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Helpers for students

TIPS FOR SUCCESS in WDD 430 BYU - Idaho

What is an engineer reading Doucmentation Googling to find help problem sovling larning new stuff and being able to use it effecticely

Your primary is not just to BECOME a proficient Angular Developer but an overall solid CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVER.

up to 4 different "Google Searches" (I do recommend Google as the search engine but it only partially due to using Chrome tools and extensions) only read the first 5-10 hits on the page - a typical search has millions of hits potentially after a while you being to see if you asking the right quesitons to the search based on how relevant the hits are. You refine this overtime.

1. Ask it 100% exactly the way you have thought out in your mind WITHOUT anything specific to you personally so generalize it
2. ask it like you are asking a computer who does not understand complete phrases only KEY words
3. Change the search with various techniques like try chaning the order of the words, cutting out fluff, making it more direct or simple
4. Try sepcial key words, only try ONE of these key words at a time for caried results: EXAMPLE of ..., write your question then put on the end of it a GITHUB (so you can read code either in a repo public code OR even better in the github dev forums, STACKOVERFLOW, Your framework in this case Angular (version helps)

Strategies to learn more quickly.

1 read then APPLY in smaller chunks.

BUILD STUFF

SOCIAL/MORE HELP FORUMS

Anuglar Forums https://utahjs.com/ 3 channels and a few main help channels.

JS Forums

Facebook Groups

Reddit Discord Medium (log/tutorials)

Github chat threads on issues

EXAMPLE CODE reading code to learn code

Searching to find a problem can;t i jsut get good at coding andn nothave ot google stuff. that is what we call Javascioprt skills Anuglar skills Problem Solving skills in general

when you want a tutor ro Sr veteran dev to hel pyou they are good at these skills ususally so seeing them in action is very powerful learning but also thier time is very valuable so those occasions can hbe rare.

Paid tutor sites.