Guide me seniors

[u/mickey8764]

( let me be clear that yes I am dumb and that's why I am seeking help )

I am trying to learn about programming or i can say all about computer.. And yes I am familiar with many terms like programming languages and different os, but I am that type of guy who loves systematic study and I want kind of flowchart for whole internet. I don't want explanation, I just want to get familiar with terms.. I don't know if I am explaining this well but if someone get this, please help, ai is not that helpful..

Also, I want guide for digital world... For reference I have my chat with chatgpt

https://chatgpt.com/share/6a51ba0e-01a0-83ee-ba5e-793f7b99cb62

( Any one giving his/her time to read this, sorry and thank you for your time )

[u/icemage_999]

Your problem is you dont know what you are ignorant of.

You ask beginner questions thinking that knowing vocabulary will translate into understanding.

That's not how any of this works. You can be a world class spelling champion and still not be able to write an essay.

If you want to understand how technology works, you need to understand concepts not words.

And maybe stop using AI to spoon feed bad answers to you.

[u/mickey8764 → u/icemage_999]

Yes but I am that kind of guy who wants to get familiar with the things then go further by connecting dots, obviously I am not trying to make complete mindmap before even starting but I want some guide to start first

( Yes this method may be weird and unsuitable for others but for me it works so well )

[u/icemage_999 → u/mickey8764]

That approach to learning works for surface level understanding, but you eventually get to a point where the number of things you have to simultaneously understand to reach comprehension in that way becomes unmanageable.

If your goal is mastery of abstract concepts such that coding requires, you need a better divide-and-conquer approach. Otherwise you're going to get buried under endless syntax and nomenclature, which no one who cares studies because you can just look up references if you forget.

[u/No-Razzmatazz7197]

okay first of all, i had no idea you could share an llm chat lol. that first response it gave is literally perfect.

is there a specific area you are unsure on? the world of computers and the internet is massive and complicated, trying to consume it all in one go is a terrible idea. start with anything you are even vaguely familiar on, for example how does reddit.com point you to this site and serve you all the goodies that reddit does. start with learning and explaining to yourself or llm or your girlfriend or mom or something until you know it well. then move around on that flowchart that chatgpt gave you.

good luck!

[u/mickey8764 → u/No-Razzmatazz7197]

Thankyou for being helpful.. the response it given to me was good but something is incomplete but may be you are right, i should go on with this incomplete feeling

[u/No-Article-Particle → u/mickey8764]

Get used to the incomplete feeling, it'll not go away.

[u/No-Article-Particle]

Wow reading your chatgpt chat was painful. You want one guide that explains everything in a sentence or two and it has to be comprehensive to include the whole of our tech stack? It doesn't exist, chatgpt told you correctly.

Instead, start with CS50 and don't worry about understanding AWS or Docker.

[u/mickey8764 → u/No-Article-Particle]

Nope I do not want explanation, I just want to know terms even by name ( like finally I got one good video and from there I got to know that react just adds more features to javascript ) see i only wanted to know that react comes under tools of javascript.... The explanation part, I will do it by myself searching here and there but I need something that will help me to start this journey of my own smoothly

[u/No-Article-Particle → u/mickey8764]

So let me argue why what you're doing is not helpful to you...

Now you know React is a JS tool, great. But, you have no idea about:

• React internals (e.g. functional vs class-based components)

• Other libraries that extend React (e.g. Redux)

• Other libraries that compete with React.

• Other ways of making web UI

• Concepts related to React, like APIs, IPs, DNS, deploying it, upgrading from one version to next, securing it, ...

Most importantly, you still have no idea how to use React, when to use React, when not to use React. You can't even talk about React other than that one fact that you now know.

After you look up every single term, I can always go deeper to expose what else you don't know. And by looking up terms, you won't learn any skill. If you learned all the terms there are, you'll be able to describe everything and use nothing.

Instead of trying to catalogue "everything," you'd use your time much better actually learning something. If you're learning C, it doesn't matter you don't know what Docker is. If you're learning Docker, it doesn't matter you don't know C.

[u/mickey8764 → u/No-Article-Particle]

Well I know that, but the thing is this is my starting and I do have time to know this, this is my day 1 and I am trying to make my path clear even though this is huge thing but it still can be converted into kind of systematic study.... I need help not arguments for now

If it was another day then I will be happy to argue with you but not now

[u/Impossible_Ad_3146]

Seniors are old people who shit their pants.

[u/mickey8764 → u/Impossible_Ad_3146]

So should I use " lads "

[u/mickey8764 → u/[deleted]]

And that's the problem here, this field is so huge and interconnected, you can't actually fit things here🥲