I found this YouTube channel of a Nigerian developer. The guy has a lot good videos, about 70 of them . And he has been a YouTuber for about 9 months . But he has only 200 subscribers which I believe is because he uses pidgin to teach, I mean pidgin English. I believe this is a bad idea because firstly, he is limiting his audience to Nigerians, secondly, I don’t think there is would be any aspiring developer that doesn’t understand English .

What do you think? Yay or Nah?

Bad

You can drop the name of the channel for those that would prefer to learn in pidgin.

parcydrix:
You can drop the name of the channel for those that would prefer to learn in pidgin.

“Learn Tech In Pidgin English “

The person you speak of is actually a friend, Will you ask if it is a bad idea if someone created a channel to help deaf people understand coding by using hand signs to explain? I don't think so. The targeted audience is low but the person is making an impact.

There are people who really love pidgin English and are more expressive or understand things really well when it is said in pidgin, these people are his targeted audience. Not you with the British accent

Codedboy95:
The person you speak of is actually a friend, Will you ask if it is a bad idea if someone created a channel to help deaf people understand coding by using hand signs to explain? I don't think so. The targeted audience is low but the person is making an impact.

There are people who really love pidgin English and are more expressive or understand things really well when it is said in pidgin, these people are his targeted audience. Not you with the British accent

But his audience will also read articles, blogs, documentations and also watch other tutorials in English. But since you say he is making impact, no problems. We need more Nigerian developers.

chukwuebuka65:
I found this YouTube channel of a Nigerian developer. The guy has a lot good videos, about 70 of them . And he has been a YouTuber for about 9 months . But he has only 200 subscribers which I believe is because he uses pidgin to teach, I mean pidgin English. I believe this is a bad idea because firstly, he is limiting his audience to Nigerians, secondly, I don’t think there is would be any aspiring developer that doesn’t understand English .

What do you think? Yay or Nah?

There are many hindi programming channels on YouTube.

As surprising ad it might be, Nigerian pidgin is understood in few countries.

And lets face it. Not all of us can understand English as comprehensively as we form to be.

He has 200 subscribers means he has people who like his style.

What is important is if he can teach.

qtguru:
Bad

Not bad.

truthCoder:

Not bad.

I would prefer a Global Audience for Ads and sponsors, but maybe he has Nigerians just in mind. that's why I said it feels bad to me.

qtguru:


I would prefer a Global Audience for Ads and sponsors, but maybe he has Nigerians just in mind. that's why I said it feels bad to me.

That's the difference between the both of you. He is trying to help those that might find it hard to learn with conventional English, also making it easier for those in the streets maybe looking for a way out.

He is solving a problem which is the fundamentals of Programming and I believe with time his efforts would pay off.

parcydrix:

That's the difference between the both of you. He is trying to help those that might find it hard to learn with conventional English, also making it easier for those in the streets maybe looking for a way out.

He is solving a problem which is the fundamentals of Programming and I believe with time his efforts would pay off.

Ah I see, valid point

Waste of time and resources. He may be recognized for making contributions to the developer community, but he's not really helping anybody.

It's not wise.

Like BBC pidgin no one listens to lol.


Personally for me I don't fancy it.

People will understand better if he used English... I don't think there's anyone that can operate a computer and think of learning programming without understanding English.


But sha... it's a niche based Chanel so yay!

You can help the guy by posting links to some of his videos here

qtguru:


I would prefer a Global Audience for Ads and sponsors, but maybe he has Nigerians just in mind. that's why I said it feels bad to me.

Why exactly must he have a global audience?

If you want do global audience biko create your own YouTube channel. He has found his niche

Najdorf:
If you want do global audience biko create your own YouTube channel. He has found his niche

Agreed

GREATIGBOMAN:
It's not wise.

Like BBC pidgin no one listens to lol.


Personally for me I don't fancy it.

People will understand better if he used English... I don't think there's anyone that can operate a computer and think of learning programming without understanding English.


But sha... it's a niche based Chanel so yay!

Even with English e hard to understand.

chukwuebuka65:
I found this YouTube channel of a Nigerian developer. The guy has a lot good videos, about 70 of them . And he has been a YouTuber for about 9 months . But he has only 200 subscribers which I believe is because he uses pidgin to teach, I mean pidgin English. I believe this is a bad idea because firstly, he is limiting his audience to Nigerians, secondly, I don’t think there is would be any aspiring developer that doesn’t understand English .

What do you think? Yay or Nah?

Maybe you should focus more on his motives than the numbers.
Was his motive to reach people who prefer using pidgin, if yes then it’s fact that people who go online to find pidgin English videos are few.

It will be more objective if you speak about his quality of video and the work he puts into it. Perhaps if his motive was to get follower then quite alright that is a dead wrong approach. If not then maybe it is not

GREATIGBOMAN:
It's not wise.

Like BBC pidgin no one listens to lol.


Personally for me I don't fancy it.

People will understand better if he used English... I don't think there's anyone that can operate a computer and think of learning programming without understanding English.


But sha... it's a niche based Chanel so yay!

Don't dull. Loads of foreigners listen to and read BBC pidgin. They see it as a tool to learn pidgin English. When I say loads I mean loads