Does such a place exist?
There are frequent "buddy" posts for people looking to learn together.
Using tools like VSCode LiveShare allows live pair programming during study.
I am a 'kinetic-Social-learner' - I learn by doing with others.
When I hit a roadblock on learning programming, and I am alone - I still get mired in failing to resolve the problem with search and I do well when I have others to speak to and learn from (which is why I love having smart engineers around me) - but when I am not working (like now, and alone, like the pandemic - learning was ROUGH) and it doesnt help that I am older and a bit burned out on the idea of the greater tech space - the AI-Bros are going to eat my lunch money.
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I do have an idea that I'd like to share - something I cant pull off alone - but Here is the idea for a a Solution to your Question by builing the Answer:
If you are open - I'd am willing to learn with you - (I had a long career in OPs - but never as a dev - I managed REALLY talented devops people because I was good with talking to the Engineers to the C-Suite didnt have to.
--- One of my biggest problems is finding a singular idea to focus on building, no matter how small - and my ShinyThing.exe kicks in and I get distracted.
What I'd like to do is collaborate on an idea that we can build together while we learn.
And I propose learning, by building the platform/app/whatever that youre discussing and we are both suffering from - and give it a go. Who cares how crappy it turns out - but I need a buddy student as well.
If you're interested. FirstInitialLastName (from my username) at Proton. me.
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