That's not how I would approach the problem of learning emacs. I'd choose something I want to get more efficient at (managing notes, dealing with broken compila

That's not how I would approach the problem of learning emacs. I'd choose something I want to get more efficient at (managing notes, dealing with broken compilationsm finding files, editing Java files, etc) and research packages for that. Once you find a package, pick a couple commands to learn, tape them to your monitor, use them until they are wired, pick a couple more, rinse and repeat. In all circumstances, make sure you know how to use all the various help tools and make sure you know enough elisp to do some basic configuration.