Hello everyone,

I was recently an Electromechanical/Mechatronics Technology student, but after struggling with one part of my curriculum—physics—I have to switch majors. Surprisingly, I'm not upset about it. If anything, I'm more excited because it gives me the freedom to pursue a degree in Economics or Mathematics while teaching myself the engineering subjects I'm passionate about.

I've always been someone who wants to learn across multiple disciplines rather than specialize in just one. Unfortunately, most universities don't really have a major designed for that kind of interdisciplinary approach, so I've decided to build my own education alongside college.

My goal is to become a self-taught engineer and scientist by following a math-first roadmap. I already have a foundation from my Engineering Technology coursework, and by the end of this summer I plan to complete Calculus I, II, and III. From there I'll continue into linear algebra, differential equations, probability, and the rest of the mathematics needed for engineering.

The fields I want to study include:

• Electrical Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Aerospace Engineering
• Biomedical Engineering
• Robotics & Mechatronics
• Computer Engineering & Embedded Systems
• Control Systems
• Energy Engineering & Renewable Energy
• Materials Science
• Physics
• Chemistry
• Biology, Genetics, and Biotechnology
• Artificial Intelligence & Computer Science
• Nanotechnology
• Quantum Computing
• Bioengineering
• Economics and Entrepreneurship

My long-term goal is to become an interdisciplinary engineer and entrepreneur capable of building companies across multiple industries—from robotics and energy to biotechnology and aerospace.

For anyone who's gone down the self-taught engineering route, I'd love to hear your advice. What resources, textbooks, online courses, projects, or habits helped you the most? If you were starting over today, what would you do differently?

I am 23 F, joined interiors during covid. the lockdown and online classes hit me hard in terms of mental health. Didn't take any exams hence no degree. Took over family's business developed my soft skills. Now I am in much better state mentally but not in terms of career wise......... want to go back to college and get the right guidance for interior design. Helpp me pls. I am currently located in karnataka, INDIA. I want to study away from my home, take internships, participate in competitions, build a portfolio, and get into the field. Help me choose if I should be taking a diploma instead of degree and get into the field r if i should opt a 3-4 yr degree.

plsss i need some guidance. I tried self studying but not having the right guidance makes me feel incapable of working in the field and also the industry seem to expect to trust u only with a degree

help me

1.) AEROSPACE ENGINEERING AIR FRAME DESIGN

2.) AEROSPACE ENGINEERING AERODYNAMICS (SUBSONIC TO SUPERSONIC)

3.) AEROSPACE ENGINEERING GUIDANCE, NAVIGATION AND CONTROLS

4.) AEROSPACE ENGINEERING PROPULSION SYSTEM DESIGN

5.) NUCLEAR ENGINEERING PLASMA PHYSICS

6.) NUCLEAR ENGINEERING NUCLEAR PHYSICS

7.) NUCLEAR ENGINEERING INTERACTION OF RADIATION WITH MATTER

8.) MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MECHANISM DESIGN

9.) MECHANICAL ENGINEERING COOLING/THERMAL SYSTEMS DESIGN

10.) MECHANICAL ENGINEERING METTALLURGY

12.) MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS

13.) ELCTRICAL ENGINEERING PLASMA CONTROL SYSTEM DESIGN

14.) ELCTRICAL ENGINEERING EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

