I've done a little bit of coding before, mostly copying small examples and changing things until they work. i want to learn python well enough to build useful stuff on my own instead of relying on tutorials for every little thing. my end goal is to make a personal expense tracker that can categorize purchases and show where my money goes each month. i understand basic variables and loops, but i still get confused when a project has multiple files or functions. i'd prefer to learn by actually building something rather than watching hours of videos. what should i learn first, and how would you break this project into manageable steps for a beginner?

I m a BS student and almost every semester I have to make PowerPoint presentations for group assignments and individual ones. Right now I only know the basics: adding text, a few images and basic slide layouts. My slides always end up looking crowded and boring, and I know they could look so much better.

I want to learn:

How to design clean, professional slides and how to organize content so it's easy to present (I usually have to speak for 6-7 minutes per person) and Using fonts, colors, layouts and animations properly without overdoing.

I m beginner to lower-intermediate. I can use PowerPoint, but I don't really understand design.

For those who are good at making presentations: how did you learn? Did you practice on real assignments, copy designs you liked, or follow a structured course? I'd love to hear what actually worked for you rather than just a list of links.

I strictly learn by doing. Sitting through slide decks, reading manuals, and listening to lectures just doesn't stick for me—so when the hands-on phase finally starts, I feel completely blank like I didn't retain anything from class.

​For fellow kinesthetic learners:

​How do you absorb process flows during passive, lecture-heavy training?

​How do you bridge the gap between classroom theory and live practice so you don't freeze up on day one?

​Any quick tips or study hacks would really help!

I took an iq test twice this month for a job, and I find out that I have almost borderline bad iq result the first I got 83, and for the second I got 81, and I think am dumb, and I wanna fix that if it is even possible.

I (F18) am moving out of my house due to having a toxic home life. I don't have many friends, only a couple that I'm not even close with. I have a boyfriend but I can tell that the relationship is coming to an end for no particular reason.

I know I am going to be on my own for a little while, and I will have to do things alone. I want to learn how to accept being alone and feeling lonely, and how to function and be happy without having friends or even family to rely on.

Hi! As the title says, I want to learn watercolouring, but so far, I haven't been able to find art supplies that are non-toxic and eco-friendly enough in India.

\\- I have substituted pallete with a steel plate

\\- I am also looking for brushes made with natural fibre. I know it’s not impossible to find some with a wooden handle as I recall someone saying that the brush used to be made with horse's tail when Iw as a kid? idk if they were bluffing 😅 But it would be nice to find brushed without nylon or plastic.

\\- I also can't seem to find vibrant colours in India yet. I love the colour mix as they have it on most non-ecofriendly options but I won't go for them, obviously.

I'd love some suggestions for brushes and watercolor paints, please! Thanks in advance! ❤️

When it comes to paper, I will recycle and make the paper myself. The process seems fairly straightforward and fun. Wish me luck!

Hi all, I am a tech enthusiast, who likes to learn anything fast, but the problem with me is I don't like watching hours watching those tutorials on youtube, udemy and documentation available on the websites. What I feel is those are useful but takes lot of time and attention, which nobody have now a days. I am not able to stay attentive on doing on thing more than 10 - 15mins, after doing enough research what I found is micro courses are effective for me. and specially deeplearning.ai courses are perfect for me without any doubt. But the problem was it as we trending topics fast and to keep up with trends I had to wait till they publish. so I built something for myself to make microcourses like deeplearning ai style, with more interactive elements. It got too adictive that I use daily and understand and learn really fast and I am getting sense of how much I am able to learn, later my friends liked it and started using it.

thought would be helpful to share with you guys here, you may try it at qlearnai.com

I'm looking for essays to listen to (not watch!) during walks.

They should be max 1 hour long and give a comprehensive overview of their topic (without delving in the finer details).

They can be about whatever topic you like: books, events, people, authors, etc.
I want to check a few subjects and then delve into those that happen to spark my curiosity.

Not necessarily looking for lectures, the content creator might just talk about his or her own research/point of view.

Thanks!

Hey everyone!

I'm 17 and have been working on my own app called Rabbly. It's still a work in progress, but I've just finished the first working prototype and now I'm trying to figure out whether the concept is actually useful to other people.

The idea is to create a platform for general knowledge where users can scroll through learning modules just like they would on TikTok or Instagram Reels. However, instead of videos, the content consists of interactive, clickable learning units.

There are two ways to create these modules:

1. Creating and publishing your own modules

Users can create their own learning content using a kind of modular toolbox. They simply choose which sections their module should contain (e.g. an introduction, explanations, images, quizzes, etc.) and fill these sections with their own content.

2. Generating modules with AI

Users can also simply enter a topic they're interested in, and AI generates a complete learning module with relevant information and interactive elements. These AI-generated modules are automatically made public so that other users can discover and learn from them as well. This way, the platform's library of learning content can grow quickly.

