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If you want to learn how to program, surely you would go asking the software engineering community how to do it? But rarely do we pay attention to how the peopl
by tw1010 9y ago
If you want to learn how to program, surely you would go asking the software engineering community how to do it? But rarely do we pay attention to how the people who're serious about reading and writing say you're actually supposed to read. I thought I knew how to read a book. But then I read the Well-Educated Mind and realized that I had went about it all wrong. English majors read books way differently than most people do. It is crucially important for retention and understanding of a book to actually write down thorough notes about it.
- kentt 9y agoThanks for the book recommendation. I'm going to check it out.
- sn9 9y agoJust from looking at the description, it seems to cover the same territory as Mortimer Adler's How to Read a Book. I'd read Adler's book first, but reading two different presentations of what might be the same idea is better than reading only one.