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Reading Comprehension

Briggs Elsperger on February 12, 2022

Reading comprehension is a developer’s closest friend. Most of the information you will use comes from text documentation. Strengthening reading sk...
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Drew Ronsman

For me watching videos is not a good way for me to learn programming. I waych videos primarily to get an overview or a crash course into the subject primarily fireship 100sec of code which is really good.

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mekbib

This is good to know. When i learned coding for the first time, I tried to memorise almost everything because i thought pro developers could recall everything form memory. Now that I've let go of that, I have more time to focus on the core things.
this is a very concise and good post. keep it going

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Birdie Ou • Edited

Reading documentation is so very important. I need to sit myself down to do some reading seriously first.

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Michelle Renee

The ReadMe project on GitHub is always looking for people to help with documentation. It's a great way to help contribute to opensource, learn more about and get more experience in documentation, and as well as learn MarkDown which is actually easy to get the hang of! Here's a link if you're interested. github.com/MarcDiethelm/contributi...

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Daniel Fürst

The link to learning styles is very helpful! A myth I have seen a lot of people believe in, myself included. 😄

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Brad

The note about "being a visual learner" is great. It is too easy to "turn your brain off" when watching a video. Great advice there!

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Antony E

Awesome piece as I have been taking time off to find what are the best learning strategies to succeed with TOP curriculum. Am curious to find out how others' experience has been with using a tool like Anki. The reason for it is to develop active recall habits while learning.

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ifeomawrites

I wouldn't say I have a "learning style" but I do prefer to read whenever learning something. It feels more engaging, less distracting and I'm able to retain facts better.

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Hongbo Wei

Practicing is way better for me to understand and master skills than just merely watching videos.

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Jason Robinson

thank you for the post as well as the link to the study. Very informative

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Thielison Alves

Excellent post! Thank you.