Chapter 13. Slowing Down to Learn How to Code Faster

Nowadays, it seems like everyone wants to do things faster. We want to pay without taking out a credit card or cash. Social media lets us share images and videos from our lives in a split second. And we get frustrated if Netflix takes more than 3 seconds to start streaming our latest TV show series binge. However, if you want to learn how to code faster, I'm going to present an odd idea: go slower.

This may seem like a counterintuitive concept. After all, don't coding bootcamps, even DevCamp where I teach, tell you how you can learn how to code in a few months? Well yes, and research shows that 8 weeks is a powerful number when it comes to learning. The Navy Seal training program specifically ...

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