Autodidactism

So many lains here are self-teaching, let's have a thread to talk about our experience and difficulties and seek/offer advice. What are you studying? What resources do you use? What is your purpose for studying so? What difficulties have you encountered? What do you recommend to other studying the same? Do you reach out to communities to aid you in your learning? Whatever you're learning, I want to know about it!

>>22707 >What are you studying? I primarily study programming. I focus much less on more general discrete mathematics and languages. >What resources do you use? When it comes to programming, so much of it is only available over the Internet, from scans of out-of-print books on FTP to rants on some WWW blog. I'm not exaggerating when I write that history has been rewritten, and someone who only reads what's currently available off the printing presses will have a veil over his eyes he can't even recognize. To use the common phrase, it's a rabbit hole. For mathematics and languages, I prefer traditional books. I'll be ordering some Latin books soon to resume my studies. >What is your purpose for studying so? I have no other purpose in life other than to educate myself and try to use my knowledge for something useful before my death. I've already had some success. >What difficulties have you encountered? There's myself, and the mess of the world. I'm dissatisfied with my lack of progress, from my perspective, and yet I'm doing so well when I compare myself to others. I resent the world is built around lying to most of the population. I've learned so much about the history of the world that wasn't even a sentence in any of my history classes, and I don't even focus on history. I went to university for a few years, but it was mostly a waste of time except for the language courses I took. >What do you recommend to other studying the same? I could link to some good websites, but I don't want to be obnoxious about it, so I'll only do so if explicitly asked. >Do you reach out to communities to aid you in your learning? I wouldn't really write so, no. I'm mostly alone in this. I'm someone others come to.

>>22707 >What are you studying? I study psychology in school, I study Chinese philosophy outside of school. I also am learning Latin. >What resources do you use? Library Genesis and Duolingo. >What is your purpose for studying so? Personal interest, to read ancient literature. >What difficulties have you encountered? Latin's grammar seems random at times. Lots of translations of the Chinese. >What do you recommend to other studying the same? Find someone who knows Latin. Speak Latin in normal conversations with them. As for the Chinese philosophy, practice is more important than theoretical knowledge. >Do you reach out to communities to aid you in your learning? No

>What are you studying? Mathematics >What resources do you use? Textbooks mostly. Sometimes print, usually digital. The best single resource I've found (in English) is the Springer Graduate Texts in Mathematics series. There is a torrent of it on the pirate bay. >What is your purpose for studying so? Good question. I suppose one aspect is that I'm pretty good at it(good enough that I could probably do original research some day). Another is that I get a profound satisfaction from it. >What do you recommend to other studying the same? Practice/study every day, no matter how discouraged you get. >>22816 >>22710 >Latin I highly recommend the Cambridge Latin series. I have not studied or practiced Latin since I was in school, so I don't remember much.

>>22707 >What are you studying? programming and political science of the anarchist and communist varieties >What resources do you use? hacker rank, youtube and old literature >What is your purpose for studying so? to escape capitalism >What difficulties have you encountered? thinking algorithmically is unnatural. old literature is really dense and difficult to understand >What do you recommend to other studying the same? don't be a pussy just do it any way you can >Do you reach out to communities to aid you in your learning? constantly

if you want to learn something on your own, you REALLY need to be reaching out to other people who know more than you do. you can study solo your whole life and easily go down a path of retarded piss. if you're king of the retards in your social circle, you need to add friends. surround yourself with people you can learn from.

>>22707 >What are you studying? Comptia trifecta certs (A+,net+,sec+,Linux) >What resources do you use? Pirated PDFs, YouTube videos >What is your purpose for studying so? Getting older now with no real job or any kind of direction. So using the advantage of covid to improve myself in tech. >What difficulties have you encountered? Myself. Maintaining a good sense of discipline is very difficult when trying to self study. Its very easy to just give up when your brain thinks its to hard. >What do you recommend to other studying the same? Practice practice practice. Try to apply what you learned on your own hardware as much as possible. >Do you reach out to communities to aid you in your learning? Mostly people on /g/ or on lain to help with concepts I'm not familiar with.

