in reply to I Don't Know What I Need To Know
I personally think that when you are learning something new, you should be trying to take everything apart. If you're learning about references, you should be asking about _WHY_ they're there, _WHEN_ to use them, and _WHAT_ are the advantages of using them. Then you could ask about the internal implementation, but you probably won't ask that for a while. It's usually a bad idea to try to learn everything in one swoop.
To be more general, when you are learning something, there are usually a lot of questions that come to mind, but you're either scared to ask them (because they may sound stupid) or you're dismissing them because you're trying to absorb the newer information coming in (of course there are other reasons, but I think these are the most prominent). To me, the more confidence you have in asking questions, the more likely you are to ask more as time goes by (duh, right?). Children are probably the best example with the: "What's this?" or "Why's that thing there?" type questions.
On the other hand, I'm in a similar situation. I've been studying C for some time. I know most of the basics, but now, I'm thinking to myself: "what next?" I know there's more to C than just the basics found in the introductory books. There's socket programming, building your own header files, building your own libraries (which is tied to header files), etc. There are a bunch of resources online that will teach you some of the more advanced C topics, but there are so many that sometimes finding a few good resources is like the proverbial "needle in the haystack." So, I think there's more to your question than "I don't know what to ask to learn what I need to know." There's also a need to find out what information has more immediate use to you, so that you can learn other things. You wouldn't try to understand objects before you understood all of the variable syntax in Perl (well, I hope not ^_~). You wouldn't try working on a car without any previous knowledge. Both examples require some prerequisite knowledge. Trying being as inquisitive as a child. I bet you'll learn a great deal.
Theodore Charles III
Network Administrator
Los Angeles Senior High
email->secon_kun@hotmail.com
perl -e "map{print++$_}split//,Mdbnr;"
To be more general, when you are learning something, there are usually a lot of questions that come to mind, but you're either scared to ask them (because they may sound stupid) or you're dismissing them because you're trying to absorb the newer information coming in (of course there are other reasons, but I think these are the most prominent). To me, the more confidence you have in asking questions, the more likely you are to ask more as time goes by (duh, right?). Children are probably the best example with the: "What's this?" or "Why's that thing there?" type questions.
On the other hand, I'm in a similar situation. I've been studying C for some time. I know most of the basics, but now, I'm thinking to myself: "what next?" I know there's more to C than just the basics found in the introductory books. There's socket programming, building your own header files, building your own libraries (which is tied to header files), etc. There are a bunch of resources online that will teach you some of the more advanced C topics, but there are so many that sometimes finding a few good resources is like the proverbial "needle in the haystack." So, I think there's more to your question than "I don't know what to ask to learn what I need to know." There's also a need to find out what information has more immediate use to you, so that you can learn other things. You wouldn't try to understand objects before you understood all of the variable syntax in Perl (well, I hope not ^_~). You wouldn't try working on a car without any previous knowledge. Both examples require some prerequisite knowledge. Trying being as inquisitive as a child. I bet you'll learn a great deal.
Theodore Charles III
Network Administrator
Los Angeles Senior High
email->secon_kun@hotmail.com
perl -e "map{print++$_}split//,Mdbnr;"
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Re: Re: I Don't Know What I Need To Know
by l2kashe (Deacon) on Jun 06, 2003 at 15:22 UTC |
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