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Google Colab is amazing for speeding through these early roadblocks. Controversial opinion but a beginner’s goal should be accomplishing a task - not learning a

Google Colab is amazing for speeding through these early roadblocks. Controversial opinion but a beginner’s goal should be accomplishing a task - not learning about software development. A few wins later, they’re going to run into some friction and that’s when you can teach them about the standard to write code. Most importantly, they’ll understand the underlying “why” at this point.

samstave 6y ago
>* beginner’s goal should be accomplishing a task* Yup - I learned Photoshop in the mid 1990s because I was given a task to make some marketing material for the architecture firm I worked for... and they paid hourly for me to go to the Kinkos near the office as they had workstations with Photoshop on them. If you have a goal/task that you need to create then you will learn faster. You can't just sit down in front of a piece of software, such as Autocad or Photoshop and "learn" it unless you have a goal... There is a bad-ass piece of software called "Bartender" By Seagull Scientific and its used extensively in the cannabis industry to make labels - I love that software and I had to learn how to use it as I needed to design and print Cannabis labels...