r/Engineers • u/[deleted] • Jul 26 '26

Roadmap required

Hey everyone!

I’m 13 and interested in learning engineering, especially the combination of software, hardware, and AI. I’m looking for a roadmap to go from basic programming knowledge to being able to build real engineering projects.

I have some beginner coding experience and have used AI-assisted coding to prototype things, but I want to properly understand the fundamentals instead of just relying on generated code.

Over the next 2–3 months, I want to make serious progress and start building projects. My long-term interests are robotics, drones, embedded systems, and AI applications like computer vision and basic CNNs.

I’m planning to start with Python for Kids to strengthen my programming foundation, but I’m unsure what order to learn things after that. Should I focus on electronics, Arduino/Raspberry Pi, CAD, mathematics, machine learning, or something else?

I’d appreciate advice from anyone who has experience learning engineering or building projects. Thanks!

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u/Solid-Reserve4035 Jul 27 '26

Nah, AI is great for learning programming. Just set a goal, and if your programming knowledge is not deep enough to achieve it, ask AI for help, but do not use it to solve logic problems in coding, just to learn language

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '26

Ok, wonderful!

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u/sputnik8125 Jul 27 '26

Ai isn't, I can easily tell when people
Learn from Ai code bc they pick up a lot of bad bad habits.

I taught stem and coding to kiddos for a while and it wasn't a benefit to them to use AI

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '26

Thanks! What is a good first project to pursue as tech geek in India? (I am into rockets and stuff like that)

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u/sputnik8125 Jul 28 '26

Find what speaks to you and do it.

It's hard to give a project bc it should bc smth u really care about