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Many people will give you computer or programming advice, but I'm going to give you advice I wish I had when I enrolled a decade ago. Learn how to learn. Seri
by thenerdhead 5y ago
Many people will give you computer or programming advice, but I'm going to give you advice I wish I had when I enrolled a decade ago.
Learn how to learn.
Seriously. Pickup a course and a couple books about how to learn. At the time I went to college, an upcoming author named "Cal Newport" had a blog called StudyHacks and wrote a couple books about how to get straight As and win in college. Those two books alone made the difference of a bored high schooler graduating with a high GPA and now working in big tech.
My recommendations would be Barbara Oakley's recent books or course, Cal Newports older works and deep work concepts, and any habit book like Atomic Habits / Tiny Habits / etc.
Work on your system. Have a plan, iterate regularly, and most importantly do your own work. Cheating only cheats the future version of yourself.
- BossingAround 5y agoI feel like people who say "learn how to learn" and then mention Oakley, or something like atomic habits are confusing learning and habits. Learning how to learn and learning how to make positive habits are two entirely different things. Oakley's course is a few feel good pieces of advice that could be summed up as "you can do it" (with a little bit of a tongue in cheek of course). You won't learn programming by reading a Java textbook 5 times a day for the next 2 years.
- thenerdhead 5y agoThey are separate things. Learn about spaced repetition, fast/slow brain, interleaving, etc. (Learning) Learn about how to make things obvious, attractive, easier, and satisfying. (Habits) It may be confusing since they have overlap themselves.