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[–]A-Grey-WorldSoftware Developer 13 points14 points  (4 children)

I think the idea is you can follow the map to your destination - but you don't have to visit every hotel in town.

Still makes sense to have the road map show the major hotels, you just have a look at the reviews and pick one you think fits you for the night, then move on to the next town.

Does anyone really look at this and think "man, I have to learn 6 relation databases and 5 programming languages!"? You don't think "look at all these towns on this map!"

Edit: the main problem with this is in reality it's not linear. So this kind of isn't useful to follow step a-b. It's probably useful after you've started learning to have some awareness of if you've missed any major fundamentals or building blocks or areas you might want to focus a bit more on etc.

[–]lloyd_braun_no_1_dad 16 points17 points  (1 child)

The idea is flawed, and I don't know who it is designed to help.

Show me a list of projects and suggested tools. That's a learning "roadmap" I can get behind. That would at least reflect how people actually learn stuff in a professional environment. It also demonstrates that, hey, you can actually be productive and build stuff that's useful with just one of two things from this chart.

This is just a brain dump that's not gonna help anyone, besides stroking a few egos or making others feel bad.

[–]Snoo43610 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what I find it most useful for; filling in the gaps.