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A beginners trick I learned way too late in the game of learning to code: repetition repetition repetition


The biggest issue I've come across in learning to code is that no matter what tutorial I've tried, there simple were never enough examples to work through to become proficient in whatever I was learning at the time. When I bring this up, it's generally met with "you just want to be spoon fed" or "you need to build stuff! Go and build" by programmers.

I've learned how to fix this issue. It's extremely simple:

Take the last exercise you were shown/taught and repeat it three times.

1st iteration is to make sure you understand what the hell's going on and can repeat it, do you understand the functions, the loops, the getters, setters and constructs? You won't understand because you'll need to keep referring to your last attempt, hence doing it two more times.

2nd iteration is to do the same project again but this time without referring to old code at all. It's not about memorizing. It's about understanding what you want to do next and what tool you need to slap in your code to get there and knowing how to do it...well, a little memorizing comes in handy but at a certain point you're no longer memorizing and you're more just 'knowing it'. Can you clean up your code a bit? Can you DRY it out some?

3rd iteration is to build on it. Can you add another property to the Class? If it's HTML can you add 6 columns with images instead of just 2? Just add shit to the project with what you already know. Add stuff that you learned 2-3 lessons ago but haven't touched since then.

After doing an exercise three times you'll go from "Monkey See, Monkey Do" all the way to "Monkey Know!"

Compliments of the season guys,

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Thanks.

Compliments of the season guys,

I'm building a web platform that aims to help music studio owners rent out their studios to artistes and for artistes to find music studios in their area. Think of it like an Airbnb for music studios.

I'm still doing research to know if people have this problem I'm trying to solve so I don't waste my time building something nobody needs. I've already begun coding and sketching out some basic functionality.

If you're interested or you know someone that might be please follow this link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeJxd4PlgepLE-2MHM9XD38re-RScKHTuihdsFvIJwZGXf2fg/viewform?usp=sf_link

If there a lot of interested parties, I'll go ahead and finish it up. wink

Compliments of the season guys,

I'm building a web platform that aims to help music studio owners rent out their studios to artistes and for artistes to find music studios in their area. Think of it like an Airbnb for music studios.

I'm still doing research to know if people have this problem I'm trying to solve so I don't waste my time building something nobody needs. I've already begun coding and sketching out some basic functionality.

If you're interested or you know someone that might be please follow this link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeJxd4PlgepLE-2MHM9XD38re-RScKHTuihdsFvIJwZGXf2fg/viewform?usp=sf_link

If there a lot of interested parties, I'll go ahead and finish it up.