"we usually read when we want to edit... That hacking produces better comprehension than passive, linear reading fits with what we know about learning... solid

"we usually read when we want to edit... That hacking produces better comprehension than passive, linear reading fits with what we know about learning... solid understanding emerges from active exploration, critical examination, repetition, and synthesis. Hacking beats passive reading on three out of four of these criteria." This doesn't just apply to learning programming languages - also learning Chinese. https://pingtype.github.io/docs/failed.html https://pingtype.github.io/docs/failed.html I've had much more success since writing my own tool to translate the text I'm interested in, rather than being spoon-fed some patronising phrases to recite from a textbook.