I am an absolute beginner to Fusion 360 and am currently going through the official tutorials. Unfortunately, I am finding the series by Jamie Billing to be wildly frustrating, as he talks a mile a minute as if he is teaching someone who already knows how to do what he is teaching. The only way I am able to get through his tutorials is to set the playback speed to .5, but even that can be too fast sometimes when things get more complicated. The greatest issue is switching my attention between watching the video to Fusion 360. 99% of the time, when I finish doing whatever he says to do, he is already a half-dozen steps ahead of where I currently am, and I have to rewind the video. Every. Single. Step. I'm not ready to give up, but it is an insanely frustrating way to learn, and it is clear that Jamie wasn't taught how to teach neophytes. (This is not a condemnation of him or his obviously extensive knowledge & skills, just an observation. In reality, Autodesk should have everyone who they place in the role of teachers take a course on how to teach, which is not as commonly known or as easy as you might think.)
I understand that redoing the tutorials simply wouldn't be practical, but I had a thought about how to use the current source material MUCH easier and more convenient to use, not just for Fusion 360, but for ALL current and future tutorials. What would need to happen is for someone to go back through the videos and chop them into sections based on topics, and then those sections into segments based on individual, separate, highly specific actions. (Basically, every single time that the user interacts with the software should be made a separate segment.) The controls should be simple; for example, up arrow to toggle between working with sections and segments, left/right arrows to move between sections/segments, down arrow to replay the current section/segment from the beginning, and space or control to pause. (An iOS/Android app acting as a controller (like YouTube's 'pairing' feature) would be very handy for this.) The behaviours for each video should be checkboxes to A) pause/not pause at the end of each segment, B) pause/not pause at the end of each section, and C) loop each segment after a short pause (of selectable length. In essence, it would turn this: "dothisandthendothisdothatdothatclickthisclickthat" (...which is how it currently feels) into "<section>dothisandthen<break>dothis<break>dothat<break>dothat<break>dothat<break>clickthat</section>".
What this relatively simple-to-implement technology would accomplish is to truly allow students to easily learn at their own pace, only moving on when they are ready to. It wouldn't even need someone who necessarily understands the technology to make the edits, though probably someone who does should define the sections.
