A more detailed rundown on the community.
What is meant by accessible resources for structured learning?
Accessible: The idea here is to share resources that would benefit the largest group of people, regardless of knowledge background or financial background.
This doesn't mean we're not allowed to share more specialized topics, or resources that require payment, but try to also provide alternatives that are free (or cheaper), or alternatives that might be suitable to cover the requirements of the more specialized course. This isn't a rule, just a general guide, be free to share any good quality resources.
Resources: These can be of any format, a book, a tutorial in the form of a video series, or a course on coursera or khan academy, anything really.
What do I mean by structured? The internet is a blessing and it contains a wealth of knowledge, however, that knowledge in a lot of cases is unorganized, and as such not ideal for learning.
So we need some form of an organized learning curve that leads us step by step into building the requisite knowledge for the material we want to learn.
Thankfully, the internet is also filled with such resources, but sadly, they might be obscure or unpopular, and they might not show up readily when making quick searches online.
This doesn't mean all shared resources must follow a course/tutorial structure, Anything that can be helpful to studying is welcome, even if they're considered secondary resources, for example, cheat sheets, or online documentation which might be helpful are also welcome.
So the goal is to have a nice community effort where people can share good quality resources, and in time maybe even organize them in a wiki or pastebin to have a curated list organized by specialty/genre.
The topics can cover anything:
The internet is filled with people from diverse backgrounds with different interests, hobbies, or university majors, so everyone might have something to share:
- It can be a guide or a video series on fitness that might help others get started with exercise routines, or improve their current exercise habits.
- It can be a good interactive guide to help someone learn a certain programming language.
- It can be a good resource that teaches people how to bake.
- It can be anything, so long as they're useful or desirable skills.
So the end goal is resources that help us improve in various ways, whether it's specialized knowledge, or developing skills.
Happy learning.
If anyone knows of any communities that might have a similar topic, then I'd be happy to add them to the sidebar.