IT professionals often get motivated to learn programmability and automation skills after attending webinars, or reading articles on network programmability, NetDevOps, automation, infrastructure-as-Code, etc.

But learning new skills like Python, Ansible, REST APIs can sometime be very intimidating. Even for very experienced IT professionals. Those of us who are new to network automation may end up spending hours, or even days in debugging their first python module installation issue, or REST API response parsing issue. As a result, it can be difficult to find time and motivation to continue the learning journey before successfully automating your first real task.

Help for new learners

The DevNet engineering and UX team took inspiration from the learning-to-ride-a-bicycle model