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The right answer depends on her career goals. If she has a path in mind that would be helpful. If not, then start with free tools until they decides what path they have a passion for.
For free:
Gimp: Graphics drawing/painting Tool. Almost as good as PhotoShop.
Blender: 3D modeling and animation tool.
Unity: Game development platform to use all of the graphics assets created in the above tools.
Once your friend has mastered those and is ready to graduate, then the PhotoShop suite of tools might be a good next step and very likely the tools in use in a lot of commercial shops.
A helpful reference after they know what direction they want to take would be to check help wanted adds to see what skills they are asking for for graphic artist position they are interested in, as well as educational requirements.
Good luck,
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Microsoft is one the most compelling turnaround stories in recent history. Change the icons?
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Don't forget... Let's strike the QA and move the beta testing to the users
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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and fire all the document wirter staff and dump all the code on github and pretend to open source everything and buy linked in before facebook does and buy github before google does...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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abmv wrote: buy linked in before facebook does and buy github before google does...
and screw them up after the purchase...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Ride the fashion's wave (as long as you can put the keywords into the mouth of managers and potential customers, it is unimportant how idiotic it is to use a cannon to harvest - they will demand it)...
Ignore those holds you back (like those reporting errors)...
Drop QA and hire more lawyers (testing done on users computer anyway, and lawyers will defend the takeover of millions of computers does not belong to them by any mean)...
Change and mess-up everything frequently so everyone became totally dependent on you to even do the most simple task...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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They produced a chip containing a network of artificial neurons that works with light and can imitate neurons and their synapses. This network is able to 'learn' information and use this as a basis for computing. Assuming it's bright enough
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Assuming it's bright enough
*groan* 
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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We heard so much about machine learning at Google I/O this year. The humans have run out of ideas of where to put ads?
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They finally realized, that young generation stopped to even try and learn something beyond how to operate a smart phone... so they turned to the machines, that can't refuse? For now...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Otherwise they'd have to admit they're wasting a $billion/year on grotesquely overpaid machine learning devs?
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Google is an advertising broker and deeply resents that. So, they keep saying nonsense to pretend otherwise.
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Fuchsia may hold the key to the future of Android, Chrome, and everything in between Whatever it takes to stop the Oracle lawsuit?
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Let's write yet another OS and pretend we've done something entirely new.
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Echoing comments he shared with the Orlando Sentinel, Cook told TechCrunch's Matthew Panzarino that it is "pretty impressive" what Rosenfeld is accomplishing with code at such a young age, serving as a perfect example of why he believes coding education should begin in the early grades of school. I'm glad that's settled
To their credit, none of the first five dev jobs I looked at on the Apple job site required a degree.
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He's right. 4 years of learning gives you not even a bit of proficiency... You also need a lot of experience in real life...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Quote: I don't think a four-year degree is necessary to be proficient at coding
No sh*t Sherlock. That was true 30 years ago and remains true today.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Now you just need 30+ years experience
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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MadMyche wrote: Now you just need 30+ years experience
in a 10 years technology 
at least to apply to some jobs
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Today, we’re excited to introduce GitHub Package Registry, a package management service that makes it easy to publish public or private packages next to your source code. In case your package needs registering
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The times, they are a-changin'—even bits of Windows will be open source. "There is this thing called the GPL, which we disagree with … nobody can ever improve the software."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: even bits of Windows will be open source
But only those parts, that doesn't cause 'red-face'...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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War in the Cloud: The Rocke and Pascha group are at each other's throats competing for vulnerable systems. I guess it's too much to hope for that they wipe each other out?
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After more than ten years in tech, in a range of different environments, from Fortune 500 companies, to startups, I’ve finally come to realize that most businesss and developers simply don’t revolve around whatever’s trending on HN. We're not all re-writing in Go/Rust as serverless with GAN assist?
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