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Re: Show HN: SkillPress – Learn JavaScript via spaced repetition and active recall

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Post by pessimizer »

revskill wrote: post #24
codybontecou wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you feel the same way about learning a non-programming language?

Yes. The same. I natually learnt something for all i knew. Forced study is just like a hack, because your mind is still out of control.

You keep using the phrase "forced study" as a substitute for spaced repetition.

Nobody is forcing me to do spaced repetition, I enjoy it. It helps me remember things, and I get a dopamine hit when I remember stuff correctly. So instead of talking about "forced study," let us talk about spaced repetition.

Re: Show HN: SkillPress – Learn JavaScript via spaced repetition and active recall

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Post by revskill »

pessimizer wrote: post #31
revskill wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. The same. I natually learnt something for all i knew. Forced study is just like a hack, because your mind is still out of control.

You keep using the phrase "forced study" as a substitute for spaced repetition. Nobody is forcing me to do spaced repetition, I enjoy it. It helps me remember things, and I get a dopamine hit when I remember stuff correctly. So instead of talking about "forced study," let us talk about spaced repetition.

Yes, the point is, it forced you to remember things which i should forget instead. It's dangerous though. In real life, we should learn how to forget unnessesary stuffs ? Or, i think a better strategy is, it should remind me of something "new" that i'm not aware of instead. Remembering is two-sword knife.

Re: Show HN: SkillPress – Learn JavaScript via spaced repetition and active recall

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Post by pessimizer »

revskill wrote: post #32
pessimizer wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You keep using the phrase "forced study" as a substitute for spaced repetition. Nobody is forcing me to do spaced repetition, I enjoy it. It helps me remember things, and I get a dopamine hit when I remember stuff correctly. So instead of talking about "forced study," let us talk about spaced repetition.

Yes, the point is, it forced you to remember things which i should forget instead. It's dangerous though. In real life, we should learn how to forget unnessesary stuffs ? Or, i think a better strategy is, it should remind me of something "new" that i'm not aware of instead. Remembering is two-sword knife.

I think the point when you're learning programming or another language is to remember things long enough that you can recall them when you need to use them. Once you've got in the habit of using them, the cards don't matter anymore.

For example, to remember "almohada" in Spanish means pillow, I just think of a pillow shaped like the Alamo, and Tinkerbell, the fairy from Peter Pan, sitting in one of the windows ("hada" means fairy is Spanish.) I only need to remember this until I've talked or read enough about pillows in Spanish that I don't need the memory device. And as an example of that, "hada" is a word I don't need anything to remember, I just know it now. I don't remember why. I may have come up with some mental image, I may have had a flashcard, I may just remember the movie Veneno para las hadas because I like it.

It doesn't matter anymore, because it's now knowledge that I have.

Re: Show HN: SkillPress – Learn JavaScript via spaced repetition and active recall

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Post by abeyer »

taccicardia wrote: post #20
delabroj wrote: post #9

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The course leans pretty heavily toward active recall - there are a lot of high quality tutorials out there, so I wanted this one to focus more on maximizing retention instead of serving as a gentle introduction.

That could make some sense. To be clear I don’t think it’s a bad idea, just seems like this is for a very specific type of person.

I think what you're asking about is more along the lines of execute program[0]. It combines both the initial presentation of concepts and the follow on spaced repetition.

[0] https://www.executeprogram.com/

Re: Show HN: SkillPress – Learn JavaScript via spaced repetition and active recall

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Post by rsanek »

Replacing the "due card" count with a graph that visually shows the memory decay is brilliant. What I imagine being especially nice about this UI too is that it would do a much better job of adjusting to how much of your content is new vs. mature -- that is, your graph decays quite quickly if you are learning a bunch of new stuff recently, but decays more slowly if you haven't added anything new in a few weeks and just took a few days off. In Anki, both of these cases appear the same since you're just looking at a raw due count.

Some of the "Explore" examples look to be broken for me, even if I try to go to CodePen directly. For example, the card "a binary operator requires.." does not seem to have anything in the CodePen.

My own workflow is too locked into the Anki app itself but this is a great project, well done!

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