Comments on: How do you Learn? http://www.flipflops.org/2007/03/13/how-do-you-learn/ Stuff Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:48:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Darfuria http://www.flipflops.org/2007/03/13/how-do-you-learn/#comment-1152 Darfuria Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:34:46 +0000 http://www.flipflops.org/2007/03/13/how-do-you-learn/#comment-1152 The way I learn things completely varies depending on how my mind is working at the time. Sometimes I will be able to read something, pick it up and do it from then on. Other times I will see something an adapt it, going about it in a slightly different way but producing the same results. Other times I'll grasp something when someone shows me how to do it. Then there are the times when I sit and read, and watch, and can't get my head around something no matter what I do. So I just end up asking really stupid questions all the time. Crazy how the brain works. The way I learn things completely varies depending on how my mind is working at the time. Sometimes I will be able to read something, pick it up and do it from then on. Other times I will see something an adapt it, going about it in a slightly different way but producing the same results. Other times I’ll grasp something when someone shows me how to do it. Then there are the times when I sit and read, and watch, and can’t get my head around something no matter what I do. So I just end up asking really stupid questions all the time.

Crazy how the brain works.

]]> By: Flipflops http://www.flipflops.org/2007/03/13/how-do-you-learn/#comment-1155 Flipflops Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:30:23 +0000 http://www.flipflops.org/2007/03/13/how-do-you-learn/#comment-1155 I have to say, that I am definately a book person. Web pages are all very well, but when you need to get a handle on something right at the begining, there is nothing better that good typography on paper. I actually find it quite hard to read large amounts of text on a web page, but more than that the key reason for me is that often you want to sit on a sofa, a deckchair, a bus. You can a have a book strewn with bookmarks, fingers in on various pages. You can scribble in the margin, you can lay it face down on the table. For me in many ways, the book is the ultimate piece of design. It is perfect (sure you get crap books)... anyway I have a bit of a book obsession (still much healthier than a Britney Spears obsession I guess). (Talking Programming etc.) Once I've got the hang of something from paper, then I like to dive in and set up dev servers and try things out start doing the tutorials and then abandon them for something <em>I</em> want to do... I have to say, that I am definately a book person. Web pages are all very well, but when you need to get a handle on something right at the begining, there is nothing better that good typography on paper.

I actually find it quite hard to read large amounts of text on a web page, but more than that the key reason for me is that often you want to sit on a sofa, a deckchair, a bus. You can a have a book strewn with bookmarks, fingers in on various pages. You can scribble in the margin, you can lay it face down on the table.

For me in many ways, the book is the ultimate piece of design. It is perfect (sure you get crap books)… anyway I have a bit of a book obsession (still much healthier than a Britney Spears obsession I guess).

(Talking Programming etc.) Once I’ve got the hang of something from paper, then I like to dive in and set up dev servers and try things out start doing the tutorials and then abandon them for something I want to do…

]]> By: Darfuria http://www.flipflops.org/2007/03/13/how-do-you-learn/#comment-1158 Darfuria Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:44:52 +0000 http://www.flipflops.org/2007/03/13/how-do-you-learn/#comment-1158 The only situation when I like to learn things from the web is when it's a simple bit of code, or there's an actual video (Captivate) tutorial going on. Otherwise, I agree, I don't like reading lots of informative text on the web. Leisure reading (such as blog posts) is okay, though. As you well know, I find it quite difficult to learn mass amounts of programming from books. When I read a book I like my imagination to get involved, and I vividly become the character(s) I'm reading about - which is obviously a very difficult thing to do when you're reading about programming. I find myself very easily distracted (short attention spans suck), and don't get very sucked-in, when reading pages and pages of text about something I wish I could just <i>do</i>. The only situation when I like to learn things from the web is when it’s a simple bit of code, or there’s an actual video (Captivate) tutorial going on. Otherwise, I agree, I don’t like reading lots of informative text on the web. Leisure reading (such as blog posts) is okay, though.

As you well know, I find it quite difficult to learn mass amounts of programming from books. When I read a book I like my imagination to get involved, and I vividly become the character(s) I’m reading about - which is obviously a very difficult thing to do when you’re reading about programming.

I find myself very easily distracted (short attention spans suck), and don’t get very sucked-in, when reading pages and pages of text about something I wish I could just do.

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