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Learning curve

Learning curve

Posted Aug 20, 2007 4:41 UTC (Mon) by pjm (subscriber, #2080)
In reply to: Getting started with Git by bronson
Parent article: Getting started with Git

Without having come from a cognitive psychology background (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_curve), I'd have thought that a learning curve would have the amount learned as the y axis, not productivity.

If a tool requires a lot to be learned before I can be productive with that tool, then I will do a lot of learning early on, so such a graph would indeed be steeper than for a tool requiring very little knowledge in order to be productive in it, where one can afford to take one's time in learning more about it.


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