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what is going on guys my name is hossein
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and this video I want to talk about my
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favorite methods of learning about back
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in engineering and software engineering
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and anything that has to do with
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programming and computer science and a
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lot of a lot of you asked me about this
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questions like where do you learn what
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books do you recommend so I want to take
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a few moments few minutes to discuss
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this and give you my opinion on how I
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learn best all right so before we start
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guys I started programming when I was 15
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years old or 16 years old
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my uncle gave me my first programming
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book and you gotta start seeing it on
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the on the B row right now it's called
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learn programming and Visual Basic - yes
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Visual Basic was my first programming
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language a lot of people like to on
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visual basic I know but I like it as a
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language it was very human readable one
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of the best readable languages in my
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opinion alright and yeah so it's not as
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popular these days but that was my first
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programming language and I and I have a
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habit to thank Microsoft to thank for it
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so yeah I learned this programming
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language and I I was I was writing
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countless applications that are just
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garbage they they're meaningless but it
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was really a good feeling when I
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finished that book three months later
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just where it was able to actually build
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my own application and then have it
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running and do my own style on the
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program which which is why I fall in
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love with the programming while fall in
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love with the computer science and why I
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went to computer science and all that
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stuff I was oh engineering so so that's
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my first book nice and since then I
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started coding in Visual Basic I started
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coding in many other languages as well
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you by NASA's like how do you learn do
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you just read books yeah I have a lot of
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books guys that I read but I personally
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I'm a very very very slow reader so if
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you give me a text or a book or a page
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or article it takes me without
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exaggerating it takes me three to four
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times than the average person to read as
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some anything right because I'm just
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slow reader I'm just slow reader so I
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don't like to read books or no library
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because I am
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I prefer other methods of consuming data
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and this has nothing to do with English
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being my second language right it's the
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same problem with Arabic I think I'm I'm
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a slow reader so you might came here and
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says oh this guy's gonna give us like a
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huge a lot of books to recommend and
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read I can give you some books that are
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I have some of them here there are
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really good books design patterns I read
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a lot of books really to be honest but
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most of them are now outdated or not
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really relevant especially in software
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engineering guys the more do you publish
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a book it's really goes out of date
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really quick right especially in tech
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right you cannot publish a book and
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technicals it really goes out of date
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really really quick because technology
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keeps evolving right and the moment you
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write anything about like HTTP you want
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to write a book read a book about HTTP
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you can but that will be like about HTTP
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1 and we learned so much after HTTP 1
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and we learned a lot of limitations so
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you'll be reading outdated material you
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will not see the full picture so that's
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my problem with reading books and and
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hasn't anything to do with books so what
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do I prefer in the state just personally
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right so what if I want to learn a piece
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of land a piece of new tech or a piece
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of new technology or a piece of new back
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and engineering right first of all how
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do I know what to learn
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first right that's why you have to keep
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an open mind and listen and listen and
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listen all the time right because people
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will tell you something you don't know
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and you want to capture those things
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that you don't know and you might say
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where do you know where do you learn
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them the things that you don't know my
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favorite learning method is born ESTs
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right software engineering daily is my
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favorite podcast change lock is another
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good podcast as well and just listen to
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these people right these people who are
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expert and say they came in here and I'm
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gonna talk about the problem of podcast
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in a minute but they came in here and
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they talk about the technology and they
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throw in words that you goes all over
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your head oh go LSM trees and bloom
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filters and they came in so I can talk
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about HTTP 3 and quick and then they
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talk about so many other things right
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and then this becomes really extremely
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overwhelming you cannot learn everything
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in a poetess you would what the goal of
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the podcast is to capture new things
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that is going on in the whole world
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right now ok and then you pick up this
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information obviously you don't know
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anything about these technologies now
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the second step is to go deep dive I
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want to learn about HTTP 2 what the heck
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is this thing right I go and search for
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you videos youtube videos yes I learn
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from YouTube videos most of the time so
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I see some talks right a lot of Google
