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Re: Ask HN: Do you have a process or a framework to learn specific skills quickly?

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Post by lostinenigma » Tue, Aug 03, 2021, 9:31 AM UTC

mickaelP38 wrote: post #46

aasasd wrote: post #29

Some years ago I learned to touch-type in a month, at twenty minutes a day—though of course actually getting used to it took some months more. Ever since, I'm struggling to recreate the same approach in different topics. I used the app TIPP10, a completely no-nonsense program that just presents you with progressive exercises, rates your performance, and crucially, shows how far you're from the end goal. So I just cla…

I learned touch typing some 15 years ago with "The Typing of The Dead" from the dreamcast era. This game was full of drills to make you practice every aspect of typing: accuracy, speed, etc. Also it made you practiced your worst keys which was very helpful for me. I would have liked to see this kind of game used to learn other skills but I never saw anything like it. I also hoped that AI/deep learning could assists u…

I have been using keybr.com and I am my last letter. It is good and they claim to use AI/DL

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a process or a framework to learn specific skills quickly?

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Post by mapster » Tue, Aug 03, 2021, 1:53 PM UTC

If the objective is to learn a new skill or subject, it may be more effective to learn in a group setting w a subject matter expert for some subjects (i.e. Shakespeare or philosophy or law)

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a process or a framework to learn specific skills quickly?

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Post by sasukego » Sat, Aug 07, 2021, 3:54 AM UTC

sonabinu wrote: post #6

There’s a class on Coursera by Dr Barbara Oakley https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn ? It gives you a basic model for skill retention. You should modify the style to what works for you. I’ve successfully retained what I’ve revised and practiced

Paradoxically, you're telling to learn a course that tells you right way to learn something. So until then you don't know the right way to learn to learn the course you suggested.

xD nah I'm kidding. It's a good one.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a process or a framework to learn specific skills quickly?

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Post by sasukego » Sat, Aug 07, 2021, 4:02 AM UTC

I usually skim through it for the first time. Then I implement a todo app from blogs/documentation, or Clone something from GitHub. I understand the flow of data, once you have the mental map of the data flow, everything becomes easy, atleast in my case. Once I understand the data flow, I wing it. Once that's done, I'll dig through all the best practices of the technology, merits and demerits. I guess I do this for web technologies, maybe this can be ported to some other use case.

While learning a new language, I get my hands dirty, all you need is the logic, you can do a quick Google search oh how loops are implemented, how JSON parsing is done, etc.. After sometime you'll be familiar with it.

This is how I usually learn on the fly.