{"id":8913,"date":"2017-08-25T04:46:20","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T12:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/25\/news-2686\/"},"modified":"2017-08-25T04:46:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T12:46:20","slug":"news-2686","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/25\/news-2686\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn Anything Is a Graphical Search Engine to Tame the Online Learning Jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/599e1800a43ee92a8778313a\/lede\/1503534813266-Screen-Shot-2017-08-23-at-53312-PM.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Michael Byrne| Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 12:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to overstate the vastness and confusion of the online learning ecosystem circa 2017. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a realm that extends from online mirrors of university classes and even whole degree programs to niche tutorial subscriptions like Angular University to pioneers like Coursera. As someone who&#8217;s done it, just approaching the Google search bar with a topic of interest is unlikely to yield a tutorial or course or program that&#8217;s really ideal for the learner. There are too many variables: time commitment, workload, cost, interactivity, length, skill-level, prestige, certification (if any). And this is on top of all of the usual confounding search engine noise.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the problem when it comes to programming and development skills is that there are many skills subsets (or stacks) and to newcomers it&#8217;s not always clear how to gain those skills in an optimal way. It&#8217;s actually really easy to find an extremely suboptimal learning path, by, say, trying to muddle through a course out of your depth or by focusing on a skill that&#8217;s heading for obsolescence. <\/p>\n<div data-iframely-id=\"1TsmP9n\" class=\"article__embed article__embed--iframely\">\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.2493%;\" data-iframely-smart-iframe=\"true\"><iframe  src= width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Surely there are busloads of would-be programmers that have just been turned off by the messiness of the whole thing: programming languages, transpiled programming languages, transpilers, programming language frameworks, web frameworks, HTML, compiled HTML, CSS, SASS, APIs, Amazon Web Services, containers services, reactive programming, functional programming, imperative programming, object-oriented programming, WebStorm, Atom, Sublime Text, Vim, and on and on and on. I could try and tell you a right way of navigating all of the skill trees involved in web development (or other sorts of development), but even if I came up with an optimal learning path, this stuff is changing all the time. <\/p>\n<p>Enter <a href=\"https:\/\/learn-anything.xyz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Learn Anything<\/a>. It&#8217;s kind of a search engine. The basic idea is that you punch in a skillset you&#8217;d like to learn and it will return not a Google-like list of results, but a skill tree offering a clear way of navigating an optimized learning path. Included with that tree are links to curated learning resources. The content is all open-source and open to contributors, whose participation seems pretty neccessary to keeping Learn Anything useful. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/kzzn8x\/learn-anything-is-a-graphical-search-engine-to-tame-the-online-learning-jungle\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/rss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/video-images.vice.com\/articles\/599e1800a43ee92a8778313a\/lede\/1503534813266-Screen-Shot-2017-08-23-at-53312-PM.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit to Author: Michael Byrne| Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 12:00:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There have never been so many online learning resources, but that has a downside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10643,13328,10378],"tags":[14085,14086,13562,12080],"class_list":["post-8913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent","category-motherboard","category-security","tag-computer-science","tag-learn-anything","tag-programming","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}