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Google talks alright specifically right
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they talk about that and they talk about
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the tech and they talk about or what's
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the limitation and that's even that is
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gonna be a kaha level talking about the
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technology itself but that's the second
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level of learning you go with YouTube
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videos you to go that some videos and
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guys again this is just my process of
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learning you might be excellent in
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reading books you might be excellent
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reading articles so that's your approach
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in this case you just take advantage of
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this town that you have and were quickly
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reading you prefer
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to score Drina step so one of the best
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right so once I get an idea about the
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about the technology I try to actually
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explain it myself to to myself was like
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what is HTTP - well I try to explain it
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I am and then I find some problems
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because most of the videos I watch and
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most of the podcast I watch has
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limitation and problems most of them are
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biased most of them like 90% of them
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will be biased towards whatever they
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prefer so if you're learning about no
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sequel databases and you search no
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sequel databases you will be bombarded
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with advertisements and advertisements
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are paid by whom they are paid by the
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people who all know sequel databases
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they are paid by Mungo's DB's and
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casandra's and any other databases as
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well right that won't you want to push
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their technology on your face and when
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you go to their articles they're not
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gonna talk about their technology
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they're gonna say it's perfect and rosy
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and I hate that I don't like I don't
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like that right so how do you get the
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truth the source of truth you need the
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pros and cons of things right
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so that's some limitation of the YouTube
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videos of the Articles that that you
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read on on a specific technology so you
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need to find the unbiased tech articles
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and you got you all guys gonna laugh now
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my favorite thing after all I read all
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this thing I go to Wikipedia yes
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wikipedia is completely unbiased in
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everything if we're gonna read on
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Wikipedia all depends really on the
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article you're gonna get at home and an
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overview and you get a CC and some
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limitations some critique it's gonna
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compile everything for you and this
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quick thing so I read it quickly because
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the record videos articles not really
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big
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and now I have an idea oh okay this
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thing is not perfect right because
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nothing's perfect that doesn't always
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work obviously guys so what I do is you
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go there and you hope that you're gonna
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find something useful so you're gonna
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read about the stack and then you go
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scroll down all the way and then
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Wikipedia article there's something
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called references and those references
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are the key here you click on the
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references and start reading you start
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reading and you take your time because
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yeah that's the final solution for me
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reading right so if I read and I'm gonna
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take longer time to read obviously well
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that's absolutely fine I don't have a
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choice for this right so I'll start
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reading and reading about this and so
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there these articles are bite-sized and
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you can read through this right some of
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them are RFC's RFC's are really tough to
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read to be honest write a request for
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comments right so you really need to
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kind of focus and and and takes take
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your time to read right so it's gonna
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take me more time but best thing to read
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is actually the RFC's right because
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RFC's requests for comments is getting
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updated all the time and it's online
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thing so it will be updated it will be
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versioning and you can get a lot of
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information from there right whereas a
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book the more do you publish it is
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outdated right you cannot go back and
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update unless you do some additions
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right but yeah guys that's why my
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process of learning any new tech right i
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I learned from following people and
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listening to people podcast is my
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favorite thing youtube's my favorite
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thing right another way to learn is like
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following people on Twitter really it's
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like some people really smart people you
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know you don't want to follow people you
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don't want to follow people just tweet
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one time about something and 90% about
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technology and 99% of the time they
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tweet about their cats or God's sake III
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unfollow people like that right I don't
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really care I followed you for something
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I don't wanna I don't care about your
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cats right so some some people like that
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her badger is a good example which is
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the author of crawl curl C URL this guy
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if he tweets something it always has a
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value in it right so I like following
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that guy alright guys that's it for me
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today short video just talking about a
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preferred method of learning back in
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engineering it's you see my process of
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learning so what is your process guys
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how do you learn right every every one
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of us is different and I'd like to see
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how do you learn letting me know in the
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comment section below I gotta see you on
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the next one you guys stay awesome
