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Hey, good job, you've done another module.

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This is awesome.

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I hope you'll keep continuing this momentum, and just continue along the course.

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Now I want to talk to you about what you can do to really consolidate your knowledge and make it your

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own.

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One of the things that is really helpful that I've found is, since I started teaching programming, I've

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had a much better grasp of a lot of the programming concepts. Because often when you're just doing things,

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when you're just coding along, you know, as long as it works, it's fine, right?

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But if somebody actually asked me like, “Well, how does that code actually work, or why is this code better

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than this other solution that you could have done?”,

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now if I actually had to explain it, that whole process helps me really (a) realize like maybe I actually

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don't know,

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maybe I actually have to find out and read around the topic, hunt around on Google to get a bit more

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background knowledge,

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(b) the other thing is if I did know, and I could verbalize it and explain it so that somebody else, another

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human, actually understands, then I have to pull that knowledge out of my brain and into like a text format,

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or like a verbal format, then it really really becomes solidified in my own memory, right?

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So what I recommend people always to do is try to, while you're learning, come up with your own analogies,

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right?

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I'll often give you a lot of analogies like, you know, an object is a bit like a car, and a class is a

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bit like a blueprint.

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But once you understand...

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But once you've understood those concepts, then you're very much

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welcome to come up with your own analogies, right?

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And try teaching those analogies to other students on the course. Head into the Q and A and say, “Hey, this

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is something that I came up with.” And maybe, you know, like it will help somebody, because my way is often

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like not the only way, right?

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And maybe you'll come up with a better explanation that other students will be able to relate to best.

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So I recommend teaching others and also sort of piecing the data, or the information, together in your

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own head, so that you can explain it to somebody else. And more often than not, it really really helps

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people learn the topics, that's especially in programming. So keep going and try explaining some of the

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things that you've understood to other people, and getting other people to understand it, and I'm sure you're

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going to do even better.