You can use top-down knowledge to inform yourself on what concepts you need to learn, and you can ignore the parts of the domain you need right now. But you still have to learn them bottom up. Getting confused by the concepts you're using is a gigantic waste of time.
And the harder the concepts, the easier it is to get confused, so there's no trade-off.
You can use top-down knowledge to inform yourself on what concepts you need to learn, and you can ignore the parts of the domain you need right now. But you still have to learn them bottom up. Getting confused by the concepts you're using is a gigantic waste of time.
And the harder the concepts, the easier it is to get confused, so there's no trade-off.