🔵 Workflow B: Apply Example Project
Learn techniques and skills using a course example project.
When a course includes an example project, the project is part of the lecture content.
Copy and run the example, understand how it works,
make a technical modification, and then apply the skills to a new problem.
Professional Learning Loop
This reflects how professionals often learn new tools and techniques:
start with a working system, understand it, modify it, and adapt it to new situations.
WHY?
Example projects provide a working system for learning professional analytics
tools and techniques.
Starting from working code makes it possible to inspect real project
structure, run commands, trace results, and make controlled changes.
This workflow builds practice with a common professional pattern:
- run an existing project,
- understand it,
- modify it, and
- adapt the approach to a new problem.
Five Phases
- Start & Run
- Change Authorship
- Read & Understand the Example Project
- Make a Technical Modification
- Apply the Skills to a New Problem