Playwright or PyTorch First? What Beginners Should Pick

Playwright — Learning Path:
Week 1: Setup, selectors, first test
Week 2: Assertions, fixtures, hooks
Week 3: Page objects, API testing
Week 4: CI with GitHub Actions

Daily focus:
• 1 hour theory + docs
• 2 hours writing and debugging tests
• 30 min reading Playwright patterns
• 30 min reviewing your code

Week 1 Review:
□ Can I install Playwright?
□ Can I write reliable selectors?
□ Can I run my first test?

Week 2 Review:
□ Do I understand assertions?
□ Can I use fixtures?
□ Can I use hooks (beforeEach)?

Week 3 Review:
□ Can I implement Page Object Model?
□ Can I test APIs?
□ Can I mock network requests?

Week 4 Review:
□ Can I run tests in GitHub Actions?
□ Do I generate readable reports?
□ Are tests documented?

PyTorch — Learning Path:
Week 1: Tensors, operations, GPU basics
Week 2: Autograd, nn.Module, loss functions
Week 3: DataLoader, optimizers, training loop
Week 4: End-to-end model project

Daily focus:
• 1 hour theory + docs
• 2 hours coding in notebooks
• 30 min reading PyTorch patterns
• 30 min reviewing your code

Week 1 Review:
□ Can I create tensors with different shapes?
□ Do I understand tensor operations?
□ Can I move tensors to GPU?

Week 2 Review:
□ Do I understand autograd?
□ Can I build a model with nn.Module?
□ Can I compute loss?

Week 3 Review:
□ Can I use DataLoader?
□ Do I understand optimizers?
□ Can I write a training loop?

Week 4 Review:
□ Have I built an end-to-end model?
□ Is it evaluated and documented?
□ Is it on GitHub?

Playwright vs PyTorch — Side by Side:
Playwright:
  Purpose: Test web apps
  Output: Test suites
  Role: QA Automation Engineer
  Tool: Code editor + browser

PyTorch:
  Purpose: Build and train models
  Output: Trained model
  Role: ML Engineer
  Tool: Python + notebooks

Decision Guide — Playwright vs PyTorch:
Want to test web apps? → Playwright
Want to build AI models? → PyTorch
Want to automate anything? → Playwright
Want to work on AI? → PyTorch
Already know JavaScript? → Playwright
Already know Python + math? → PyTorch
Not sure yet? → Playwright first (faster wins)

Action Plan — Which First?
Step 1 — Clarify your goal: test or build AI?
Step 2 — If testing: learn JavaScript, then Playwright.
Step 3 — If AI: learn Python, then PyTorch.
Step 4 — If both: Playwright first, then PyTorch.
Step 5 — Build a project: test app or train model.
Step 6 — Document and share on GitHub.
Step 7 — Apply for roles that match your path.

Portfolio Review — What Hiring Managers Want:
☐ A real project (test suite or trained model)
☐ Clean, well-documented code
☐ Test reports or model evaluation metrics
☐ README with problem, approach, results
☐ CI pipeline (Playwright) or training notebook (PyTorch)
☐ Git history showing iterative work
☐ A short writeup or blog post