I can find information a lot quicker from a manual or article as opposed to watching a video.
For those bemoaning college degrees, this is what they're for: to teach you how to learn from written materials, including reference materials, without lectures, video or otherwise. The value of college classes is to expose you to introductory course after introductory course, until you internalize the pattern of how humans tend to organize information. Once you've learned that, you can learn anything, because you know how to read. Not the mechanical interpretation of alphabets or logograms and words and sentences, but how to find textbooks and reference works and how to understand them once you've found them. "Learning to learn" is about setting up expectations and establishing patterns for dealing with masses of unfamiliar material in a productive way.
Learning from the written word is the hallmark of an educated mind. If you can't learn without the incredibly low bandwidth method of human speech chattering away at you, deeply technical subjects like programming probably aren't for you. 99.999% of all human knowledge is inaccessible to someone who can not read. There aren't enough waking hours in a human lifetime to listen to the spoken version of the intricate details of even one human technical specialization, and odds are spoken versions don't even exist for most of that material. Incidentally, this is why the invention of the braille computer terminal was one of the greatest empowering mechanisms for blind people. It opened up a part of the world that was completely inaccessible otherwise, for lack of braille printed editions.
'"Learning to learn" is about setting up expectations and establishing patterns for dealing with masses of unfamiliar material...'
I usually pussyfoot around the issue, eye it up, have a long stare at the problem, get distracted and wake up hungover, until its a reasonable emergency to finish, then panic work through the night, computer science 101
I really hated lectures in college. If you went to lecture, and didn't read the book, it was never enough to help you pass. If you read the book, you didn't need the lecture. What you needed most was the study group where you could interactively ask whatever questions remained and get help understanding difficult concepts. Lectures and videos don't do that. Watch enough of them and you might chance upon the one person that explains some difficult concept in just the right way for you to grok it, b
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I can find information a lot quicker from a manual or article as opposed to watching a video.
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I can find information a lot quicker from a manual or article as opposed to watching a video.
For those bemoaning college degrees, this is what they're for: to teach you how to learn from written materials, including reference materials, without lectures, video or otherwise. The value of college classes is to expose you to introductory course after introductory course, until you internalize the pattern of how humans tend to organize information. Once you've learned that, you can learn anything, because you know how to read. Not the mechanical interpretation of alphabets or logograms and words and sentences, but how to find textbooks and reference works and how to understand them once you've found them. "Learning to learn" is about setting up expectations and establishing patterns for dealing with masses of unfamiliar material in a productive way.
Learning from the written word is the hallmark of an educated mind. If you can't learn without the incredibly low bandwidth method of human speech chattering away at you, deeply technical subjects like programming probably aren't for you. 99.999% of all human knowledge is inaccessible to someone who can not read. There aren't enough waking hours in a human lifetime to listen to the spoken version of the intricate details of even one human technical specialization, and odds are spoken versions don't even exist for most of that material. Incidentally, this is why the invention of the braille computer terminal was one of the greatest empowering mechanisms for blind people. It opened up a part of the world that was completely inaccessible otherwise, for lack of braille printed editions.
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Most humans do not know how to learn, or learned how to learn nor do teachers teach it.
I have usually a good memory, that is all - I also do not know how to learn.
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This ^^^^.
I really hated lectures in college. If you went to lecture, and didn't read the book, it was never enough to help you pass. If you read the book, you didn't need the lecture. What you needed most was the study group where you could interactively ask whatever questions remained and get help understanding difficult concepts. Lectures and videos don't do that. Watch enough of them and you might chance upon the one person that explains some difficult concept in just the right way for you to grok it, b