Julia Evans on Nostr: was chatting with a friend about some of the challenges with teaching yourself ...

was chatting with a friend about some of the challenges with teaching yourself programming topics:

* you have random gaps that you don’t even know about
* it's hard to assess your level, you might know a lot about one subtopic and be a total beginner elsewhere
* it's very difficult to guess what other fellow autodidacts know about the subject

I've had to learn how to suss out what shared knowledge base I have with another programmer on any given topic quickly so that we can talk