{"id":136,"date":"2020-06-04T21:00:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T21:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synchedin.com\/blog\/?p=136"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:15:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T11:15:05","slug":"best-youtube-channels-that-teach-programming-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/licensing.routenote.com\/blog\/best-youtube-channels-that-teach-programming-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Best Programming YouTube Channels"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you want to get into coding or building sites, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">YouTube<\/a> can help. Here&#8217;s a collection of the best programming YouTube channels!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#1:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MIT OpenCourseWare<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MIT has a great YouTube channel with tons of lectures on a wide variety of programming languages and technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#2:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/thenewboston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New Boston<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A popular channel that offers screencast tutorials on Java, C, JavaScript, and other languages. If you like long video tutorials, this is a good place to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#3:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Computerphile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Computerphile<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my favorite channels, Computerphile covers a wide range of technology concepts, such as databases and information security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#4:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCyIe-61Y8C4_o-zZCtO4ETQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DevTips<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Travis Neilson\u2019s channel focuses mainly on front end development and has some excellent CSS tutorials. Also, he recently got a job at Google and documents their interview process in detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#5:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/EngineeredTruth\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Engineered Truth<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew Tran is a recent engineering graduate who focuses on helping engineers learn to code. He\u2019s interviewed a lot of developers, including Travis Nelson and myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#6:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/learncodeacademy\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LearnCode.academy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This channel has a lot of video tutorials on JavaScript technologies, such as React and Redux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#7:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCpOIUW62tnJTtpWFABxWZ8g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Codecourse<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This channel covers PHP and MySQL, with practical examples like how to build an e-commerce site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#8:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCyU5wkjgQYGRB0hIHMwm2Sg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LevelUpTuts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a great resource for tutorials on PHP and WordPress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#9&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCO1cgjhGzsSYb1rsB4bFe4Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">funfunfunction<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fellow Quora contributor&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/profile\/Mattias-Petter-Johansson\">Mattias Petter Johansson<\/a>&nbsp;has a YouTube channel that focuses on JavaScript and functional programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#10:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/pizzapokerguy87\/playlists?sort=dd&amp;view=50&amp;shelf_id=12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Coding Tutorials 360<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This channel has screencast walkthroughs of how to complete coding challenges on sites like&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/freecodecamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Free Code Camp<\/a>&nbsp;and Code Combat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#11&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Coding Rainbow<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daniel Shiffman\u2019s channel covers Python and data visualization in depth, and is pretty fun to watch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to get into coding or building sites, YouTube can help. 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If you like long video tutorials, this is a good place to start. #3:&nbsp;Computerphile One of my favorite channels, Computerphile covers a wide range of technology concepts, such as databases and information security. #4:&nbsp;DevTips Travis Neilson\u2019s channel focuses mainly on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[277,282],"tags":[91,104,101,102,96,103,94,98,99,93,97,95,100,92,15],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v15.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>11 Best Programming YouTube Channels - RouteNote Licensing Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you want to get into coding or building sites, YouTube can help. 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