Re:Ask HN: How do you learn by doing?
by sitkack on Sunday November 27, 2016 @07:08PM
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Came to say the same thing.
Flow [1]
Proper task breakdown, constant self reflection on what you know and what you don't know. This is harder at the beginning that it is after you have some context.
Design the smallest possible experiment to understand a concept, even simpler than that. The goal is understanding, not the complexity of the task. These can take from 5 minute to 4 hours or longer.
Integration and unit tests are excellent (or an analog in the non-computer domain you are trying to master). You need to prove to yourself that the knowledge is correct.
Seek peers and exposure to new ideas, techniques, context. You need to be continually building context, otherwise you won't know how to process or anchor new information.
Also take a look at some books on learning theory by Piaget [2] [3], Papert [4]
Flow [1]
Proper task breakdown, constant self reflection on what you know and what you don't know. This is harder at the beginning that it is after you have some context.
Design the smallest possible experiment to understand a concept, even simpler than that. The goal is understanding, not the complexity of the task. These can take from 5 minute to 4 hours or longer.
Integration and unit tests are excellent (or an analog in the non-computer domain you are trying to master). You need to prove to yourself that the knowledge is correct.
Seek peers and exposure to new ideas, techniques, context. You need to be continually building context, otherwise you won't know how to process or anchor new information.
Also take a look at some books on learning theory by Piaget [2] [3], Papert [4]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)
[2] http://viking.coe.uh.edu/~ichen/ebook/et-it/cognitiv.htm
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_...
[4] https://tltl.stanford.edu/content/seymour-papert-s-legacy-th...