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Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career
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Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career

by Jordan Hudgens
July 2017
Beginner
302 pages
6h 22m
English
Packt Publishing
Audiobook available
Content preview from Skill Up: A Software Developer's Guide to Life and Career

The comprehensive study system

In addition to the process of reification, there are a number of other study strategies that research is showing to be more effective than traditional study practices. In their book Make It Stick, cognitive psychologists Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel give the following recommendations for studying:

  • When learning from a textbook, use the key terms from the back of each chapter to test yourself.
  • List out key terms and use each one in a paragraph; this will test to see if you understand a concept outside of the realm of how the textbook or instructor supplied it.
  • While reading new material, convert the main concepts into a series of questions and then go back and answer the questions when you're done reading the chapter. ...
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ISBN: 9781787287037