>>22707 I'm studying many things across time, but currently math, quantum mechanics, programming and philosophy. I mainly use pirated books as my resources, while also using some MOOCs if I find any interesting one and some youtube videos (mainly for insights or better understanding). My purpose is mainly to understand the world better. I feel that I could live my life without knowing all these stuff but then I can't because of my curiosity. The main problem I have encountered is that I feel like my motivation is drifting sometimes and then I haven't found a way to relax and reset my learning procedure. I think the most important thing is to try and take pleasure from your learning. This includes sharing what you know with others, applying your knowledge creatively and whole other ways. Also learning every day even for just 30 minutes seems to keep you in the flow and make it easier as time passes by.

>>22710 please link some good websites

>What are you studying? Russian, Classical Greek, Classical Chinese, Analysis. That is at the present moment. I continuously cycle and swap subjects. More on this below. >What resources do you use? books from libgen, some online resources (which are usually pure html documents), and occasionally youtube videos but mostly as motivators and for passive engagement. >What is your purpose for studying so? Learning. Some out of pure passion, like mathematics, others for maybe future profit, sometimes as aids for other subjects I'm interested in. >What difficulties have you encountered? Well, as I said, my focus is constsntly switching. One subject leads me to another and then another. I have tried to narrow down to a single subject or a handful thereof. But then I realize my brain gets tired of one single subject and desperately craves for something else. >What do you recommend to other studying the same? My solution to my little problem is to let it be. Not to fight the grain of my brain. As I cycle through subjects I always find my way back to the same subjects every time. Only now I've let things sink in and I can take it back where I left it. If I ever feel stressed about having to learn one thing I only resist it and in the end I neither learn that or the other thing that I am actually wanting to read instead. Now I let my motivation guide me. I have no problem being a 'master of none' because as I said there are a few subjects which are my main focus over the long term, while the others are ancillary. I try to satisfy my desire to learn in general, and not coerce it selectively. >Do you reach out to communities to aid you in your learning? Yes definitely, for motivation and when possible for critique and review, or for resources such as new titles or topics of interest/relevance. I find few thing as motivating as a community of people engaged in the subject.

>>23426 I'll link to two important articles from each of these personal websites, to give a proper taste of them: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284 http://www.loper-os.org/?p=300 http://verisimilitudes.net/2020-09-24 http://verisimilitudes.net/2018-06-06 This isn't his personal website, but Erik Naggum was known for posting insightful, and inflammatory, messages on Usenet, which are archived here: https://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3065048088243385@naggum.no.html https://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3163193555464012@naggum.no.html The following website is interesting for its discussion of computing concepts, although there's no real code here: https://ngnghm.github.io This is a defunct research institute, and others may find it interesting: http://www.vpri.org/work/ifnct.htm This is "No Stinking Loops", which focuses on array programming languages such as APL, and poking around could lead to some fun things here: http://nsl.com I could provide more, but this is a good enough list to start with for now.

>What are you studying? Philosophy, art, biology, C# >What resources do you use? Kind of stupid, but pirated pdfs based off of 4chan charts. Most topics can't be covered in one book and bets learned in a read this then this way. I also consult outside sources besides charts to make sure the book is good >What is your purpose for studying so? Wanna write a biopunk web comic one day and I'm trying to prepare for my CS degree >What difficulties have you encountered? Out of all self taught subjects Biology seems to have the smallest audience. Seems obvious, but I'll be having to take notes and study my books like another class. Finally breaking my web browsing activity and getting into a habit of reading. >What do you recommend to other studying the same? Youtube and the public internet doesn't cover a lot of subjects surprisingly. If you want to get good at a subject you'll have to go to textbooks and academics works at some points. Also if you find a community for your group that updates fast tread carefully. A fast update rate means the users post a lot which means the users spend more time on the forum than the hobby which means the forums full of LARPers dishing out meme advice. >Do you reach out to communities to aid you in your learning? Not yet. Some times I check coding groups, but I'm not at a high enough level I need help with a project. I'm thinking of giving up on art groups because long posting sites best for art critique are more STEM-y and all the sites artists are on make long critiques hard. I think I would join the critique group of a paid course though. As stated before no self taught biology community seems to exist and all other biology communities online seem to be the "I fuarrrking love science" crowd who treat it more like trivia thing.

