You Will Be Memorizing Things
I’m warning you ahead of time that I’m going to make you memorize things
right away. This is the quickest way to get you capable at something, but for
some people memorization is painful. Just fight through it and do it anyway.
Memorization is an important skill in learning things, so you should get over
your fear of it.
Here’s how you memorize things:
• Tell yourself you will do it. Don’t try to find tricks or easy ways out of it,
just sit down and do it.
• Write what you want to memorize on some index cards. Put one half of
what you need to learn on one side, then another half on the other side.
• Every day for about 15 to 30 minutes, drill yourself on the index cards,
trying to recall each one. Put any cards you don’t get right into a different
pile, just drill those cards until you get bored, then try the whole deck and
see if you improve.
• Before you go to bed, drill just the cards you got wrong for about 5
minutes, then go to sleep.
There are other techniques, like you can write what you need to learn on a sheet
of paper, laminate it, then stick it to the wall of your shower. While you’re
bathing, drill the knowledge without looking, and when you get stuck glance at it
to refresh your memory.
If you do this every day, you should be able to memorize most things I tell you
to memorize in about a week to a month. Once you do, nearly everything else
becomes easier and intuitive, which is the purpose of memorization. It’s not to
teach you abstract concepts but rather to ingrain the basics so that they are
intuitive and you don’t have to think about them. Once you’ve memorized these
basics they stop being speed bumps preventing you from learning more
advanced abstract concepts.
*Learn Python 3 The Hard Way
A Very Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly
Beautiful World of Computers and Code Zed A. Shaw
What’s a directory?
It’s a folder. Folder and directory are the same thing, and they’re
used interchangeably. When you open your file browser on your computer to
graphically find files, you are walking through folders. Those folders are the
exact same things as these “directories” we’re going to work with.
I’m warning you ahead of time that I’m going to make you memorize things
right away. This is the quickest way to get you capable at something, but for
some people memorization is painful. Just fight through it and do it anyway.
Memorization is an important skill in learning things, so you should get over
your fear of it.
Here’s how you memorize things:
• Tell yourself you will do it. Don’t try to find tricks or easy ways out of it,
just sit down and do it.
• Write what you want to memorize on some index cards. Put one half of
what you need to learn on one side, then another half on the other side.
• Every day for about 15 to 30 minutes, drill yourself on the index cards,
trying to recall each one. Put any cards you don’t get right into a different
pile, just drill those cards until you get bored, then try the whole deck and
see if you improve.
• Before you go to bed, drill just the cards you got wrong for about 5
minutes, then go to sleep.
There are other techniques, like you can write what you need to learn on a sheet
of paper, laminate it, then stick it to the wall of your shower. While you’re
bathing, drill the knowledge without looking, and when you get stuck glance at it
to refresh your memory.
If you do this every day, you should be able to memorize most things I tell you
to memorize in about a week to a month. Once you do, nearly everything else
becomes easier and intuitive, which is the purpose of memorization. It’s not to
teach you abstract concepts but rather to ingrain the basics so that they are
intuitive and you don’t have to think about them. Once you’ve memorized these
basics they stop being speed bumps preventing you from learning more
advanced abstract concepts.
*Learn Python 3 The Hard Way
A Very Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly
Beautiful World of Computers and Code Zed A. Shaw
What’s a directory?
It’s a folder. Folder and directory are the same thing, and they’re
used interchangeably. When you open your file browser on your computer to
graphically find files, you are walking through folders. Those folders are the
exact same things as these “directories” we’re going to work with.
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