Learning how to learn as a developer

Hello everybody!

Learning is a big part of our job, as developers. There is a lot to know to be productive, more efficient, and more effective.

But it can be difficult to know what to learn, how to learn it, and how to apply the new knowledge in different situations.

Over the years, I spent a lot of time trying to improve my learning techniques. Now, I would like to share them with you with this article: https://thevaluable.dev/learning-developer-efficiently-effectively/

Any feedback is welcome!

tl;dr:

• Learning includes understanding, remembering, and applying the knowledge in different situations (transfer).
• Ask yourself these important questions: why do you want to learn? How much do you want to learn? What do you want to achieve with t11his knowledge?
• Having an environment free of distraction and applying the 5 minutes rule can help you to get started.
• Choose the learning material considered good by a majority of your peers.
• Go through it, and try to practice the knowledge gained as soon as you can.
• Test your new knowledge to be sure you really learned it, and to bring the new knowledge in your long term memory.
• Seek internal and external feedback. Train yourself to squeeze as much as you can from them.