>>22707 >What are you studying? Japanese. >What resources do you use? A few semesters of proper courses, that /int/ website, and a bunch of manga on paper for practice. >What is your purpose for studying so? Reading obscure manga and doujinshi that won't even get scanlated. >What difficulties have you encountered? There are so many fuarrrking kanji, it's a long grind. Japanese grammar is fairly easy to understand otherwise. >What do you recommend to other studying the same? As soon as possible, find a manga that you really enjoy, and start reading the new chapters before they are translated, with the help of a dictionary. This way you don't have the temptation of just reading the english version, and you can show off to other anons, which is motivating. >Do you reach out to communities to aid you in your learning? Nah, only to show off. Showing off is the greatest motivation in the world.

What do you guys use for Project Management? I've long observed that I'm so used to browsing Imageboards and checking YouTube that I actually don't know how to decide what I should do with my time. The process is basically: 1) Mindless browse IBs/YT (i.e. search for a dopamine hit) 2) Find something interesting (i.e. get my dopamine hit) 3) Watch it/Read it I've literally lost the ability to decide what to do with my time. I've made a list of projects and goals I'd like to succeed in but I make no small steps towards any of them. Fortunately, I did remember my intention to learn how to use Trello. If I could plot out what to do with my time for the rest of the week or perhaps even the whole month, I'd be alright. Because I start each day with no real plan, I never get anything done. I, not knowing what to do, just end up going back to IBs and YT again. So tell me, how do you guys structure your time? I'm a bit uncomfortable with Trello because it seems to be cloud-based. I was hoping for some client-based version (if it's Linux-only, this may be what gives me the final push to switch to Linux).

>>23894 if you're easily distracted by interesting stuff i'd recommend org-mode which is quite a rabbit hole in itself. learning to use and customize it is pretty rewarding and it might give you an idea of what kind of workflow actually suits you - most todo/management software does the opposite and tries to convince you that their way of working/getting things done is the best.

>>23894 I suggest you going offline for a few hours. Download all your books/references/docs and disable internet in system settings. The inconvenience of enabling it helps me to stay away from distractions when I need to get stuff done.

>>23894 Personally I time everything. If I'm on my own time I always note my start and end times for everything I do on my computer. At the end of the week I plot my times and the trend has been quite encouraging, the amount of productive time I've been spending has been (unsteadily) growing. Of course that only works if you can force yourself to sit down, write down the time and say "I'm going to start working now," but if you're just chasing dopamine maybe forcing yourself to do that will help.

>>23903 You also need the ability to write next to that "work begins" time something like: "9:40 - What's going on on Lainchan today?"

>>23894 Totally unhelpful sentence coming: I just do it. To be fair, I don't really "manage" my time. Usually I start the day thinking: today I want to ge through these things. A chapter from this book, a video from that series, and so on. I don't have a lack of things to be interested in, and during the first few hours of my day I usually get the topics that'll drive my quest for information for the rest of the day. It is most of the time my sole desire for learning something new that drives me to do things. Even though I have plenty of distractions, all day long, being interested in levelling up keeps me getting back on track. Of course I do need to acknowledge my level and the steps I need to take to understand something. If I want to be able to read a book on, say, particle physics, I need to know newtonian mechanics first, and before that I need to make sure I remember my calculus. I am so impatient that I just keep going through the topic to get it done as soon as possible; discipline is needed to remind me to do it well and not just skim it over, lest have to go back to it later due to a shaky foundation. The goals and the motivation are there, but how about the actual plan? Books. I read a chapter a day, or up to a set of excercises. I err on the passive side, following the book and doing the excercises. But what about software development, for example? Books still provide much of the motivation to try and implement what you've learned. And often one is reading such books because one has a project in mind. It's not hard to come up with something you would like to program, then you need to look for the set of books that'll provide the knowledge needed to implement it. For those for whom motivation is an issue, do you not have a burning desire to get better at things? To know more about some subject, or to make something cool? If competence is the issue, just remember there is a continuum of skill, and to get to a desired skill level, you have to cross the space between it and your current position. Time, and effort, are the investments necessary for that.

>>22710 link please anon Have you used Odin?

Any former autodidactics trying to become autodidactics again? I used to do math all the time, it was all I cared about. For the last 4 years or so I've been in a depressive slump, I stopped doing math, and now I'm trying to dig myself out. What I'm finding is that it's very hard to return to my autodidactic ways, I'm just so apathetic now. I've been considering finding some kind of online math class to take or at least follow along, and then try to return to true autodidactism later. Sort of like physical therapy, you have to relearn to walk before you can relearn to run. Anyway, what I'm wondering is, has anyone else here ever tried to return to autodidactism and found it difficult? Did you have to take it slowly?

