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Discussion on: How do you learn best?

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Christian Vasquez

I love making small projects whenever I want to add a new functionality in a particular project.

I'm the kind of person that is constantly closing unused tabs on my browser and I just like having a clean and more predictable codebase to play around before adding it into to the real project.

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Josh Pullen

Nice! So a sort of combo deal between small (demo) and large projects?

I'm curious which types of resources you find most useful in helping to learn something new.

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Christian Vasquez

I'm kind of a course addict, I was really into gaming and what mostly motivates me to keep playing a game are the achievements other than being "The Best" at it. So having websites like Udacity and Udemy with tons of courses with valuable information and seeing how each video/exercise would increase the progress bar keeps me going.

But this also can get out of control and find yourself in a endless loop of learning but not actually building stuff with what you learn, so you end up forgetting most of it.