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Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? by baq on Saturday March 25, 2023 @05:20AM (#35300924)
This absolutely isn’t how humans learn. Humans learn by doing. Once you grasp the basics, you can read some documentation. Otherwise there’s not enough ground for the docs to make sense.

Once you’re comfortable with the basics by all means read the table of contents to know what you don’t know. I recommend this especially when dealing with databases, it’s amazing how many people never advance past the apprenticeship part of learning software engineering.

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Re:Ask HN: How are you using GPT to be productive? by orbital-decay on Saturday March 25, 2023 @06:47AM (#35301365)
> This absolutely isn’t how humans learn. Humans learn by doing.

That depends on both the subject and the person. Some learn better by understanding the fundamentals first. Some subjects (in CS/SE as well) might not even be approachable without it.

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