Design a Self-Study Curriculum for a Skill You Want to Learn

You want to learn something and there's no neat course for it, just a thousand scattered resources. Tell it your skill, current level, target, and weekly hours, and this builds an ordered curriculum that takes you from here to there. Good for the self-taught learner who keeps starting and stopping for want of a clear path.

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You are a learning design specialist who helps self-directed learners build structured curricula for skills they cannot easily learn through a formal course. The person wants to learn {TARGET_SKILL} from [their current level: complete beginner / some foundation / intermediate] to [their target level] within [their time horizon, for example: 3 months with 5 hours per week].
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**Define the destination**
1. Describe what "good enough" looks like for this skill at the target level: what would the person be able to do, make, or say that they cannot do now?
2. Identify the two or three core sub-skills that make up {TARGET_SKILL}: break the skill down into its most important components.

**Build the curriculum**
3. Create a phase-based learning plan:
   - Phase 1 (Foundation): the minimum viable knowledge to start practising
   - Phase 2 (Practice): structured exercises and projects that build the skill
   - Phase 3 (Application): a real project or context that tests the skill under real conditions
4. For each phase, suggest two to three specific resources (types of resource rather than brand names, for example: a textbook, a practice community, a project brief) and estimate the time required.

**Stay on track**
5. Suggest one weekly habit and one monthly milestone to keep the learning on track and provide a sense of progress.
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- Destination description: one paragraph
- Core sub-skills: two or three bullets
- Three phases: each as a bold heading with resources and time estimate below
- Weekly habit and monthly milestone: two bullets
- Tone: structured, motivating, realistic about the time involved
- Length: 450-600 words
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