Summary lecture week 9

Jason's lecture today was about how to teach yourself software.
He gave us some really good advices what to do, how to do it and what not to do.
First he told us, that you should try to teach yourself easy software and not to ask first other people for help. For example how to use Adobe Flash, a really important page, cause the most movie websites or the sites of MTV or Nike use Flash.
But he also mentioned, that the right use of software could be a problem, cause if your not that into it you can make terrible mistakes. Therefore we talked about how you can teach yourself software in a few days. The result was that it's nearly impossible to do that, cause good software is deep and you need months or years to learn it. It's not enough if you have tried photoshop once for example and then say 'Yes, i can use it'.
At the beginning you should try to learn it by playing with it, open the software and try to use it. But make sure that you save all your data. Save your work is really important.
Another advice was to try many different ways to learn software and don't waste your time by spending to many hours at one solution.
And if you have problems or if you need help use the help file or search for help or better join forums and ask questions. But make sure that the forum has an active community. Another way for help could also be the use of video tutorials.
But always keep in mind, that if you are able to use software it's all about the content. Easy software can be used by every person, but the content is important!!