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Ask HN: What learning tools are fun, have bite-sized chunks, and use exercises?
Recently, I've created a daily habit of using these three learning tools:
- Simply Piano (https://www.hellosimply.com/simply-piano)
- Exercism (https://exercism.org/tracks/elixir)
- Math Academy (https://www.mathacademy.com/)
I find it's easy to use each of them every day, because:
1. I don't feel reluctant to get started, because the start of each session is interesting.
2. I can have a useful session in as little as 15 minutes (although longer is better).
3. The exercises make me feel like I'm actually learning.
Other tools don't have the same effect:
- Duolingo fails on #3
- Anki (which I just started using to learn the Gujarati alphabet) fails on #1
I'd love to find other learning tools that give me the same feeling as the three I mentioned. Do you know of any, for any domain?
- leansensei 4y agoExercism is great
- psyklic 4y agoBrilliant (https://brilliant.org https://brilliant.org). It particularly excels at math but also has great physics and CS courses.
- rahimnathwani 4y agoI really like Brilliant! It's unusual to have great content and great user experience. I'm curious whether you've found the exercises are enough to ensure you've really learned the content?
- psyklic 4y ago> I'm curious whether you've found the exercises are enough to ensure you've really learned the content? IMO if a student is motivated to learn, there is plenty of interesting content to think about deeply. However, if a student is not motivated then more exercises are needed. I've noticed recently that newer courses now include extra problem sets, so I assume Brilliant is working on this!
- muzani 4y agohttps://freecodecamp.org https://freecodecamp.org