Haha, aside from your exposure your white balance just went super warm once you started talking about Nemo, is that a coincidence or does the world just get super sunny once you start talking about that beautiful Italian gift of a man? xD
Yeah, Travis! I'm excited for this! I'd LOVE to show your more things about video production! Let me know when and what you wanna know! I'm also excited to see more collabs with Dr Nemo or SarannaRotgard teach you about acting and presentation!
"End in Progress". As a teacher I will be using this phrase as often as needed for my struggling students in the future. I am excited to see what this direction brings. The learning process is a curious thing to watch in others. I hope that through watching your process I can bring more into the classroom. Thank you.
If you want to learn to code, I think your first step is going to be to define what that actually means to you. there are so many different types of coding. Do you want to make a website? Do you want to build a WiFi cat feeder that uses machine learning to make sure that your cat never gains weight? These are both months long projects if you're starting from scratch
Suggestion: As an educator, I had to learn VARK (visual, auditory, reading/writing, &kinesthetoc) The idea is that different students have different learning styles, so a lesson plan should make use of all four modalities. However, in my experience students more often seem to use different combinations of modality for different subjects. (also I think there are Way more than just those 4) I would like you to consider that in your learning, try to find as many different WAYS of learning the subject as you can .. [i.ei Learning music might include: Hearing and mimic sounds, learning to read musical notation, using an oscilloscope, or watching a layer of sand on a speaker, feeling vibrations, dancing, learning an instrument, reading about the history, using mathematical analysis, or many many more) My suggestion would be that you combine at least 2 or three learning styles for each subject and try not to reuse the same combinations. my short list of suggestions for learning styles you could choose from would be Visual-spatial auditory - aural verbal-linguistic physical - kinesthetic social or solitary (inter/intra personal) and Mathmatical - logical analysis (scientific) it would be really great to see someone actually DELIBERATLY experiencing the different WAYS we learn and the different ways that a modality might work for someonein one subject and not work for them in a different subject. consider how useful this might be for your viewers who will have different ways of learning, how discouraged they might become trying to learn in a modality that worked for you, and not realizing that it even makes a difference, also when are trying to learn something in a modality thhta is not working and yoru viewers can see how much more you struggle with a subject not because it is more difficult geereally but because of the modality you are learnig in . This could make even your failures a great benefit, especially if you then go back useing a different modality and are able to succeed much easier.
As to writing a novel in a month, look into NaNoWriMo -- the yearly challenge to write a novel during the month of November. There are lots of resources to help you with that. This sounds like a fascinating series, I'm glad you thought of it.
I'm learning how to batch and plan meals, in order to eat cheap, healthy, tasty meals without spending a lot of time. It's taking more than 30 days haha
On the subject of learning to code in thirty days: it is absolutely possible. The coding itself is really pretty easy nowadays, so long as you pick a beginner-friendly language (my advice would be to go with python). The rest of the field of computer science is mostly just on how to solve problems that come up using algorithms and data structures, etc. For a first personal project, it doesn't really matter that your program isn't optimally performant or even that the code is maintainable. Good luck!
In the beginning of this presentation you mentioned "...weird stuff with your camera..." And throughout the video, the auto-focus was...shall we say...very active. (I assume it is a Sony Alpha DSLR?) Then I thought... *_Brilliant!!_* The "new thing" will be the study of the effects of Subliminal stimuli! Subliminal messages, or auditory and visual signals below the absolute threshold level (ATL) of our conscious awareness. The word “subliminal” literally means “below threshold.” For some reason now, I want to go out and purchase a 2-Pocket Portfolio with "prongs". And I have no clue what a prong even is. *_Brilliant!!_* 🤑
"Not adding Misinformation to the world" is 100% my greatest fear with creating any kind of content. I've kind of gotten used to accepting like a 90% accuracy as long as the inaccuracies are not in any way significant enough to cause potential harm - in which case I just don't include it. I've also tried self-learning various subjects including - coding (in R), Swedish (rosetta stone and duo lingo), Data Science and Statistics (statistics by jim), marketing (I wrote kids books for a while), knitting (lost power for two weeks in high school so I taught myself with chop sticks), video editing (youtube), science communication (also fueled by my obsession with Alan Alda), asian cooking (zero frame of reference = less cognitive bias as to what SHOULD be), piano (used to play, have since forgotten).
I have been thinking a lot about this fascinating idea, always wanted to see a near real time progress with someone trying to achieve some goal. Hopefully it works out well for you man
This is a brilliant f’ing idea. I love it. I also love the autofocus going off all during the video when you were referencing your technical videography skills. Ha! lol. Weirdly one of the classes I took in college (actually in graduate program was ‘quantitative analysis and computer science’. The quantitative analysis was way beyond me. But I coded in Fortran (I mean literally wrote simple programs, punched each line on literal punch cards, handed them in at the ‘computer’ and picked the results up the next day. Day after day. It helped me appreciate software so much. Bought the first spreadsheet (Lotus 123) and it changed a LOT for me. Learning to code as an example of learning. I love it. Doesn’t matter how many views you get this month. The quality of the viewers will be a 10x factor.
