By what methods and mediums do you learn new technologies?

[johnstonmatt]

When learning Polymer I keep coming back to polycasts because learning by watching (well produced) videos is very easy for me. Video ressources are of course more rare than other forms of media, how do you like to learn?

[notwaldorf]

Oh, that's a great question! I am a very impatient person and I get distracted very easily, so I find videos don't work for me very often (I end up wanting to skip ahead half of the time, and that I switch to a different tab and then miss what's being shown on the screen). So at least for that, I usually try to find the written equivalent instead (blog post, tutorial).

I'm also a bad "abstract" learner -- almost always if I want to learn about X, I have to make a silly pet project that uses X. That way I at least have very targeted goals: how do I load X on the page, how do I make a button show up, how do I handle events, etc. And then it's just a bunch of googling from there 😊