I have finally managed to get myself to implement spaced learning.
I have a midterm on Saturday on Haskell. I had so much urge to spend one long session doing a lot of exercises with Haskell But I really wanted to to give it a try since I am now more confident that it actually helps.
So a complete a problem or two each day before my exam And I truly believe that it actually helped, I feel like I’m learning when I try to test myself with my previous knowledge
In other words, spaced repetition paired up with self-testing worked like a charm for me. Especially for things like learning a new programming language or paradigm
I have taken these learnings and applied them to my study plan
I started to challenge myself in the middle of the day. While for example, taking a shower to remember things I learned the previous day just to keep that information still active (aka the neural networks still firing)
At the end of the day as well, I write down and reflect on what were the biggest things I learned in terms of technical things and also soft things
more mindful of the
regarding my study plan though, to say the least, It did not go as planned. Though it might sound like a bad thing, I believe that it was for the better. One thing that this whole project has helped me get better at is my ability to find things that are distracting me and negatively affecting my mental clarity. The more I went through the week the more I discovered things. Of the things that were ‘automatable’, I decided to start finding ways to automate running a script every certain interval. I thought that would be a good simple start for the week’s plan but little did I know that there’s a lot of nuanced aspects to running scripts in that automated environment compared to running it manually