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.
For comp sci and music I’ve found access to a teacher who can help create a plan to achieve your goals and office hours or similar once or twice a week to point you in the right direction when you get stuck is the most efficient but also the most expensive route. Next best is books and online tutorials but without a plan and direction it’s easy to waste time or get stuck on some concept or technique.
Programming: The internet in general. But not AI.
Hobbies: Books.
Canning I use things like the Ball website or things like the National Center for Home Food Preservation for safe recipes. A lot of…YouTube stuff is not safe, or use very outdated methods like canning in the oven or wax or just turning them upside down and back upright.
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?
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
I am in professional consultancy. You learn by fucking up, and try again just to fuck it up again (less intensely ).
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
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.
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.
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 son just graduated high school and wants to be an electrician. Any tips on getting in? Thanks!
Just apply! Availability is gonna depend on your local, I know mine has doubled its class size over the last few years. We’re in high demand and young folks have realized it. But if he can show up, pay attention, and piss clean im sure he’ll do fine.
Anything he can learn about basic electrical theory will definitely help, but its not strictly necessary. They’ll teach him everything he needs to know. Still, being familiar with stuff like Ohm’s Law wont hurt with the interview.
I believe the classes at my local start in September so it may take a while, but if he’s patient its worth it. The union benefits are amazing, he’ll be set for life and able to work pretty much anywhere he wants.
Meanwhile, if he can find a job as a helper he’ll get valuable experience. Won’t be a well-paying job, he’ll be doing a lot of grunt work (up to and including literal ditch-digging) but itll give him a view of life outside the union and appreciate the IBEW more with any luck. He’ll need some basic hand tools to start with (11-in-1 screwdriver, impact driver, lineman pliers, wire strippers, diagonal cutters, sharpie/pencil, razor knife and tape measure), but id suggest avoiding buying more power tools until he knows if hell be union or not. If he is, theyll provide them. If not, itll depend on his company. But a helper/apprentice shouldn’t worry about anything beyond a drill for a few years.
Hope that helps! Feel free to ask any other questions and ill do my best to answer. Ive been in the trade about a decade and im self-employed currently.
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.
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???
Old cookbooks from the beginning of the industrial revolution
Why specifically then?
Mostly Escoffier, it gets into more detail as you read more recent books like Julia Child or something, but to understand the profession best I think this is where the foundational knowledge is.
For aquarium fish keeping, YouTube (fishtube) was pretty good but it’s been getting worse because of all the ai sloptube. Probably a friend or local aquarium club is better if you can overcome any shyness.
For semihydroponic plant keeping YouTube is still okay except everyone is going to try to sell you specific brands of grow lights and fertilizers. We have a decent community here on Lemmy too.
Blog posts and the arch linux wiki lol
