bit different than my usual tutorial style videos because instead of teaching

you a specific topic i'm going to teach you how to learn about any topic that

you're interested in these are the steps that I personally use as well as many

people that I know use in order to learn new technologies frameworks or languages

and it works incredibly well for me and hopefully will work well for you also so

without any further adieu let's get started the first step that you need to

take is to actually research the topic that you want to learn this can be done

through articles podcasts or video format but I prefer to use videos and

podcasts because I can actually speed up the audio quicker than if I was reading

an article for example because I can listen much quicker than I can read and

also these videos and podcasts and articles should not be tutorial based

they should be purely informational so that you can learn about what this

technology is why you should use it and a little bit about how it works

but not really how you should implement it the goal of this research is so that

by the time you're done with the research you can explain what this

concept or technology or language or framework is to someone in a way that

would make them understand it and so that means that you actually have a

fairly deep understanding of what the idea is even if you don't know how to

use this idea another goal of this research is that by the end of it you

should have a pretty solid understanding of the pros and cons of using this

certain language or topic or framework and also you should know of any

libraries or frameworks that are popular and helpful in using this actual

language so for nodejs a very popular framework is expressed so you should

know about the existence of this framework so you can possibly learn it

later in your learning experience for learning nodejs

the next thing you're going to want to do is actually start to learn about how

you can use this sort of topic and how it works and to do that you need to go

in and read the documentation but you don't need to go into the nitty-gritty

of the documentation almost every language framework or topic has a

getting started or introduction section in their documentation that you should

familiarize yourself with so that you can read through it and have a basic

understanding of how you would set up a prod

of this magnitude you may also want to read documentation on how to install

anything that you need installed on your computer in order to start working with

this language or framework and the entire idea of learning about how to set

up an application and so that you can do part 3 which is to create a hello world

application now depending on what you're learning this hello world application

may be a bit different but in general a hello world application is just a very

small application the smallest size possible that allows you to use this

language or framework so for a node.js application this would essentially just

be a server that you create that prints out something to the screen usually the

text hello world is what people like to use when creating this first hello world

style application this shouldn't be a very hard task to do but as you run into

problems you can Google tutorials or instructional videos or anything like

that look through the documentation in order

to figure out how to get past these roadblocks that you encountered in your

learning process this idea of the hello world application is to get you just the

basic understanding of how to get something working and then that way you

can add on to it without having extra problems of trying to get it working and

adding on to it at the same exact time the fourth thing that you need to do is

to actually build a small application around this idea so for node.js you

would build a very small node.js application it is also really important

that you make sure that this small application includes nothing else that's

new to you other than what you're trying to learn if you're trying to learn

node.js for example don't try to throw in a bunch of extra things such as a

react framework on the front end of this small application if you don't already

know react and even if you do know react you probably don't need it for this

small application that you're building since the emphasis is on learning

node.js so anything else that's not related to what you're trying to learn

keep to an absolute minimum and spend the least amount of time that you can on

it in order to build this application and one last thing about this fourth

step of building a small application is don't skip the hello world application

you may think that well this small application is really not too much

bigger than a hello world and hello worlds are boring so I'm just gonna skip

that but please don't do that the hello world application really helps

you get started and figure out how to actually use this technology in the

smallest way possible which in the long run will say

you so much more time than you spend actually working on that HelloWorld

application because in reality the HelloWorld application

shouldn't take you very long so you're really not wasting much time but you're

learning so much in that small amount of time the next step is going to be

dependent on what you're learning but then is to create another small

application and possibly even the exact same small application but to use some

popular frameworks or libraries inside of that application so for node.js for

example Express is one of the most popular frameworks that you can be using

for a node.js application and almost nobody creates node.js applications

without some form of framework to help make it easier so in this fifth step it

would be to take that small application you already built or build another

similar small application but use that framework or libraries such as Express

to help make your learning process easier and the building of the

application easier this will help you understand a more real-world sense of

how this technology works since instead of just using basic node which almost no

one does for building a web application you'll be building it with Express which

is extremely popular and tons of people in cross all different industries will

be using Express and note together this will also allow you to see the pros and

cons of this actual framework because if you're building a very similar or the

same application you'll see where it's easier and where it's harder with using

that framework and it's important to make sure you do this framework part

after you've actually built the original application because you don't want to

try to learn a framework and the topic that you're trying to learn at the same

time because it'll just make your learning experience much harder than it

needs to be and now we're at the final step which is to build the application

that you wanted to learn this topic for in the first place so for example if

you're learning node GS maybe you wanted to learn nodejs

because you wanted to create a new API for some kind of application that you're

running so now you can go ahead and build that API using node.js which you

just learned it'll be a difficult task because while you don't have a ton of

experience with this new topic that you learned you're going to run into a lot

of roadblocks and during this last step you're going to be referencing lots of

articles and tutorials for the many different robots that you run into

I also recommend on those smaller applications that you build to

constantly reference different documentation into

tutorials on the things that you get stuck on because you are going to get

stuck on tons of things so having those resources available will help make you

go through roadblocks so much quicker just make sure that you're not just

following tutorial for the entire application you want to build as much of

these applications by yourself so that you can actually go through the learning

process and thinking process and problem-solving process on your own

without relying on someone else doing the work for you that's why I only use

the tutorials when I get stuck on something and I can use them to break

through whatever roadblock I'm encountering

also if you are learning the technology but don't have an idea for an end goal

project that you want to learn it for just create any application that's a

little bit bigger than a small application and maybe incorporates a few

extra things that you wouldn't incorporate in the small application for

example maybe a database or react front-end to an application if you're

learning nodejs on the back end this will allow you to see how the different

parts interact together and give you a better understanding of how to use what

you're trying to learn overall and that's really all it takes to learn a

new topic by the time you finish building this medium-sized or larger

application you're going to have a fairly solid understanding of this topic

and be able to use it in future projects with no problem I would recommend though

in your learning process to spend more times in the first few steps of

researching and reading documentation because having a strong understanding of

what you're actually learning before you try to start learning it and

implementing it will make the implementation process so much easier

and make it easier to figure out where you should be using this technology as

opposed to other technologies in place of it so I really hope you guys learned

something in this video about how you can actually apply different techniques

to learn new topics quicker and more efficiently if you guys enjoyed the

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