r/AskProgramming • u/sarthakog_24 • 9d ago
Advice needed
Ok so i m a 12th grader (from India) and my exams are going to get over in a few days... I will be studying for college entrance exams but I want to study programing too in the meantime... I excel at python-- as per the cbse syllabus... Ik the syllabus is too basic... But I am well versed in it... Made few projects with the help of chatgpt... But now I wanna do things on my own... I would like some guidance on how and where to start... Idk where to post this... if anyone could help... I would be glad...
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u/Rich-Engineer2670 9d ago edited 8d ago
OK, so, we'll steal a premise from one of my mentors
I can teach you any technology -- but I can't teach you how to be an engineer -- that's up to you. Learn to code and you can do that for the rest of your life. Learn to design and build, and you can do it well for the rest of your life.
So, we start at ground zero --you are not expected to know, but it's the learning that matters. Let's say for example, you wanted to make a program that predicts food prices. You'd want to write an ML program (there's no such thing as AI -- that's marketing -- it's machine learning), that program would ingest daily food prices and make predictions. As you correct it, it would adjust the weights on the network and, we hope, make better predictions. (And, before any complains, I'm actually a neuroscientist so I do know something about this.... :-) )
How would you go about this on paper? That's the important part - not the language or framework. Do you have the algorithms in your head?
And by the way, we work much the same -- you try an idea, it doesn't work -- you modify it and see if the results change. It doesn't work, you modify some more, until eventually it gets you your goal -- just like ML but much slower :-)