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Coding, or computer programming, is a list of instructions that tells a computer which actions to perform and how to do them. Programmers make life easy for the rest of us who have no expertise in writing the code behind software, games, websites, and apps but want to use the technology. Check out these coding influencers for a peek into the computer programming world.

10 coding influencers who share their knowledge, talent and busy lifestyle

Jonathan Ma

Posting content about coding, software engineering, tech companies, data science, and life in Silicon Valley, Jonathan somehow manages to inject humor into what otherwise might be a boring subject to some. There are tips on how to get a job in the industry and interviews with a variety of experts, including his brother, who is a machine learning engineer. But laughs can be found in his funny videos, like “If Squid Game were about programmers” and “Crypto traders be like …

Tina Huang

Tina’s YouTube channel offers a collection of self-help, informational, and inspirational videos for people who work in — or want to work in — coding and data science. Tina’s helpful content on how she’d learn to code if she could start over and nine ways to make money coding are laid out in ways that are easy to understand. If you’re deciding between software engineering and data science, watch her five key considerations to help you choose.

Aaron Jack

With 293K YouTube subscribers, software engineer Aaron has built an audience on his knowledge of algorithms, data structures, machine learning, and tech startups. He teaches his subscribers how to make money coding, explains API and Typescript, and discusses the difference between programming and coding. If you’re new to coding, be sure to check out this video on the five stages of learning to code

Jeremiah Peoples

Jeremiah is a self-taught software engineer who often uses humor in his videos. Follow him through a day in the life of a coding bootcamp student or hear about how to get started in coding. Among his impressive accomplishments, Jeremiah created a coding bootcamp to help others in the industry and sometimes interviews other software engineers to give his subscribers insight into real-world practice.

Curtis Holt

Curtis is living the dream of many of his 121K YouTube subscribers as a 3D artist and software developer. He shares educational and entertaining content on his projects, coding tutorials, and even topics like procrastination and dealing with imposter syndrome. Get started with his introduction to coding.

Mayuko Inoue

After working in Silicon Valley for six years, Mayuko became a full-time creator to share content about the technology industry, including career advice and lifestyle tips. She has an entire playlist dedicated to topics like how to get started in coding, coding in Python, debugging code, and what programming language you should use. Watch her two-part series on desk setups for software engineers for important considerations.

Sebastian Lague

More than 927K subscribers follow Sebastian on YouTube to learn how to “create stuff out of code” and better understand algorithms, computer memory, and how computers work. His detailed game development tutorials cover everything from writing code, vectors, and script communication. Looking for in-depth coverage of specific creations? Check out Sebastian’s “Coding Adventure” playlist for his game-idea generator, chess AI, and ant and slime simulations

YK Sugi

If you’re looking to learn about coding, join YK’s 1.82 million YouTube subscribers who tune in for his content on choosing a coding project, top programming languages, answering coding interview questions, and more. You can watch him build a real startup with Python and JavaScript, get debugging tips, or use dynamic programming to solve a real-world problem. He also has an entire series of tutorials for beginners.

Devon Crawford

Devon films himself self-learning software and electrical engineering through research and development. His 436K YouTube subscribers watch him coding a time-lapse plugin for Photoshop, a YouTube descriptions updater, and user authentication and security. Because editing his videos was a lengthy and boring process, Devon decided to try to write an algorithm to edit his videos for him.

Gyasi Linje

Gyasi isn’t afraid to tell his 124K YouTube subscribers about the good, the bad, and the funny of coding. He talks about his own experience learning to code, coding fatigue, and what he would do differently if he could learn to code all over again. To see what a realistic full day of coding and designing looks like, watch his two-part series on the subject.

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