Could be a book, video, course, college program, etc etc.
Im very curious to see what is considered top of the line education for various different subjects.
I work in tech and the best resource for learning how to work in tech is to be asked the stupidest question you could ever fucking possibly imagine by somebody that makes 17 times your annual salary.
Are you me?
Idk, probably.
Programming: The internet in general. But not AI.
Hobbies: Books.
music, and the best resource is a microphone so you can record your practices and listen to them.
Hobby is modern boardgames.
Best resource is the review and tutorial videos from Shut Up & Sit Down (SUSD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5fM0cOxD2k
~~https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyRhIGDUKdIOw07Pd8pHxCw~~
Edit: Changed link from potatoes, to a review of Innovation. One of the best card games available.
Have you heard about what is happening to Steamforged games?
Nope
A good old money grab and run with licensed crowfunding board games. Probably to buy their new warmachine IP. No refunds anymore, no communication, all staff is gone and even the IP holders like Paradox Interactive or the press cant get a hold of them on questions
I’ve not played or seen their games.
Sounds like a real mess.
Oh it is! Tens of Millions of GBP stolen ^^
Time. No matter what you do, putting in the hours of practice gives you the experience and exposure needed to get better. Whether it’s art, music, tech, cooking, language, or whatever, there’s truly no substitute for spending time.
Beyond that I think it’s good to use a broad approach where you switch between variety of things like naive exploration, studying masters, theory education, etc. (It’s no good to just study music theory, for example, you need to also be learning existing songs and playing around with your instrument in an intuitive way. I think the same concept can be applied to many other skills )
100% most progress in learning i did is when I was struggling the most. After a while something clicks in your head. And the more you learn the faster you can learn, because theres already bunch of stuff your brain can compare with.
I wish I had known this earlier in life, I was pretty smart kid at school who got lazy quick as stuff got harder and then had really tough time as a freshman in university.
I am in professional consultancy. You learn by fucking up, and try again just to fuck it up again (less intensely ).
Apprenticeship.
Money.
For most construction related stuff: on the job with someone with 30+ years of experience. You can only learn it by doing it but it’s good to have someone telling what you should and should not do.
you won’t ever learning much of anything without real world experience.
reading books, videos, coursework, etc, will never give you experience.
for some reason people can’t seem to understand this, and our entire education system basically ignores this.
Electrician in NA, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) has an apprenticeship program which is generally considered excellent. I doubt youd find much better training.
My trade, bioinformatics/computational biology… a ton of software documentation, tutorials, guides, vignettes… And some programming books here-and-there (which the authors released online for free). There are Master’s programs, but realistically hands-on researchers overwhelmingly learn by doing. The field is just too small and scattered… The downside of this approach is that my field is traditionally criticized for having little to no adherence to software engineering best-practices
My hobby, there are like 2 websites (one is a dedicated webpage, one a GitHub wiki) that contain literally everything one needs to know about them
Knitting: it really helps to start with an actual human teacher, but people can self-teach themselves using YouTube only. After you get the basics down, YouTube is great for learning a stitch you’ve never seen before. And that’s pretty much all you need to start reading patterns. Anytime you come across something you don’t understand, YouTube to the rescue. There is also a great community site called Ravelry for pattern discovery, discussion, and yarn information.
My mother learned to knit when pregnant with twins and waddled into a local store and said ”Hello I need to learn to knit things for my babies" and so she did. She then taught us to knit when we were like 5. She also learned to crochet but decided to not teach us that???
I stuck with knitting for a very long time before even trying crochet, and it turns out the tension is completely different and I have a hard time with it. I can do it but it takes a lot more concentration. I also hold my yarn weird! I think it’s funny that everyone conflates the two crafts when they’re actually very different. But I get it. I couldn’t tell you the difference between two wood joining techniques.
Software, AI
For anyone wanting an actual answer, it depends - for game dev, there’s Godot and unreal game engines (and a whole bunch more, but these two are good to look into imo), and both have hundreds of videos, myriad of tutorials, examples and public projects galore.
For web stuff, there’s freeCodeCamp, they’ve been around for a long time and are great.
For more academic perspective, there’s stuff on edX, essentially Harvard and other universities putting their lectures online for free (you can “audit” for free on edX, pay for diploma or certificate or whatever), or if feeling like sleuthing there’s a whole bunch of other sites with materials and courses, but they tend to be a bit spread around.
There’s also Make (as in Makezine.com), wikihow, and the good ol’ poke at things and see what happens approaches - search for “best framework for X” where X is what you want to do, go to their documentation or site, and follow the quick starts or tutorials.
