratch using MERN, GraphQL, etc.

Final Thoughts

Web development is a specialized field that covers a host of different subjects and the field is constantly evolving with new frameworks and language coming out frequently.

Therefore, it is mandatory to level up and refresh our programming knowledge every once in a while to keep up with the advancements.

YouTube is a great place to start learning and finding relevant content and even though there are a lot of well-established channels, YouTube has a ton of unpopular and underrated channels as well.

I have tried to cover some of the underrated YouTube channels that have helped me a lot and deserve more recognition.

Thanks for reading!