Show HN: SkillPress – Learn JavaScript via spaced repetition and active recall

Re:Show HN: SkillPress – Learn JavaScript via spaced repetit... by tomxor on Sunday July 24, 2022 @10:56AM (#32214084)

Sorry but this will not help you learn JavaScript.

I am sure it will help you remember built-ins and terminology, but using PLs is far more than a human memory game, I know JS pretty thoroughly and cannot recall every Math or Array method, it's just not very important. If you want to get better at any PL, write it, write it, write it.

If you don't know what to write, I'd recommend heading over to somewhere like rossetacode and picking an unimplemented problem you like the look of.

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Re:Show HN: SkillPress – Learn JavaScript via spaced repetit... by taccicardia on Sunday July 24, 2022 @11:02AM (#32214137)

Yeah, a lot of this just looks like trivia. There are a couple of very rudimentary “coding problems,” but I’m unsure how useful this would be. Writing code >>>> answering trivia questions about terminology.

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Re:Show HN: SkillPress – Learn JavaScript via spaced repetit... by delabroj on Sunday July 24, 2022 @11:17AM (#32214289)

I agree - the best way to learn to write code is to practice writing code. After you learn the basic terminology the course progresses on to more and more advanced coding problems.

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Re:Show HN: SkillPress – Learn JavaScript via spaced repetit... by taccicardia on Sunday July 24, 2022 @11:22AM (#32214339)

For clarity, are advanced problems something like “write the output of this anonymous function” or does it teach this concept before asking the question? Is this supposed to be adjunct to a more holistic course?

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Re:Show HN: SkillPress – Learn JavaScript via spaced repetit... by delabroj on Sunday July 24, 2022 @11:38AM (#32214483)

The course leans pretty heavily toward active recall - there are a lot of high quality tutorials out there, so I wanted this one to focus more on maximizing retention instead of serving as a gentle introduction.

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Re:Show HN: SkillPress – Learn JavaScript via spaced repetit... by taccicardia on Sunday July 24, 2022 @01:49PM (#32215852)

That could make some sense. To be clear I don’t think it’s a bad idea, just seems like this is for a very specific type of person.

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Re:Show HN: SkillPress – Learn JavaScript via spaced repetit... by abeyer on Sunday July 24, 2022 @03:53PM (#32217032)

I think what you're asking about is more along the lines of execute program[0]. It combines both the initial presentation of concepts and the follow on spaced repetition.

[0] https://www.executeprogram.com/

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Re:Show HN: SkillPress – Learn JavaScript via spaced repetit... by akudha on Sunday July 24, 2022 @12:16PM (#32214853)

I was looking at some human language learning material. One of the exercises in it was to rearrange jumbled words into a meaningful sentence. That got me thinking, what sort of exercises can we borrow from human language learning to learn programming?

A ten line jumbled function that the learner needs to order correctly? A small function with missing lines or wrong conditions that the learner can fix, to get the function working correctly? None of these are substitutes for writing code of course, but these can be fun exercises?

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Re:Show HN: SkillPress – Learn JavaScript via spaced repetit... by pessimizer on Sunday July 24, 2022 @02:37PM (#32216314)

For me, those things are too complicated for a card. I want my cards to drill one thing. I might even want five cards to drill one thing five times, but with five different contexts. I want them to help me retain facts, like a syntax, a library, configuration, keywords, and enumerations/flags/switches with arbitrary names.

Programming practice is what I do after I have (or while I'm putting) these facts at my fingertips.

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Re:Show HN: SkillPress – Learn JavaScript via spaced repetit... by delabroj on Sunday July 24, 2022 @11:15AM (#32214266)

Thanks for checking it out. The course starts with the basics, so if you are already proficient at JS you would get less value from it.

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