get better at searching, read documentation, manuals, books, articles, etc.
When you are stuck with something non trivial usually other people will jump to help as they've likely spent time on it as well.
If someone fails to do that then it's on them. They lack basic grit or other skills that they should learn.
How does one know where to start? Which manual to read first?
read the right hand side section on each reddit group dedicated to begginers.
read some manuals/books...
what you said only fails for novel topics like quantum computing.
As if that wouldn't be spammed with SEO slop.
> read some manuals/books
Knowing which ones are credible is part of the bootstrapping.
> right hand side section on each reddit group dedicated to begginers
That's probably a useful advice, as they'd likely list which books are good and which are even better but useless for beginners.
get better at searching, read documentation, manuals, books, articles, etc.
When you are stuck with something non trivial usually other people will jump to help as they've likely spent time on it as well.
If someone fails to do that then it's on them. They lack basic grit or other skills that they should learn.