Write Quick Tiny Replies
One of the best things people could do here is write lots of short (1-3 sentence) replies, primarily in reply to me.
Having "discussions" is hard. Reading what other posters say and benefitting from that is hard (takes significant critical thinking skills and good judgment and time management). Writing a quick comment to share your thoughts is much easier.
If you want to make much progress here, you'll have to do and post stuff. (I'm working on setting up a new site that will work better with less participation. But that is not my goal here. The Basecamp is primarily for people to participate at if they want to.)
So far, no one has done several short, easy, successful projects, nor talked about why not. Writing short comments is even easier than doing some 1-5min projects. (Another way to make project practice easier is to write down the planning (like goals, steps, resources) shortly after doing it instead of before.)
Just reading stuff is even easier but I am not trying to make that work here. It's very difficult, and tons of work, to help people make any meaningful progress without them communicating. That is not a goal at this Basecamp. You can read articles here for entertainment if you want but you should not expect your life and knowledge to actually improve that way.
Having "discussions" is hard. Reading what other posters say and benefitting from that is hard (takes significant critical thinking skills and good judgment and time management). Writing a quick comment to share your thoughts is much easier.
If you want to make much progress here, you'll have to do and post stuff. (I'm working on setting up a new site that will work better with less participation. But that is not my goal here. The Basecamp is primarily for people to participate at if they want to.)
So far, no one has done several short, easy, successful projects, nor talked about why not. Writing short comments is even easier than doing some 1-5min projects. (Another way to make project practice easier is to write down the planning (like goals, steps, resources) shortly after doing it instead of before.)
Just reading stuff is even easier but I am not trying to make that work here. It's very difficult, and tons of work, to help people make any meaningful progress without them communicating. That is not a goal at this Basecamp. You can read articles here for entertainment if you want but you should not expect your life and knowledge to actually improve that way.
It is a learning activity.
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I guess: writing a quick tiny reply is a short easy project. But I can think of writing an explainer of how to write a program that can get title of a youtube video and the channel name in google scripts which works in google apps like google sheets and google docs etc. This confuses me. Are these both the same kind of learning activity? Is the goal of both activity same?
It looks like my confusion is stemming from not knowing the goal. I know the goal of learning grammar and learning trees.