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Different Approaches to Learning – Where/How Do You Get Your Information?
Paul: "I use various learning tools , but usually start with a quick google (insert search engine of your choice !) on some terms that I am looking for. This might lead me to a forum, or a podcast, or an article or a video how to or a blog or whatever. From there I may then follow other links to get what I need. I also subscribe to local technical mail lists which can also be very useful for sounding out problems and getting a reasonably quick response.
I work from home a lot of the time and live in an small town with a virtually non-existent technical community and the main learning ‘tool’ that I miss is being in a workplace with other people that you can bounce problems and ideas off. I’ve recently been learning .NET, C# and an ORM tool all at the same time from scratch and not having an immediate colleague to get guidance from has been a bit of a drag. OK, you can ask questions on forums, but it’s not the same. The next project that is (hopefully) in the pipeline, I have lined up a collaboration with a company that have years of experience in .NET, so they will act as my surrogate work colleagues and I’m sure I will learn a lot more in a much shorter space of time."
Rich: "I look for multiple help sources; but I miss the concise, well thought-out UNIX man page. Yes, nroff/troff was a royal pain to use to format the man page; but the Richard Stahlman did the community a huge disservice with his campaign to replace nroff/troff with infotext especially with the style promulgated with the emacs help. I don’t wish to navigate umpteen hyperlinks to find out how to turn off the help system.
Modern http authoring tools have surpassed both nroff/troff and infotext with the ease of quality page layout; but they don’t address the fundamental problem of encouraging concise summarization of the most important funtions or features of a program. On the contrary, they encourage a sort of keyboard drooling which includes irrelevant graphics and hyperlinks simply because such "cuteness" is easy to do."
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