I'd genuinely appreciate any honest feedback, including criticism. Even if you think it's a shitty idea, please let me know! I'm particularly interested in whether you'd actually use something like this and what you think could be improved.

Thanks for taking the time to read this!

Hey everyone!

I've recently gotten interested in learning the kalimba (thumb piano), but I have absolutely no musical background. I've never played an instrument, learned singing, or studied music theory.

So far, I've only been following YouTube tutorials and copying numbered tabs to play songs. While I can reproduce a few melodies, I feel like I'm just memorising which keys to press rather than actually learning the instrument.

I want to understand what I'm playing, develop a sense of rhythm, learn basic music theory, and eventually be able to figure out simple melodies by ear instead of depending on tabs.

Since the kalimba is a relatively niche instrument, I haven't been able to find a proper learning path.

For someone starting from complete scratch:

- Where should I begin?

- Should I learn basic music theory alongside playing?

- Any recommended YouTube channels, books or other resources?

- What should I practise to genuinely improve rather than just memorise songs?

I'd love to hear from people who taught themselves an instrument or learned the kalimba without any prior musical experience.

Thanks!

Idk why but I don't know a lot about technology and how it works. I want to learn more about it, especially tricks or hacks or ways to solve problems. I also like AI but I don't know too much about it and it's basic uses but I want to use it a lot more to it's full potential. What can I do?

I do not want to use AI to write, i want to learn how to do it myself, the thing is english is not my native language and my English is not so great, also to study abroad I'll have to crack IELTS too with a good band so any suggestions related to thet too would be appreciated

As some who's in uni i will also have to publish research papers two years later, i want the ability to write with proper structure, natural flow, well articulated.

Whether writing academic research paper, content, poetry n all or even js communication.

Help me y'all, this was my current level of writing.

I am a university student, and if the need arises, I can definitely attempt critical thinking (though they're not as profound as i'd like), but I find in my day-to-day life and lectures, I don't question the things I'm told, which makes me feel a bit ashamed of myself, and that I shouldn't even be a university student if i just mindlessly take in information like that.

When I'm learning something as a complete beginner I do just take information at face value and try to understand it as I've been told since you can't really question things you don't understand, but on topics I have a fairly solid education on, I find it hard to actually be curious (it almost feels like my brain is "lazy"?)

My professor mentioned the other day in class that when he was an undergrad, he noticed a discrepancy between a supposedly universal principle taught in one class - something taught in his other class broke that principle, which he made the connection between and brought it up to a prof, who dismissed it as a typo (but my professor ended up being correct about that principle not being universal after all).

Point of all that is, I'm envious of people who make those cross-contextual connections and show that degree of curiosity!

Don’t get me wrong I feel healthy aside from some back pain haven’t been sick in 2 years but what I mean is I want to eat healthy and workout consistently I would do like 2 - 3 months of being disciplined then I cave every time I get back on it I go even harder than before the last consistent period I went as far as buying home equipment to negate my excuse of traveling to the gym and changed workout times to early mornings to stop my excuse for being exhausted after work during this last period I felt my greatest I’ve ever felt in a long time my arms was swole lol I then took a vacation and have been on my worse spiral yet I just passed 200lbs as a 32 male and the gut it really doing a number on my back idk why it’s being such a struggle this time around I’m trying but then fall off quickly my body is craving junk salty sugary stuff I satisfy the craving and then I automatically feel regret I know what I have to do I’ve done my research on it all and again I have been consistent but it does not last like I want to make this a lifestyle and I know I have it in me but why is it so hard?

Basically the title. I’m so tired of feeling this way and I genuinely want to start taking steps to get better and stop this horrible feeling but I don’t know where to start. I’m hoping someone on here with similar experience can point me in the right direction.

I’ll give some relevant info on myself first. Basically, I’m a young woman, diagnosed autistic. While I am high functioning (and honestly pretty social), it’s definitely not easy. Its impacted my self esteem quite a lot. Growing up, I was ostracized by my peers and even bullied in junior high. I was treated as though I was stupid by many adults in my life, including those close to me, and wasn’t given any of the support I needed despite adults around me knowing I had a disability. For a long time, I was essentially ridiculed (or at least it felt that way) by nearly everyone I interacted with, and I had no idea why. While I’m doing better for myself now, I still cant help feeling stupid, weird and worthless.

I think a lot of my self worth is tied to how I view myself in terms of intellect and success. During my first years of uni, I went through a really difficult period involving DV (which I won’t get into details here just cuz that’s a whole thing) and it led to me failing classes, withdrawing classes, and getting lower grades because I was so depressed and traumatized that I did not care and could not get myself to do anything. I basically gave up on life and didn’t think I had a future worth fighting for. I was planning to take myself out, but decided to keep pushing for whatever reason, and now here we are. Since, I’ve made deans list twice, won academic awards, been involved in my campus community, and I’m in the process of applying for grad programs, but those failure haunt me. I feel I will never make up for it. No matter what I do. I feel like my life is completely ruined because of something someone else did to me (although of course, it’s totally my own fault for actually failing the classes lmao). I keep feeling like I’ll never get into the grad programs I desperately want to get into. And knowing I was capable the entire time, but just going through events that prevented me from reaching full potential, hurts me deeply. I’m also stuck in the loop of “others have it so much worse, I have no right to feel this way, I’m weak and whiny. Nobody would feel sorry for me.”

