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How creating a solid schedule of study helped me to learn more and effectively.

Thomas Cordeiro on May 05, 2019

In my journey of teaching myself how to code, I have faced (and still do) lots of problems and frustration that could be avoided if I had been more...
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Latheresienne

You're right. I also think that a long term sucess mist be planned. These days I am focusing on the pomodoro tachnique as it is more flexible than agile's methods I used to use (Scrum and XP). Planning is the key for long term success!
thanks for this great article

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Thomas Cordeiro

Thank you for you comment. Pomodoro technique works just fine for me, helps me keep focused.

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Latheresienne

It also works for me too. I am actually reading a book that is all about it. Just to make sure I get the best advantages of the method

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Thomas Cordeiro

what is it called?

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Andrei Gatej

Thanks for sharing!

I don’t think pomodoro technique would work for me. If I set 25 minutes to complete a task, while solving that task I would almost inevitably find some concept along the way that I’m not familiar with.

And I just can’t go further without grasping at least the basics of the concept. And that’s how 10 min of 25 have been spent on something else.

It’s not a bad thing, I’ve learnt something new, but my attempt of completing the task has kind of failed.

I’m still looking for a better way to organize myself. This post has definitely given me something to reflect on. Thanks!

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Thomas Cordeiro

Hi, I am glad you liked it. Well, that also happens to me, start a task and find a new concept or something new to learn and some of the time is spent on learning and not developing/executing the task.

I see this not a bad thing thou because, in the end, you are still working on the main subject and learning something that will help to finish the task.

When I started the Pomodoro technique I was more focused on the time really not being wasted and not so much on the task being done/completed. Maybe this approach will help you.

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Andrei Gatej

I subscribe to your idea. My main goal is actually to not waste any time.
But taking a break is sometimes needed in order to assimilate information. I’ll give pomodoro technique a try. Thanks!

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Thomas Cordeiro

Nice! Share your thoughts later..

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Lea Reimann 🦄

Mixing learning and exercising to a good extend is important too! But I guess you realised that already :-) I had to learn it the hard way - by watching a lot of videos without really getting much out of it. But now I'm all in for both and hopefully all the Python will stick in my brain!

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Thomas Cordeiro

Yes! you said it all "exercising is important". I do agree. How do you balance the learning and the exercise?
Python is my long (not so long) plan. I want to get more into Machine Learning and I think Python is the way I will follow.

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Michael Jäkel

Hi Thomas,

This is a nice reading. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!