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I'm not self-taught (bachelors CS degree), but this is the first time I've seen somebody else mention this way of learning things. I basically do the same thin
by Ocerge 4y ago
I'm not self-taught (bachelors CS degree), but this is the first time I've seen somebody else mention this way of learning things. I basically do the same thing; skim lots of things and inefficiently modify code until I eventually get the whole picture. Do you feel like this keeps you from having deep knowledge about certain subjects? I always feel like I am _eventually_ pretty good at knowing how a project is supposed to function, but then I see people having deep random knowledge about compiler flags or frameworks or whatever and I go back to wondering if my knowledge-skimming keeps me from deeply understanding things.
- sph 4y ago> I see people having deep random knowledge about compiler flags or frameworks or whatever Why learn flags when we always have `man` close by? Do you know Tsoding? He's a live coder on YouTube that works like that. It's a bit maddening when he tries to look for some information and can't just stop and read instead of skimming and googling around, but on the other hand he's able to learn about a thing, and use a thing productively in minutes. That's our forte I guess. It's proved useful a lot in my career, when you're not given much context and you're asked for an answer to a pressing problem: "No, I don't know Elastic Search. What do you mean it is on fire, and I have to fix it? Ugh, sure, give me a few."