Beginner AI, where to start?
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One of the best ways to get started without having a software engineering job is to pick a project that you like. Either a project for you to undertake; or an existing project that you can join like an open source project, and just jump in and attempt to contribute. This gives you two things... first a portfolio piece to talk about; and secondly it gives you a concrete goal on things to learn.
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Thank you all for your kindness, it feels less cloudy in my mind.
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Something that you'll find quickly is that learning a language is almost a background task. At first, or if you talk to universities, they talk about languages all of the time. But in the real world, they don't matter all that much.
Example... if you work in PHP, meh, whatever. Once you work in PHP then you have to decide if you are working with or without a framework. There are so many PHP frameworks. Examples are CakePHP and Laravel. Each of those frameworks is loaded with framework options.
You easily spend more time learning the framework than you do the language. Don't get too lost in the language itself, it's not as important as it seems.
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@scottalanmiller said in Beginner, where to start?:
One of the best ways to get started without having a software engineering job is to pick a project that you like. Either a project for you to undertake; or an existing project that you can join like an open source project, and just jump in and attempt to contribute. This gives you two things... first a portfolio piece to talk about; and secondly it gives you a concrete goal on things to learn.
I don't know if you call those projects, but I passed the nanodegree from Udacity "Intro to programming" (which I don't recommend haha), then I started to build a little software to talk with (It was more like I was talking to myself because the output were written by me lol).
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@scottalanmiller said in Beginner, where to start?:
One of the best ways to get started without having a software engineering job is to pick a project that you like. Either a project for you to undertake; or an existing project that you can join like an open source project, and just jump in and attempt to contribute. This gives you two things... first a portfolio piece to talk about; and secondly it gives you a concrete goal on things to learn.
I did this with the EverQuest Emulator Project around 2009. I wanted to grow my programming skillset as I only really knew VB.net.
I started by working on the quests. That was all in Perl when I started, and I was part of the team that started the migration to Lua.
Over time, as I worked on quests, I became more familiar with the server code and began to contribute back to that also, which is all in C++.
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Start here: https://developer.nvidia.com/
Pick up a development kit like Nvidia Jetson and learn by doing.
When you know more, you'll know what your next step has to be. -
Want to see an interesting AI project that is in the wild, check out DeepL
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Welcome!
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Thanks again everyone for all of the informations!
