Saturday, November 3, 2012

Study hacks

Another learning-support article, by the guy who worked through an MIT CS BS in one year, outlining how he did it.  The key insight I see is the Feynman technique: for a given idea or method you don't understand, write down a lecture on it (an article) from scratch.  When you get to a point where you're stuck, you've identified what you don't understand.  Study it in more detail.

The idea of the "learning support" thread is really not too germane to this blog (except insofar as it's a natural target for a programming system that purports to be semantically motivated).  It's motivated by two main things, though: first, supporting human performance is what programming is for, and second, understanding human learning is part of understanding semantics.

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