>>24046 Man, I just read over this, and I sound pathetic. I know exactly what needs to be done and instead of doing it, I made a whiny post feigning confusion about what I should be doing. fuarrrk my life.

>>24047 nah bro a lot of us experience the exact same soykaf. we just gotta power thru

>>23949 See this post: >>23640 What's Odin?

>>22707 >What are you studying? A good number of topics under non-biological sciences and mathematics for college finals >What resources do you use? Mostly textbooks and topic-specific notes I find online along with formula books for memorization. >What is your purpose for studying so? To pass with a good grade (probably not gonna happen) >What difficulties have you encountered? I keep getting distracted and can't study even when finals are at bay >What do you recommend to other studying the same? Get rid of the internet connection day one. >Do you reach out to communities to aid you in your learning? Have found none helpful thus far

>What are you studying? Continental philosophy, reading Fichte right now >What resources do you use? 4chan /lit/ made a good reading list that comes up if you google '4chan //it/ philosophy reading guide' so I just started making my way through that january 1st, 2020 >What is your purpose for studying so? questions of perception have always been interesting to me since I was a kid. How do i know my dreams are fake and my awake life is real? if a tree falls and noones around etc...? Are we born with any innate knowledge/faculties? >What difficulties have you encountered? Its very complicated and slow. I must admit I sometimes have an ego and want the quick reward of finishing a book. I have to remember to go slow and actually grasp what im reading so i'm not a psued. >What do you recommend to other studying the same? Read Beiser for secondary literature. Very clear writing filled with tangible examples. >Do you reach out to communities to aid you in your learning? thats why I came back to lainchan. /lit/ is the best board for reading online. Also some twitter accts. I hope I come across people who study philosophy beyond politics/ethics but not yet.

>>24046 it may sound counter intuitive but do something active. Whenever I finish a long walk or a workout I always am very focused and can sit still for long periods of time. For me life is about balancing the mind and the body, or rather not viewing them as two separate things.

Kek, Datamining thread detected just kidding chummer >What are you studying? Russian grammar and proper writing, mechanics, welding, metallurgy. >What resources do you use? mostly youtube videos, forum entries, pirated pdf's on production standards and material composition, but also a few books. For Russian, a few soviet school books and my dad. >What is your purpose for studying so? For Russian: It is my mother tongue, and i want to not only speak, but also write it well. It can even get me some profit as translator. For all the others: I want to fix my stuff myself, and not rely on others to fix it. I have seen so many gruesome things that mechanics do, and often on purpose, that i do not trust anyone but myself and my father with fixing cars and other things. Also, knowing how to weld and fix cars can make a difference of several hundred euros where i live, so it is an immensely helpful skill to have. >What difficulties have you encountered? mainly the fact that some things take time, and i'm a very impatient person. I need to overcome my own impatience to accomplish meaningful goals. >What do you recommend to other studying the same? practice as much as possible. This goes for language as much as for fixing things. reading is important, but can only provide theory. Watching someone do it, can go a long way of teaching you what to do and what not to do. you also learn to analyze and recognize important moments by watching others work. But doing the thing yourself, you can get a feel for the tool, for your workpiece, for the language you write, for the equations you solve. motoric memory is not a joke, it is incredibly powerful. >Do you reach out to communities to aid you in your learning? Not directly, no. I have a father, who is entirely self-taught in the mechanic field, and always had excellent grades in russian in school. For welding, i had no one to go to, so i watched a few welding videos, analyzed the way the pros moved, how they paused, what to look out for, and what to avoid. So, i do use the knowledge of others, but i use already available resources.

>>22988 true communism has never been tried huh?

>>22816 >latin Very based but duolingo is viced spyware

>What are you studying? Formally through uni computer science, however I am self-studying, Quantitative Finance, Organizational Leadership and Individual Character Development, Emotional/Social Intelligence, Medicine (currently doing the AnKing Deck) and I'm learning Japanese, and just starting out with korean and russian >What resources do you use? Using Software like Anki, I liberally use Supermemo, Libgen/Army.milpubs (the publicly released unclassified stuff) and websites like nyaa.si >What is your purpose for studying so? to shape my identity into the best person I can become >What difficulties have you encountered? Being disciplined and consistant in using SRS >What do you recommend to other studying the same? Read Atomic Habits and Ultralearning >Do you reach out to communities to aid you in your learning? Yes, discord and subreddits in the domains of those topics

