The journey of learning never ends for a developer!
When you need to pick up a new programming language, library, framework or any dev related skill, how do you approach it?
I personally prefer to just pick a project related to what I'm learning and build up knowledge that way. I find I can’t spend too long on tutorials and I don’t truly start to understand unless I’m working on a project (even if it’s a made up project just to use what I’m learning).
So what's your preferred learning method?
A post I wrote a while back explains some various ways developers can use for practice.
Top comments (2)
I used to think I should jump straight into practice immediately. But it's hard to inject it into real-world production-ready development processes. That's why my current learning framework is time-capped and very specific:
You can find details here:
How to investigate technical solutions
Kate ・ May 23 '20 ・ 4 min read
Thanks for sharing your method, its very systematic!