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>Identify the knowledge you lack and seek out the most relevant resource That can be difficult on the Web. When learning electronics searching the Web for hel

>Identify the knowledge you lack and seek out the most relevant resource That can be difficult on the Web. When learning electronics searching the Web for help quickly showed how useless it is. There were many explanations but no teaching and often the explanation begun at a level too far past the level of the question asked. My guess is well over 95% of explanations I saw were just people posturing to show off their knowledge. Wordy explanations that went on for paragraphs never teaching just saying things. I craved brief answers that taught not explained. I know 2+2 = 4 but how do you know that how do I learn to know that!

bostik 9y ago
> When learning electronics searching the Web for help quickly showed how useless it is Not just electronics. When you're dealing with any kind of non-trivial problem, searching for help with sensible solutions from internet is an exercise in frustration and futility. The answers, when you find any, tend to be out of date, ill-informed or just flat out wrong. Often all three at the same time. Simply put: most of the technical information on the internet is written by helpful idiots.
joshvm 9y ago
Out of interest what did you feel was lacking about electronics information online? Personally, I've always been bothered by how scattered the information is. One site has amazing amounts of detail on one thing, but often you have to flick between forum threads, random repositories and blogs to solve problems.
- dghughes 9y ago
  It seemed like every site showed you the answer but not the steps to get to it which is useless. It seemed as though people were trying to help by giving the answer but just giving the answer isn't helping. The answer of one single problem is of no use. Another simple example imagine you want to know about multiplication say 5x5 but each example tells you the answer but not how to determine the answer. Knowing allows you to find any problem one example done for you does not. Sites like the stackexchange network were OK although quite a bit of posturing as I call it and verbose rambling answers. Or worse a good tutorial but closed for apparently no reason. I ended up at allaboutcircuits.com it was nicely laid out and with video tutorials. It supplemented what I was learning in class.
saimiam 9y ago
I really want to decipher this statement but I just can't wrap my head around it - > I know 2+2 = 4 but how do you know that how do I learn to know that! Did you miss some punctuation?
- dghughes 9y ago
  Poor analogy on my part I guess I wanted to use an example so simple it would be clear that seeing the result wasn't my goal knowing how to get to the result was what I wanted to know. Telling me the answer to a problem isn't helping me teaching me is helping me. The "give a man a fish he eats for a day but teach a man to fish he eats for life" philosophy.

bostik 9y ago

> When learning electronics searching the Web for help quickly showed how useless it is Not just electronics. When you're dealing with any kind of non-trivial problem, searching for help with sensible solutions from internet is an exercise in frustration and futility. The answers, when you find any, tend to be out of date, ill-informed or just flat out wrong. Often all three at the same time. Simply put: most of the technical information on the internet is written by helpful idiots.

joshvm 9y ago

Out of interest what did you feel was lacking about electronics information online? Personally, I've always been bothered by how scattered the information is. One site has amazing amounts of detail on one thing, but often you have to flick between forum threads, random repositories and blogs to solve problems.

dghughes 9y ago
It seemed like every site showed you the answer but not the steps to get to it which is useless. It seemed as though people were trying to help by giving the answer but just giving the answer isn't helping. The answer of one single problem is of no use. Another simple example imagine you want to know about multiplication say 5x5 but each example tells you the answer but not how to determine the answer. Knowing allows you to find any problem one example done for you does not. Sites like the stackexchange network were OK although quite a bit of posturing as I call it and verbose rambling answers. Or worse a good tutorial but closed for apparently no reason. I ended up at allaboutcircuits.com it was nicely laid out and with video tutorials. It supplemented what I was learning in class.

saimiam 9y ago

I really want to decipher this statement but I just can't wrap my head around it - > I know 2+2 = 4 but how do you know that how do I learn to know that! Did you miss some punctuation?

dghughes 9y ago
Poor analogy on my part I guess I wanted to use an example so simple it would be clear that seeing the result wasn't my goal knowing how to get to the result was what I wanted to know. Telling me the answer to a problem isn't helping me teaching me is helping me. The "give a man a fish he eats for a day but teach a man to fish he eats for life" philosophy.