I’m just tired of feeling inadequate, and like I don’t belong and never will. I don’t know who I am, and I don’t know where to start figuring it out.

Sorry for the long rant. I just wanted to air it all out, and I would be beyond grateful if someone could share their experience/advice with me. Anything helps <3

I saw videos of how intelligent crows are and apparently they have the IQ of a 7 year old and can solve complex problems using just their logic, so I had the bright idea to have a crow bring me valuable objects or money in exchange for peanuts.

Our neighbourhood has a gang of crows that we feed every morning and I want to figure out how to make first contact with them so I can start this training process, but I want to also have a plan on how to make them understand money and have them know that they can find this in the real world and give it to me for food. Any crow experts in here that can help me out?

It’s not an unusual story, but unfortunately, I don’t have anyone I can ask for advice about this: I’m in college, and there’s a girl in one of my classes I’m attracted to. Lately, I’ve been trying to get closer to her: talking more, trying to be her partner in the group projects, that sort of thing, and I get the feeling that she... isn’t rejecting me? Like, I think we’re getting closer in a good way and pace. The thing is, I’m not really sure how to move from this current dynamic to something clearer and more defined, that is, to show that my interest is romantic (I’m not even sure how to tell if the time is right for that).

I would like some advice that has a real chance of working out, but in case it doesn’t, I’d at least like to be able to maintain our friendship, since she is such a great person.

I would appreciate any advice you can offer from the heart. Thanks in advance!

Obs: Sorry for any gramatical errors, English isn't my first language.

Hi! I’m currently in Year 11 at a German academic secondary school (Gymnasium), taking advanced-level Biology (Leistungskurs), and working towards my Abitur (roughly comparable to A-levels).

It’s only been about eight weeks since the school year started, but every time I sit in that class, I feel like I’m getting dumber and dumber.

I’ve noticed that my biggest difficulty isn’t memorising information, but actually understanding how different topics connect to each other and how biological processes work in general.

Whenever we start covering something completely new, my classmates seem to already have all the answers in their heads. They’ll immediately make connections between previously covered topics and the new material, draw conclusions, or come up with terms and explanations that I never would have thought of. Some stuff does kind of make sense to me after the ‘answer’ is revealed but other than that my head’s just empty.

No matter how many times I read a text or how well I memorise biological terms, I still struggle to understand the bigger picture. I can know individual definitions , but when I’m expected to combine that knowledge, apply it to an unfamiliar situation, understand a process or independently draw conclusions, I feel completely lost.

I genuinely want to develop my logical and analytical thinking skills rather than just become better at memorising information.

How can I actually train myself to think this way? Are there particular exercises, study methods, books or habits that helped you develop this ability?

Someone PLEASE help me because biology will quite literally end me otherwise 🥲

Quiero aprender de política para poder tener criterio propio pero sin que se me inculque una ideología concreta y sea yo el que decida. Tengo muy poco conocimiento al respecto.

I don't care about reading fast. I just want to understand complex articles and books better without forgetting what I just read. What habits or techniques actually work for you?

Currently in sophomore year of UNI

I think I have reached a point where I don't know what to do with my life cause what I have seen is that I am just plain dumb .

I can't notice finer details people see, be present in a offline conversation, so can't remember stuff easily which makes it difficult to ask better questions and spot anomalies in what others saying , recognize what type of person other one is and start fun convo , provide creative solutions in a ongoing situation .THE WORST PART IS THAT ALL OF THESE THINGS COMES NATURALLY TO PEOPLE around me because of which they are more successful or atleast has the potential to if they put their mind in it .

But I feel like I can't do this cause I am not able to critically think and analyse something and come with better solution on the spot or atleast after a while of thinking on it and I AM NOT SELF AWARE unless somebody points that stuff out .

I am comfortable in doing tasks which are kinda MONOTONOUS in nature (which have certain rules everyone has to play by ) but I need to know a little logic behind doing it too.

Because of this I am socially struggling in UNIVERSITY cause I don't know what is the right thing to do in a situation and how to come up with good stuff or atleast fun stuff to say.

PLEASE HELP ME OUT HERE, DON'T KNOW WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME AND HOW TO FIX IT

I'm really not good at it, I tend to either just disassociate or start overthinking my own thought process whenever I try to

I want to read about reality and hyper reality. I think Foucault talks about this and maybe Mark Fisher's book Capitalist Realism? I've been thinking a lot about reality since reading Naomi Klien's Doppelganger. I want to learn more about reality TV, the perceptions of reality, performing reality, that kind of thing. What books are out there about this? Any ideas are welcome!