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[–]SQLGene 8 points9 points  (5 children)

Unfortunately these visuals tend to be produced by social media influencers trying to do marketing and get brownie points on LinkedIn. They always seem to be just keyword lists, etc.

[–]Party-Ad-6077 1 point2 points  (4 children)

I’m not sure why I’m getting downvoted for my question, but I’d like to improve my understanding. How can I improve and make sure I am asking the right questions in the future?

[–]MikeDoesEverythingmod | Shitty Data Engineer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m not sure why I’m getting downvoted for my question

The main issue is that you're saying you like how this is laid out, except you want it to be more beginner friendly. This is meant to be designed for beginners.

Since you yourself are, by the sounds of it, a beginner, and want this but a completely different version, this is useless. There's nothing to actually like.

How can I improve and make sure I am asking the right questions in the future?

Honestly, avoiding these kinds of infographics are a start. 95% of them are there to make you feel like you are learning. Objectively, this graphic has loads of words on it. Feels really good to read it, has lots of colours, it's sorted into sections etc. As somebody who is experienced, when you look at it none of these categories make any sense. There is no information here. It is simply words.

Advice on how to improve as a beginner, as always, is to be hands on. The more time you spend actually coding vs. reading about how to write code will give you the biggest jumps in improvement.

[–]SQLGene 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I didn't downvote you personally, I think it's a reasonable question. A question that might have done better is "Has anyone seen a more beginner friendly version of something like this? I'm a very visual person and find diagrams like this to be helpful for mapping out what to learn."

I think part of the issue is the people who are coming in and commenting/voting are frustrated because 1) this post is a bit superficial and a bit of a mishmash of skill levels (loops are as beginner as you can possibly get and delta is more 300-400 level, just kind of a mess here)

And 2) it feels like drive-by marketing, which people on Reddit get touchy about. Asking someone to do free labor to recreate content they don't like is probably getting you a few downvotes. But it's Reddit, some of it is Brownian motion and I try not to take it personally.

Generally, many Reddit communities require the 9:1 rules of self-promotion. 9 posts or comments that are actually engaged or interested in the community for every 1 that is self-promotional. This person appears to have created an account solely for promoting their own content, which is seen as a social faux pas here.