What’s your go-to method of learning a new development skill?

The journey of learning never ends for a developer!

When you need to pick up a new programming language, library, framework or any dev related skill, how do you approach it?

I personally prefer to just pick a project related to what I'm learning and build up knowledge that way. I find I can’t spend too long on tutorials and I don’t truly start to understand unless I’m working on a project (even if it’s a made up project just to use what I’m learning).

So what's your preferred learning method?

A post I wrote a while back explains some various ways developers can use for practice.

5 ways to help you practice coding

Fum ・ Nov 10 '20 ・ 5 min read

#beginners #codenewbie #productivity #programming

Comments

[Kate]

I used to think I should jump straight into practice immediately. But it's hard to inject it into real-world production-ready development processes. That's why my current learning framework is time-capped and very specific:

1. Gather & structure information on a very narrow topic
2. Share with someone else and filter out
3. Build proofs of concept to figure out some crucial details (practice phase)
4. Put together a summary for discussion and further actions.
5. Iterate

You can find details here:

How to investigate technical solutions

Kate ・ May 23 '20 ・ 4 min read

#career #softskills #productivity #techlead

[Fum]

Thanks for sharing your method, its very systematic!