Guys I need some insights. Do you need some prior knowledge to get into this if all you did professionally was being a backend dev in C#? Mostly web shit.
I had a project in mind that required some facial recognition stuff but most of the AI API for face stuff are so limited. So out of curiosity, I bought this course to have an introduction on the subject: https://www.udemy.com/course/learn-ethical-hacking-from-scratch/?couponCode=MT150725A

Most of the time I skip theoritical stuff when it comes to deving but I watched the ones of this courses and I don't understand jack shit when the teacher speaks about mathematical equations and that kind of subjects.

Should I teach myself on some subjects first or should I go straight up for the development part and simply follow the guidelines like a robot? I'm not compeltly lost but I do feel like... unworthy.

Tell me something. I learned the basics of Houdini, I know how to use VEX, I know about groups and attributes and most of the important nodes for modeling.
But something doesn't click in my mind about which VEX functions or the procedure I need to implement to do something I have in my mind. I lack knowledge about most of the VEX functions + I guess the IQ to come up with a solution by myself.

Is it really an IQ problem or an experience one? What do I do? Spam tutorials? Again...