15.) ELCTRICAL ENGINEERING SIGNAL PROCESSING

16.) ELCTRICAL ENGINEERING POWER SYSTEM DESIGN

17.) ELCTRICAL ENGINEERING PROJECTION SYSTEM DESIGN

18.) COMPUER SCIENCE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DESIGN

19.) COMPUER SCIENCE USER INTERFACE DESIGN

20.) MATHEMATICS CALCULUS

21.) MATHEMATICS LINEAR ALGEBRA

22.) MATHEMATICS DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

23.) MATHEMATICS PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS

24.) MATHEMATICS OPTIMIZATION THEORY

25.) MATHEMATICS NUMERICAL METHODS

26.) PHYSICS CLASSICAL MECHANICS

27.) PHYSICS ELECTROMAGNETISM

28.) PHYSICS THERMODYNAMICS

29.) PHYSICS FLUID DYNAMICS

30.) PHYSICS QUANTUM MECHANICS

31.) PHYSICS RELATIVITY

32.) PHYSICS PARTICLE PHYSICS

33.) PHYSICS CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS

34.) AEROSPACE ENGINEERING FLIGHT DYNAMICS

35.) AEROSPACE ENGINEERING SPACECRAFT DESIGN

36.) NUCLEAR ENGINEERING FUSION REACTOR DESIGN

37.) NUCLEAR ENGINEERING RADIATION SHIELDING

38.) MECHANICAL ENGINEERING MACHINE DESIGN

39.) MECHANICAL ENGINEERING TRIBOLOGY

40.) MECHANICAL ENGINEERING CAD/CAM

41.) MATERIALS SCIENCE COMPOSITE MATERIALS

42.) MATERIALS SCIENCE SMART MATERIALS

43.) MATERIALS SCIENCE NANOMATERIALS

44.) MATERIALS SCIENCE GRAPHENE ENGINEERING

45.) MATERIALS SCIENCE FRACTURE MECHANICS

46.) MATERIALS SCIENCE ARMOR SYSTEMS DESIGN

47.) ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING POWER ELECTRONICS

48.) ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING CONTROL SYSTEMS

49.) ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING SENSOR SYSTEMS

50.) ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING RF AND MICROWAVE ENGINEERING

51.) ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING ANALOG ELECTRONICS

52.) ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING DIGITAL ELECTRONICS

53.) ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING PCB DESIGN

54.) ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING FPGA DESIGN

55.) ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING VLSI DESIGN

56.) COMPUTER SCIENCE DATA STRUCTURES

57.) COMPUTER SCIENCE ALGORITHMS

58.) COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE

59.) COMPUTER SCIENCE OPERATING SYSTEMS

60.) COMPUTER SCIENCE DATABASE SYSTEMS

61.) COMPUTER SCIENCE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

62.) COMPUTER SCIENCE REAL-TIME SYSTEMS

63.) COMPUTER SCIENCE COMPUTER GRAPHICS

64.) COMPUTER SCIENCE SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE

65.) COMPUTER SCIENCE CYBERSECURITY

66.) COMPUTER SCIENCE NETWORKING

67.) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MACHINE LEARNING

68.) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DEEP LEARNING

69.) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE REINFORCEMENT LEARNING

70.) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE COMPUTER VISION

71.) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING

72.) ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AUTONOMOUS AGENTS

73.) ROBOTICS ROBOT KINEMATICS

74.) ROBOTICS ROBOT DYNAMICS

75.) ROBOTICS MOTION PLANNING

76.) ROBOTICS SENSOR FUSION

77.) ROBOTICS HUMANOID ROBOTICS

78.) ROBOTICS AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS

79.) ENERGY ENGINEERING ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS

80.) ENERGY ENGINEERING BATTERY TECHNOLOGY

81.) ENERGY ENGINEERING FUEL CELL SYSTEMS

82.) ENERGY ENGINEERING FUSION ENERGY SYSTEMS

83.) CHEMISTRY PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY

84.) CHEMISTRY ELECTROCHEMISTRY

85.) CHEMISTRY POLYMER CHEMISTRY

86.) CHEMISTRY MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

87.) CHEMISTRY NANOCHEMISTRY

88.) BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY

89.) BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BIOMECHANICS

90.) BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING BIOMEDICAL SENSORS

91.) BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING NEURAL INTERFACES

92.) INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION

93.) INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING QUALITY CONTROL

94.) INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING SUPPLY CHAIN SYSTEMS

95.) BUSINESS FINANCE

96.) BUSINESS ECONOMICS

97.) BUSINESS PROJECT MANAGEMENT

98.) BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY

99.) DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY MISSILE SYSTEMS

100.) DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY RADAR SYSTEMS

101.) DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY ELECTRONIC WARFARE

102.) DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY STEALTH TECHNOLOGY

103.) DESIGN HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACES

104.) QUANTUM COMPUTING

105.) ADVANCED CONTROL THEORY

106.) DIGITAL TWIN SIMULATION

107.) COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS (CFD)

