> SECRET SAUCE HERE: The key here was to actually write the program even if I was sure I had nothing to learn from it because the feature in question was so con

> SECRET SAUCE HERE: The key here was to actually write the program even if I was sure I had nothing to learn from it because the feature in question was so conceptually simple: you think you know something, but then when you go to actually type it in, you find out whether know it was well as you thought you did. This is what I've done in my admittedly small time of programming. I have Learn Python the Hard Way and whenever I'm in between my personal projects, I grab one of the beginning chapters and just redo it. Rote memorization is not easy for me, but the more I do something over and over, the more engrained it is and the easier it is for me to recall and build on later for different things.