As a computer science teacher who teaches elementary school students how to code, you will fail more than you succeed, and that is not only OK, it is part of the process. Failure is not the opposite of success, it is just a step along the way to the solution of your problem.
Maybe instead of a novel just shoot for a short story, 30-45 pages max. I think that’s a lot more reasonable in a month both time-wise and quality-wise. Plus there seems to be more easy to access resources for how to write a ‘good’ short story than that of a novel. And if you’re going for just progress instead of success, a short story is easier to see the inherent flaws in and forces the writer to really stick to the fundamentals as the ‘short’ constraint doesn’t leave the writer enough room to bog themselves down in a long, convoluted story so they have to be more particular and concise about word and phrase choice. There’s a reason that in college they only have you write short stories for the first year or two before tackling bigger potatoes. As always, great video idea! Can’t wait to see where it goes
Best way to learn coding, and anything else for that matter, is to code a game. Game development is the most multidisciplinary thing ever, because it requires a bit of knowledge in everything. Pick a moderately complex game project from scratch and finish it. :) After all, learning involves playing, and we've been developing games literally our whole childhood. Just not in a formal language... :)
i think if you are going to do experiments, i think it would be advantages to see the different speeds of learning through the different parts of memory, Semantic, Episodic, Procedural and Classical Conditioned. Semantic and Procedural memories are relatively straightforward to understand, but if you experimented with learning speeds with all 4 it could be interesting.
Just decided to renew my efforts for learning to lucid dream. Hopefully dream recollection could also be a good source of content for short story ideas.
I've made up two kinds of learning in my mind. The first being the cramming kind, where you can use spaced repetition, mapping in your mind or other techniques to quickly memorise the shallow part of something. And the second being when you spend so long immersed in something (getting familiar with it, sometimes getting deeply technical, training your intuition in ways that would be hard to spell out in words) that you can navigate it effortlessly. Since you're doing CompSci try not to Dunning-Kruger yourself, it's notorious for that.
This is such a cool idea! I'd love to see you try learning a language that uses a different alphabet than English (e.g. Korean, Russian, Arabic). My college let you earn your gen ed requirement in Math by taking Japanese. Their reasoning was that learning a new writing system is similar to learning math. I wonder if that's true!
Excellent idea! Good luck with the process! I have found that I have spent most of my life learning (graphic design, 3d modeling, sculpting, unwrapping, texturing, rigging, animation, Unity, (and soon to be unreal) programming, VR...) but I haven't spent nearly enough time refining any one of them. So as much as learning is important, practicing it to a practical state is also important I think...so once you find something you really like, practice that until you can create something really solid with it. A RU-vidr I follow that did a similar sort of thread was Wheezy Waiter, he does a lot of 'I worked out for 30 days and this is what happened...with a LOT of different topics...mostly self improvement, but I'd say that is another form of learning too. Could be an interesting format as reference perhaps if you haven't heard of him. Thanks for reading my Ted Talk! :)
This seems like a really interesting idea! As a university teacher, many courses I hold are not that much longer than a month, although often spread out a bit more as it is taught at 50% speed. I believe its possible to teach yourself the concepts of many tasks in a month, but that pause for reflection and for doing the practical work is not really there. Maybe consider going back to the subject again later, and see how you evolved naturally after you taught yourself the basics? Something like one month later and half a year later, and thereby getting one more video out of it :-)
Have fun! Coding happily has an abundance of free software and free learning tools. Project-based learning is always the way to go in my opinion. Personally coding is most interesting to me where it meets meatspace, e.g. Arduino projects. But that could be an unwelcome layer of complication if you've never fiddled with electronic bits. Coding spans such a huge space from web design to firmware to machine learning and on and on, so Step 0 is definitely deciding what area you want to venture into.
Great idea! For the programming language: I suggest Rust. It has a steep learning curve -- but -- many things are much easier once you get over that hurdle. As for coding: HTML5+JS is amazingly powerful.
That sounds like a fantastic plan!!! I would love to learn a little about lots of things but I just feel like there's too many things to learn and digging through the internet looking for reliable resources is anxiety-inducing. You would honestly really be helping me and probably lots of other people! If you're ever interested in learning about music or songwriting that's my specialty.
I am on a learning kick lately and trying not to overwhelm myself with all the stuff I wanna do. Trying to focus on both drawing and learning about music theory/song making. Just bouncing between those two specifically for the time being.
This sounds super neat! If you're interested in reading some modern scholarship on education and different approaches to it, I'd be more than happy to send some articles your way!
