[Chicago] How do you get up to speed with an api?

[Tim Ottinger]

1) A partner - you'd be surprised
2) A series of small projects, something you can finish but which isn't tedious.
3) Bebugging -- adding bugs in to see what the errors look like.
Really valuable training aid.
4) A Mentor to assign exercises and give explanations.

I can hardly learn anything without these. RTFM is slower for me, and
tutorials that tell you what buttons to push and what code to type are
not nearly as useful for me.  I'm more of an experimental learner, so
I need to get the basic idea and then dive in and then learn
iteratively/progressively.

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Tim Ottinger, Sr. Consultant, Industrial Logic
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