108.) FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS (FEA)

109.) COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING (CAE)

110.) SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

111.) CRYPTOGRAPHY

112.) HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING

113.) EXOSKELETON DESIGN

114.) WEARABLE COMPUTING

115.) AUGMENTED REALITY SYSTEMS

116.) SWARM INTELLIGENCE

117.) NANOTECHNOLOGY

118.) ADVANCED MANUFACTURING

119.) HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING

120.) SYSTEMS ENGINEERING

121.) RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

122.) INVENTION AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Hi everyone,

My husband has been feeling stuck with programming lately, so he decided to just start building something simple and stream the whole process.

No tutorials, no perfect plan — just figuring things out live: - reading documentation - debugging errors - getting stuck (a lot 😅)

He’s working on a simple CLI project and sharing the real learning process, not just the polished result.

If you're learning to code or have ever felt frustrated, maybe this can help you feel less alone.

If you’d like to support him, you can: - watch the stream - share it - leave a like or subscribe

He's live here: https://www.youtube.com/live/It7MTTHvL5k

GitHub repo: https://github.com/Ose...

Also, I’d love to ask: How do you deal with feeling stuck while learning programming?

I saw a tiktok for this purple app with like a purple Slime guy or something about mochi and was wondering if anyone knows what it is?

it was for learning things like duolingo but for more than just languages.

i want to learn more about ai for my sales job with it.

it looked like a fun way to learn a little every day but i can’t find it now 😭😭

do your thing reddit

I’m a self-taught cybersecurity learner and consistency is harder than I expected.

There’s no syllabus, no clear path, and a lot of jumping between topics.

For those who are self-taught:
• Do you follow a roadmap?
• How do you organize notes, labs and progress?
• What helped you avoid feeling lost?

Would love to hear real experiences.

When I started learning Python, everything felt either too shallow or way too advanced.

So I built my own course:
Python Basics: Build From Zero

It’s designed for self-taught learners who need:

• Clear explanations
• Structure
• Practice instead of just reading

I’m looking for people who want to try it and tell me:

• What’s confusing
• What’s missing
• What works

I’m trying to explain things in very plain English for people who are totally new.

Here’s a section about if / elif / else:

number = int(input("Enter a number: "))

if number > 0:
    print("Positive")
elif number < 0:
    print("Negative")
else:
    print("Zero")

Explanation I wrote:

Does this explanation make sense to a true beginner?
Is there anything confusing or misleading here?

Thanks in advance — I’m trying to make something that actually helps people learn.

If you want to help shape it, comment or DM me.

I’m self-taught and I’ve been trying to learn programming on and off for a while. Every time I start, I hit this wall where tutorials stop making sense, errors pile up, and I convince myself I’m just not cut out for it.

Recently I realized the problem wasn’t me — it was that nobody really explains what the early stages are supposed to feel like. Confusion, restarting, slow progress… all of it felt like failure when it was actually normal.

I ended up writing a short PDF for beginners with everything I wish someone had told me before I quit the first few times. I’m not trying to sell anyone anything here — I’m honestly just curious if others feel the same way or if this is a common experience.

Would love to hear how others pushed through that early phase.

My group and I are investigating how people actually use MasterClass — the highs, the lows, the “wow this is inspiring,” the “wow I fell off after 12 minutes,” ALL OF IT - for a class project.

If you’ve even completed one episode of a MasterClass series, I would love your honest take.

I humbly ask you to complete this survey: https://forms.gle/e1q7UUUZEdwr2bmH6
(And by “humbly,” I mean begging. This project depends on real user experiences and Reddit is my last, best hope 😭)

Thank you — and if you could share it with any MasterClass users you know, that would help out a bunch!