>>22707 >What are you studying? Biology, mainly cell biology, biochemistry, genetics, chemistry (with pain). >What resources do you use? Textbooks recommended by my university. >What is your purpose for studying so? Curing aging and reaching the stars to uncover mysteries of the universe. >What difficulties have you encountered? I lack a mentor - someone who would show me the way. I also lack the fundamental knowledge because I have never got any support from the teachers at school. I didn't even have biology or chemistry at school, despite that I got a really good exam result, almost all by myself. One of my problems is that I don't know what people think is important so I focus on different things than they require. This way I may be an expert but I still look like a lazy fuarrrk because I focus on noticing a general mechanism instead of memorizing table records. There's also the problem of drunk textbooks - some authors tend to overcomplicate simple things. >What do you recommend to other studying the same? A careful lecture of a university's website can guide you, there are textbook recommendations and even free materials. >Do you reach out to communities to aid you in your learning? Does lainchan count? You're my mental health support. >inb4 university is not self-teaching It is, the lectures are 20%, the rest is my own work.

>>27835 I'm the other Latin learner, and here is the thread which showed me the books I've been enjoying: >>>/lit/5105

>>22707 >What are you studying? Programming, music, 2D art, 3D art, philosophy >What resources do you use? I use different sites over the internet and occasionally books >What is your purpose for studying so? To kill time >What difficulties have you encountered? The most difficult aspect are personal questions. Shouting problems at the pirated art course doesn't get me very far. >Do you reach out to communities to aid you in your learning? I'll lurk discords and subreddits from time to time. I'll post on imageboards very infrequently.

>>22707 So many lains here are self-teaching, let's have a thread to talk about our experience and difficulties and seek/offer advice. What are you studying? Philosophy, History, Economics, and Political Science. What resources do you use? My books on kindle, libgen, and audible. What is your purpose for studying so? I enjoy learning more about those topics. What difficulties have you encountered? Procrastination, not fully understanding certain texts, figuring out what is the best thing to listen/read. Trying to understand broader concepts. What do you recommend to other studying the same? Any philosophy book from Princeton University. Do you reach out to communities to aid you in your learning? Sometimes I post on imageboards.

>biggest difficulty in learning something passion, if you don't actually care about it, it's going to be boring. solution to that is to create an environment where it is necessary to your survival. I try to learn French, I don't get far because I don't actually care, if I lived in a french country, doesn't matter if I care it is required to survive. also being surrounded by it helps too ofc. I don't care a lot about programming, I just think it is so important I must master it, so I surround myself with computer stuff. I am meh. but it's the best I can do. I do find robots incredibly awesome though,which is related to programming, so I could learn programming as I do my hobby of physically building bots. also practice obviously

>What are you studying? Math, I guess >What resources do you use? Books >What is your purpose for studying so? Personal interest >What difficulties have you encountered? I lack discipline and method. I jump from one subject to another. I can't seem to summon the endurance to work through a book. I procrastinate on the exercises or just skip them. >What do you recommend to other studying the same? If it seems worthwhile, do it. Though learning is fun, there is some need for hard work. As with anything, don't tax your memory, there's no use. Most importantly: always read with pen & paper at hand. >Do you reach out to communities to aid you in your learning? No. I would, but ost questions I can figure out on my own. I don't know of any worthwhile community either. I don't like reddit too much, and here on lainchan it's a surprisingly unpopular topic.

