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I'm going to court controversy and say that I think this would be better as a vlog or something rather than streaming.
The problem with streaming is people will be picking up and at random points and there will be little hope of actually understanding what you're intending to do.
If you are absolutely determined to stream though you need to have an outline of what you're doing at the time, a set of bullet points explaining which methods / files / projects / solutions you're working on and why, either in the description or visible somewhere to allow people to get an idea of what you're doing.
Personally I'd quite like to see a detailed run down, as I think you should never put hands to keyboard without a good plan, write that plan down in easy to follow steps, outlining what you're working on, including the names of functions and what you intend to do with them.
It's hassle, but its good practice for one, and secondly it would make it possible to follow what you're doing, especially if you could cross things off as you did them.
Next, as mentioned is commentary. Some comments giving an indication of thought processes and a brief chat about what you're doing.
I still think a structured vlog would be better, however I understand that takes a considerable amount of time to edit / sharpen up so I suppose I understand how streaming might be a way around that, but I still think that it's not a very good medium for sharing programming.
Good luck though, if people are interested it should pan out 
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I agree with the vlog idea. That would help a lot more, and I would be able to see it on my own time as supposed to whenever you decide to stream.
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I'd love a stream like this. I'm studying CS and my C++ classes taught me the very basics of programming but didn't touch the "real" C++. Watching someone code might give me a lesson my uni would never give me!
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I think it is just really useless and quite boring if you just stream yourself coding with only music in the background.
Consider getting a mic and interacting with stream viewers commentating your train of thought, what you are doing at the moment, what problems you are facing, how you solved/plan to solve them and give general programming tips like good practices and stuff.
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Alright I'm trying this with a mic! Lets see how it goes
I tried adding a short task list type of thing going on here. If this ends up making any sense I'll try doing some more in the near future. If not I'll consider doing a vlog type of thing and upload the videos to youtube.
I'll be working on some prelim stuff in order to get back to the physics engine tonight!
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Hey, a cool idea of yours!
If I may propose two feedbacks:
1) To your stream: Your mic is only on my left speaker which annoys me after a while.
2) To your programming style: I strongly dislike reading exclamation mark in error messages. It is stressfull if you have a bug that you just cannot find and you have to read the same error message again and again. But is is even more stressfull when that same message screams at you. Always feels like you could call gsub("!", ", idiot!") on that error message 
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Yeah my computer crashed and I don't want to set up all the stuff again. I'll wait to stream more once I have a nicer mic 
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No voting option for me 
Definitely interested in watching a programmer stream, but it would have to:
1. Be a language I'm interested in using atm, more or less C# right now. C++ is not my cup of tea.
2. Be a streamer who is really good at it, because I'm a programmer myself and would be looking for advice, best practice and inspiration... A high school student who just learned to code etc wouldn't be interesting at all, someone with several years of experience in the area though, bring it on.
3. Obviously be a project I'm sort of interested in. Games certainly work fine in this regard.
So yeah, I would be pretty picky. Then again, I'm picky with all my streamers, I only watch streamers who are good, specifically stream a game I'm interested in, and comment on what they do a lot.
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Hey, caught the vod of your most recent one. Cool stuff dude. I'm trying to teach myself c++ (for the 25th time now) and it's interesting to see someone actually writing stuff out. Your mic was a bit too low compared to the music, but that's all; everything else was nice.
Would watch more.
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Just started up the recent video and noticed a huge problem: mic is only mono and panned purely to the left. This is a HUGE problem for people like me who use headphones. It's headache inducing almost immediately.
Other than that, I'm liking it.
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