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Re:Learning to Learn by dartharva on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @01:25AM (#41911455)
Say I want to learn web scraping. Now if I try to start, I see there are several layers of fundamentals and several potential paths, all of which seem equally important. Where do I start? What platform should I use? Should I start from the DOM and HTML parsing and go ahead from there, or should I start from learning Python libraries built for it as so many books and tutorials advise? Going one layer deeper, do I need to learn data structures before anything else? JavaScript and APIs? The fundamentals of TCP networking? Regex?

It's all too overwhelming at times.

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Re:Learning to Learn by eacapeisfutuile on Tuesday October 22, 2024 @01:36AM (#41911489)
Yeah, start from any point A. A suggestion is where you can progress in some way. Don’t make too many decisions. There’s so many viable ways to learn that, just start where it is natural for you. You don’t have to figure everything out or have answers to everything.
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