How to Select Good Technical Content That Educates You

With many options online that support frameworks and concepts, people face a dizzying array of choices that may or may not teach useful concepts. Here’s how to know what to select that aids your education best.

Languages like R Programming require dedication to learn. Choosing the right education is essential for gaining the most of technology and associated programs.

Technical professionals usually follow sites such as DEV.to, DZone, Hackernoon, and Medium to learn the latest techniques on their software programming language or how to use a solution like an IDE. Many times, people are learning how to solve a specific problem.

But not all online resources are good educational choices. Some contribute to decisions leading to technical debt. Technical debt is a developer’s term for tradeoffs. It is a condition from a programmable project where a chosen solution fixes an immediate technical problem to support a budget requirement or deadline yet creates greater technical complications that later raise the overall total cost.

The educational direction you take influences your choice of software. You or your team may be choosing ideas or concepts that fix an immediate need, but then create complexity later. Planning rushed projects and supporting education sometimes inadvertently creates technical debt. But technical debt can be diminished if decisions incorporate the reasons why techniques and skills are being addressed. The result is a better organization of technical and business needs the project was meant to address.

To make those good choices that avoid bad technical debt, people are turning to various educational programs to build their skills and their knowledge. I will cover how and why your digital content impacts your ability to learn and consequently your stack choices.

The Limits to A Video Education

Most people have turned to online expecting it to be the future standard for education today. The pandemic has forced universities, high school, and elementary schools to adopt video and remote lesson building from home rather than the collaborative environment of being in a classroom or lecture hall.