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Hey.
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Well done on achieving yet another module.
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You're doing really really good and I'm here cheering for you all the time
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even--
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even though you can't see it, I'm actually here just cheering for you.
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Now I want to talk about the idea of space repetition.
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Now there's a lot of research that's gone into how humans learn and one of the most well tested techniques
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is space repetition.
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It's the idea that if you learn something just once, you're probably going to forget it.
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But if you learn something and then you come back to it in a week to review it and then a month to review
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it and then a year to review it then that knowledge is yours.
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You own it.
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So it's the same with programming.
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If you've learned a new concept let's say if else statements and you never use it again.
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You've just heard how it works
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you've seen what it does and then you never actually use it?
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You're not going to remember it.
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You're not going to remember how to use it the next time you come across it.
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You're not going to remember to use it when you actually need to
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in a program of your own.
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So as a part of the course I try really hard to add in more repetition and I know sometimes it feels
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like it's repetitive
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right?
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But you know if that is the case you can always listen at 2X speed.
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You can change the toggle of the player so that I speak much faster and you can get through more of the
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content
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if you're just reviewing it. But it's there for a reason. It's to try and remind you of the concept, to try
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and enact this kind of space repetition.
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But you can also do it yourself like if you keep a list of the things that you've done and at regular
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intervals increasing intervals, say a day, a week, a month, you just come back to those concepts just review
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it once more.
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You will be able to keep that knowledge in your long term memory and turn it into a skill rather than
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kind of like you know when you cram for exams and you just learn everything once and then like a week
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down the line, you forgotten everything like this is true for me.
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I've crammed-- firstly I've had so time where it feels like it's impossible to study everything in that amount
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of time.
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I remember when I was doing my end of med school exams I had four days of full time exams.
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It was like 9 to 5 with an hour lunch break of just exams on everything from like biochemistry to clinical
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medicine to like just everything under the sun.
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And I had to cram. I crammed so much knowledge and you know not like you know let alone now like many
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years on, but even like a week down the line it was all gone.
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It was like as if like there was no point doing it, doing that like cramming. So review the crux of
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the topics that you learn on a regular basis. Try to use it in some sort of format like make a small
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program or make a small quiz for yourself or feel something really really simple that you've already
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built in the course but just do it by yourself.
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Those are the moments when you're going to level up your skill and those are way more important than
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listening to me like I'm just going to say like if you do the work and you actually write the programs,
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that's really where it's most important.
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So have a go at doing that and I'm going to be here continuing to cheer on you in the background.