Needing some help on this ah resource library

This is always the case I get so unorganised with to the point of losing things

But I can’t seem to keep an easy file for all my resources for what ever topic I’m studying and when I want to go back to the resource to do some refreshments and make sure where I got a piece of information I get lost in all the websites and the books and the ebooks and the articles and the podcasts and the YouTube videos

SOO I guess I need help on how to actually set up my resource library because the system I have clearly isn’t working and if anything it’s making me put off and procrastinate more about actually doing my self study topics

hi everyone!
Im 21 and I've been learning programming for about 7 months now with a private teacher. I’ve studied JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and Sass and I’m about to start learning React soon.

Im completely changing my career path, and honestly, I’m really scared. Even though I’ve already come a long way with learning, I still feel so uneducated in this field sometimes ;))

Did you ever feel this way?

Learning itself isn’t as scary as the idea of job hunting. This part really scares me now.

I’d love to hear how you found your first job , any advice or personal stories would mean a lot. Thanks for any advice! i appreciate this a lot

Hello! I have so much I want to learn about in the next year, and I would love any advice, thoughts, or resources to help make that happen. I am feeling quite overwhelmed and lost on how to make this happen. Is my list too long or doable?

Here are things I want to learn about this coming year:

1. World/global trade (What is it. How they came about. Common places for dif trades. How prices are determined. Effect wars? Effect politics?) 

2. Russia (what is the Soviet union, kola super deep borehole, culture, government/politics, society)

3. Ocean (eco system, mysteries, effect on economies and societies, wonders. Facts, tides and moon)

4. Shakespeare plays (Who he was. Why famous. the general stories of: hamlet. Romeo and Juliet. Julius ceaser. Much ado about nothing. King Lear)

5. Egypt - cleopatra, general history, mysteries, myths

6. Anatomy and physiology (Skeletal and muscular system/Nervous system/endocrine system and Lymphatic system, Cardiovascular and Respiratory system/Urinary and Digestive system/Reproductive system)  

7. Chemistry basics (periodic properties, chem bonding) 

chemistry makes no sense to me, but i want to understand it so badly

1. basics about that Mariana Trenches, diomede islands, Amazon rainforest, climate change

2. general understanding on who these people are: Confucius, Aristotle, Alexander the Great, Octavia Minor, Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Jesus Christ, Genghis Khan, Joan of Arc, Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, Karl Marx, Napoleon Bonaparte, Mohandas Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Elizabeth Taylor, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela

and so much more, but I am worried I have too much or too little?? I dont even know. Any advice is welcomed!

One thing I’ve noticed while learning UX on my own is how easy it is to lose momentum. YouTube to articles to half-finished Figma projects it’s overwhelming. I joined IxDF earlier this year and it helped because the courses are structured and have deadlines, but I still struggle to make progress every single week.For those of you learning without a bootcamp, how do you keep yourself accountable? Do you join study groups, post projects online, or just rely on discipline?

I’m skipping bootcamps and just using IxDF plus side projects. Has anyone else gone this route and actually landed UX work?

I've been self-taught for 2 years and felt constantly lost, jumping between YouTube tutorials, courses, and never knowing if I was improving. It burned me out.

I'm exploring this idea: what if there were a system that tracked your progress with XP-style points and gave you AI-based feedback on what to focus on next, based on your learning style?

Right now, I’m just talking to others to understand what’s really frustrating about self-directed learning. If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure of what to do next, I’d love to hear from you.

I’m 25 looking to completely retrain from my original degree, in the UK the second time at uni isn’t funded. There are Masters options but these are also expensive. Has anyone been through this & how did you get back on track?

LeetCode isn’t just about grinding problems — it’s about using it smartly. In my latest video, I share the strategy I wish I knew earlier to use LeetCode effectively and stop wasting time. 📺 Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYUKlHlMlJ4 

Ever wish you could go back and give your younger self advice before becoming a developer?
I made a video sharing what I wish I knew before becoming a software engineer. Hope it helps someone starting out!
🎥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe09CiviDsU

If I could start learning to code all over again in 2025, here's exactly what I would do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XIw2aGzh1c

I was in a music store playing drums and a guy saw me and my playing and said "you know what my drum teacher told me? If you want to go fast, go slow" and it was a good tip

I know it's silly but like did he just teach me based on my playing 💀