Adam Learns is an edutainment show. I tackle various projects/topics and focus on the learning process live on Twitch, then I teach that material as courses here on The AcAdamy.
If you're watching right now on Twitch, check out the !today command; that is always updated with the current day's task.
See the up-to-date stream schedule on Twitch directly.
The first episode aired on Monday, February 17th, 2020. Here's every project ever covered on Adam Learns since then.
Back in April of 2019, I was approached by a non-profit called FIRST to produce content for their robotics championship. I agreed, and we settled on what the content would look like—I'd be doing game development streams live from their stages in Houston and Detroit. I also had to interview students participating in the competition to find out their motivations, the robots they'd made, etc.
I got a lot of positive feedback from the event, and it got me wondering if game development was the best application of my skills. It reminded me of comedian/musician Reggie Watts, whom I believe figured out a unique way of combining his talents into something commercial. So in May of 2019, I created a note called "Adam Learns" and started adding ideas to it when inspiration struck.
If you want to help without spending any money, then you can follow any of these social-media platforms that you're interested in:
If you're looking to spend money, then either subscribe on Twitch or buy a course!
For now, there's no formal process in place, so feel free to suggest it on Discord.
Everything that I do outside of The AcAdamy is essentially just to market The AcAdamy. This is a large reason why I'm producing so much free content alongside the paid content: all of the Twitch live-streaming time, pseudo-open-source notes and repos, etc.—they're to spread the word about the paid courses.
There are three major rules for chat:
I've always said that I'm the arbiter of my own time, meaning you shouldn't have to worry about whether you're derailing me with a question. Depending on how fast chat is moving, I won't be able to respond to everything.
I may be standing! I try to stand for a few hours every day if I can. I find that I move more when I'm standing, so I think it's better for my posture. The desk that I have is from Costco, and the approximate link is here (the link kept changing, so I'm now linking to the Wayback Machine).
You're not going to like this answer!
I started out as a hobbyist probably around the age of 13. After coding as a hobby for a while, I started taking classes, went to college (got a bachelor's degree), got some professional jobs, quit to work full-time on Twitch, got another professional job, then quit again to work full-time on content creation.
I use a 36-key Corne (video about my keyboard journey) that I built myself. Here's the keymap for it, and here's a newer video I did explaining what the Corne is all about.
As of late 2023, yes. I think that streaming will take up ~20 hours per week, then some amount of time will be spent on YouTube videos, courses, community engagement, planning, etc.
Because it works well and I get Bing Rewards for free money.
I switched from Windows to macOS on my personal computer in 2023 for a few reasons:
They're not major reasons and I don't have anything against Windows or Linux.
I live in the Greater Seattle Area.
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I wrote a blog post on this that I highly suggest reading. There aren't many specifics in there, but I find that it's good information for any new programmer to read through.
I made a course specifically on this topic that I suggest you take a look at!
Here's the spreadsheet. It includes specs and prices where applicable.
The language that I use varies from project to project, so you'll have to use the !language command in the Twitch stream.
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