<story><title>Most of the time, you don’t really need another MOOC</title><url>https://eugeneyan.com/writing/you-dont-need-another-mooc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>compacct27</author><text>Anyone who&amp;#x27;s professionally coding right now has one super-effective option that&amp;#x27;s rarely talked about:
Hire someone knowledgeable to walk you through what you&amp;#x27;re learning.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been doing a heavy C++ project, and as a web developer, I was basically a walking footgun. I realized this early on, hired a total expert in the field (the guy has contributed to C++ standards committees before), and am Loving how smoothly this project is going thanks to learning from him. It&amp;#x27;s incredibly fun.&lt;p&gt;I pay the guy $150&amp;#x2F;hr in 10 hour chunks and get the most in-depth insight into what I&amp;#x27;m doing, how to revise my code, what the code means in the first place, etc. It&amp;#x27;s perfect if you know how to code but find yourself in a brand new domain. I still learn outside of our hour-long mentor sessions, of course.&lt;p&gt;Skip the MOOC, hire the teacher.&lt;p&gt;..and then also do the MOOC, honestly they&amp;#x27;re pretty great.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>UncleOxidant</author><text>&amp;gt; $150&amp;#x2F;hr in 10 hour chunks and get the most in-depth insight into what I&amp;#x27;m doing&lt;p&gt;Yeah, it&amp;#x27;s... an option, I guess, if you&amp;#x27;ve got the dough. Many of us don&amp;#x27;t have that kind of budget so we look for some of those experts who have blogs and youtube channels.</text></comment>
<story><title>Most of the time, you don’t really need another MOOC</title><url>https://eugeneyan.com/writing/you-dont-need-another-mooc/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>compacct27</author><text>Anyone who&amp;#x27;s professionally coding right now has one super-effective option that&amp;#x27;s rarely talked about:
Hire someone knowledgeable to walk you through what you&amp;#x27;re learning.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been doing a heavy C++ project, and as a web developer, I was basically a walking footgun. I realized this early on, hired a total expert in the field (the guy has contributed to C++ standards committees before), and am Loving how smoothly this project is going thanks to learning from him. It&amp;#x27;s incredibly fun.&lt;p&gt;I pay the guy $150&amp;#x2F;hr in 10 hour chunks and get the most in-depth insight into what I&amp;#x27;m doing, how to revise my code, what the code means in the first place, etc. It&amp;#x27;s perfect if you know how to code but find yourself in a brand new domain. I still learn outside of our hour-long mentor sessions, of course.&lt;p&gt;Skip the MOOC, hire the teacher.&lt;p&gt;..and then also do the MOOC, honestly they&amp;#x27;re pretty great.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>__mharrison__</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a reason why top performers in any industry (CEO&amp;#x27;s, athletes, actors) have coaches. I can explain to you how to ski all day long, but if I get you on a hill you will learn many times faster.&lt;p&gt;Coaching works (in programming contexts as well).</text></comment>