Man, what a great idea! I'm super interested in seeing how this works out. For a suggestion: Try and see how much Esperanto you can learn in a month :P
As a software developer, it's very hard to master a few branches simultaneously Rather, you're more likely to master one or two branches, maybe learn about more branches along the way, but primarily stick to one or two branches For example, I'm a web dev, so I know HTML, CSS (for the most part, i.e. not complex topics) and JavaScript
I've been taking a professional development class on learning design, which so far is much more practical and less theoretical than the level you're talking about, but I'm super curious how yours fits in.
This sounds very cool! I may or may not pursue the same topics you choose, and I will probably not post much (if at all), but I will definitely be following along.
Cool idea. I envy both your ambition and enthusiasm. Given your thoughtfulness I'm sure your analysis will be insightful regardless of the task and outcome. I realize you specifically mentioned choosing tasks that any audience member could also try. But, as a follow up, it could be interesting to try a physical skill (like fencing or rock climbing) after your experiment with computer science to compare and contrast the experience of a purely intellectual pursuit and one where "muscle memory" and coordination are involved. I assume you've already settled on a method for your CS adventure at this point. But I can never recommend Harvard's CS50 course through edX enough. Excellent foundation content for CS & can be tackled at your own pace. So should be well suited to your compressed schedule. P.S. worry less about your camera, the exposure was fine … or at least more than good enough for the task at hand. You might want to disable the auto-focus though and set the focus manually as having the focus hunt around as you moved actually was slightly distracting (though still not important).
Ooh! Good luck with your learning about computer science! I'm currently studying to become a high school CS teacher (there is a bad shortage of them in my country), so I'll be excited to, in turn, learn from your progress, and your mistakes!
I’ve always wanted to write a novel as well. It’s been percolating for years. Maybe when you do it, I’ll try it too! I’ve also always wanted to learn how to be a runner. I started looking at that before I saw this video and now I definitely want to commit! If you have any interest in learning how to read legal opinions, I recently graduated law school. I’d be happy to help! I always felt it would be beneficial for people to know.
I am a strong believer in exercise before learning periods. This is supported by the book Spark by John J Ratey. It just feels like my brain is better at everything after high intensity workouts.
I would so love to watch that content, I'm already subscribed to two channels doing this kind of learning challenge (they are wildly different from each other). Both of them start with a specific learning goal in mind, so definitely would be interesting to see what you come up with :) (even easier things can be fun, like using your non dominant hand for specific tasks) I personally love learning languages the most at the moment but it's kind of a long term process, I started out knowing I was gonna take a few years xD Also completely random side note, I got the two books you talked about in another video (Range and Late bloomers) and literally just finished Range like an hour ago and loved it, so thank you for that! On to the next one :P
I really like this idea! I think setting goals or questions you want answered (and also be able to explain in your own words) could be good for guiding what you want to do. You could even have different levels of achievement and see how many milestones you can hit in the 30 days. Whatever the case though I look forward to seeing what you come up with!
For the code you write, if you want us to follow along, please consider posting the code on GitHub or GitLab. Both allow people to fork your code and work on it in their own space. Side benefit: they can send you pull requests with improvements.
@@TravisGilbert YW. Some more info: this is how developers collaborate nowadays. You put up some code, it's available to anyone for download, and anyone with a free account can also fork it and send pull requests. It also uses git, a version control system, so that you don't only store the latest version of your code, but also all the steps in between. Every time you commit, your current snapshot will be pushed, and all snapshots are available so people can see what changed in each iteration. More advanced topics are things like figuring out where a bug was introduced (having the history and a known working version from the past helps), working in isolated branches so that you don't break the "known working" version on the main branch, etc... but that's probably a bit out of scope for the purpose of learning how to code. The only things you'll need to concern yourself with is committing your code and pushing your commits to github. In fact, there's no reason this could only be used for code. Anything purely text-based works well with git. With binary stuff, you run into the problem that the "diff", the "what has changed in this commit" in other words, isn't very useful. So probably not a very good option for a novel if it's in e.g. .doc or something similar, but if you use something like Markdown, TeX, HTML, ... and you want to keep track of the document's history, any version control system works great for that.
try learning about color. it's a physics problem thrown through a biological system and interpreted by a separate neurological system that confounds the eye's signals with language and a lot more. it gets really complicated, but gets there through small steps.
If you want to learn to program AND do some cool things with your site, there is just so much free content to learn about web development. Free code camp has some amazing tracks no matter which programming path you end going down though!
Math. I suck at it and I want to be better. Especially mental math. I don't have math anxiety or anything like that, I just never had good math teachers 🙄
I don't think it's possible for your old dell to not have *any* GPUs. That would make it twenty years old, and you'd be running windows 98 (or some amazing version or Arch Linux). - Programming, a logical literacy.
If you have a decent grasp on logic (which you do), learning to code is really not that big a deal. 30 days is totally reasonable. Don't expect to be an expert at the end of it, but you should be able to get a good grasp on the basic principles (flow control, types, I/O, and so on), express your ideas in a single language and learn to use its associated toolset (assuming you pick something reasonable, like Python or Ruby), and finish a small demo project, in that time.
