Technical requirements

We will not be doing any coding or deployment, so there won't be any technical requirements for this chapter.

You can learn new things and explore them generally from two directions: the top-down approach, where you want to do something, or are required to do something, and the bottom-up approach, where you start with the tools, and you want to explore the possibilities and what you can do with them:

• Top-down: Because of a certain requirement or constraint, often you will be required to do something – make something faster, better, or easier, for example. In order to solve these problems, or satisfy some requirement, you are required to learn something new. The value of this approach is mainly its practicality. You know what is useful and what is required, and this helps focus your mind and energy on the solution that you want, which is focused on solving a practical problem. At the same time, if you only focus on practical problems, you...