I'm fairly early in the journey of autodidactism, so all of this comes with the caveat that it's more of a plan that something that I've already consistently spent time doing and had success with. >What are you studying? Mathematics, computer {science,programming}, psychology, languages, linguistics but not really right now >What resources do you use? Springer {,under}graduate texts in mathematics is pretty high tier for most topics. If you end up getting into cutting edge mathematics, that probably comes with the territory. There are other good books for topics that you can find by looking through university reading lists. I think it's pretty easy to these evaluate books quickly, at least when the level is such that you're "meant" to be able to understand it (like it's not just the fact it assumes that you have knowledge that you don't). There's also MIT's opencourseware, they basically publish entire university courses that you can use. I'm watching the "introduction to psychology" lectures availabe as part of that, which I'd recommend a lot. I also have some knowledge from english classes at school (16yrs-18yrs) -- we studied language acquisition, and child developmental psychology as part of that. I should probably find the other parts of that course than just the lectures, but I'll get round to that. I don't really have any recommendations for language learning, though if you have a language you want to learn, I can dump pdfs for you. I can also endorse the book "ultralearning", as in >>27836. I've just downloaded the other one, hopefully that's good too. >What is your purpose for studying so? A few different reasons: Maths and computer science is interesting, and I want to learn about these things. Psychology is weird, it's harder to say why I want to learn about it, it just seems natural I guess? Progamming means you can get computers to do things. You can also expand your artistic capabilities in this way, for e.g. livecoding (I'll start a thread about this on /music/ at some point) It's also probably my route into employment, realistically. Language learning I have a darker relationship with. Things about my personality mean that it's hard to do the things that lead to effective language learning, especially when self-studying. However, there is a burning urgency to do this, like a pain that's only alleviated by proficiency in a language. I'm like an addict, except I don't really engage in the actual thing itself (at time of writing). Conversely, and luckily enough, it's an equivalent high when I actually do it. It's like wireheading. I understand that this is probably not a useful thing to say but it's important for me to show where I'm coming from when I talk about this. It's like I can only have a half-life if I don't learn languages. Right now I'm monolingual and have three I want to learn, though I have a working knowledge of one, and another where I'm just rusty really. >What difficulties have you encountered? It's hard to do stuff yourself, and getting into a community that does a certain thing is pretty hard. Open source stuff exists but it feels like most people aren't really invested in helping you, which is completely fair enough, but suboptimal. >What do you recommend to other studying the same? For maths, I'd recommend taking terry tao's advice: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/ For programming, I don't really know. I guess the advice should be "write a lot of code". Sometimes people don't realise that they're meant to read code as well, so you should do that too, if no one told you. As for language learning, you should learn something about language acquisition first. Understanding what the unconscious process of actually getting the language into your head involves means you can distinguish betreen useful and useless activities in advance, rather than after months where you're realising that any progress you make is despite, rather than because of said task. >Do you reach out to communities to aid you in your learning? No, but I probably should. It's kind of hard. If anyone has advice, please post :P

>>27836 >>29936 >Ultralearning Got it, skimmed it a bit, and it's kind of ironic how it advises to engage directly while still being a book about learning. This is why I never actually get to read these books, I would rather spend my time learning than learning about learning. I agree that the information in these pages is valuable, but again, they take the time I could use in learning the topics themselves. In the process, I also learn directly how I best learn by making mistakes and examining assumptions.

>>29939 Kind of the point is to get you off your arse as quickly as possible, which it did for me really. I didn't even finish the book.

>>27966 Well programming is ultimate art and science imo it's the perfect mix of creativity and logic

>>30014 r/programming/math/

>What are you studying? Mainly programming. Though I do learn some social sciences too. >What resources do you use? I use websites I find and resources that people in programming communities share. >What is your purpose for studying so? To understand the world and to be able to do something useful. I like acquiring knowledge too, as a form of entertainment. >What difficulties have you encountered? Mainly a lack of time caused by over-saturation. A lack of motivation has been a barrier to continuing too. >What do you recommend to other studying the same? Do not feel overwhelmed and reach others that are learning the same as you for help, they may know useful resources you do not. >Do you reach out to communities to aid you in your learning? Yes, I feel like it's quite important to do so.

>What are you studying? Computer Science >What resources do you use? picked this up off of /kind/: https://teachyourselfcs.com/ >What is your purpose for studying so? I've always loved computers. They're very cool machines with such great capabilities. Recently, I grew a disdain for how everything on the internet seemed to be owned by a handful of corporations. So I seeked the online underground to show me a way out. My plan is to learn enough about computers and join the fight to make the internet a better place for everyone. A non-exploitative, private, and enjoyable add-on to the human experience. >What difficulties have you encountered? Time management. It feels like some days I'm too busy to get some time to study in. But I manage for the most part. >What do you recommend to other studying the same? Have a purpose for your journey. Yeah computers are cool and all, but you've gotta give yourself a strong drive to want to work with them for hours. >Do you reach out to communities to aid you in your learning? Absolutely. You should never think that you must learn something on your own. I don't have any friends as interested as I am, but if you do, study together with them.

>>22707 > What are you studying? I never studied anything. I'm learning stuff. I'm learning as I go. Studying is for nerds.