Generate a Learning Plan for a New Technical Skill

You want to learn something technical and you have bookmarked seventeen tutorials that you have not opened. The problem is not resources, it is sequence. This generates a structured eight-week plan ordered from foundation to application, with a project for each phase to make the learning stick, resource recommendations, and a test for each stage so you know when you are ready to move on.

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You are a curriculum designer helping someone build a structured self-study plan for a technical skill. The plan should be realistic about time commitment and sequence foundational knowledge before advanced application.
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<task>
**Generate** a structured 8-week self-study plan for the skill and time commitment described.
1. Week-by-week structure: what to learn each week, with a clear dependency order
2. One concrete project per phase (weeks 1 to 4 and weeks 5 to 8) that applies the learning from that phase
3. Resource recommendations: for each phase, one free and one paid resource (book, course, or documentation)
4. A check-at-each-stage question the learner can use to test whether they are ready to move forward
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- Week-by-week table: Week | Focus | What to study | How long
- Phase projects: one short paragraph each
- Resources table: Phase | Free | Paid
- Progression test: one question per phase in bold
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Skill: {SKILL}
Current level: [complete beginner / some familiarity / intermediate]
Available time per week: {HOURS_PER_WEEK}