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by lloyd-christmas 3549 days ago
"I want to study oncology" - On the biological side? Go learn biology. On the ML research side? Go learn basic python syntax before trying to train a neural network.

I usually see 3 categories:

- I want to learn Web Development.

- I want to learn Web Development, but in all actuality I'm going to quit in 3 days.

- I want to learn Web Development, but in all actuality I just want something working with no effort.

None of these need an informed decision. The latter 2 don't matter anyway, and the first one is better off starting with a vanilla ajax request[0], and they likely know it. When it comes down to it, "I'm going to make an app today" means your decision likely doesn't have long-term consequences and an informed decision isn't all that important. Pick up jquery like the other 80% of the living internet[1].

[0] https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/an-example-of-ajax-...

[1] http://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/jQuery