WEBVTT 0 00:00.420 --> 00:01.050 Hey. 1 00:01.110 --> 00:04.590 Well done on achieving yet another module. 2 00:04.590 --> 00:10.210 You're doing really really good and I'm here cheering for you all the time 3 00:10.230 --> 00:10.580 even-- 4 00:10.920 --> 00:16.280 even though you can't see it, I'm actually here just cheering for you. 5 00:16.280 --> 00:21.270 Now I want to talk about the idea of space repetition. 6 00:21.430 --> 00:32.340 Now there's a lot of research that's gone into how humans learn and one of the most well tested techniques 7 00:32.670 --> 00:34.010 is space repetition. 8 00:34.020 --> 00:39.440 It's the idea that if you learn something just once, you're probably going to forget it. 9 00:39.990 --> 00:47.850 But if you learn something and then you come back to it in a week to review it and then a month to review 10 00:47.850 --> 00:51.720 it and then a year to review it then that knowledge is yours. 11 00:51.720 --> 00:52.400 You own it. 12 00:52.740 --> 00:55.410 So it's the same with programming. 13 00:56.040 --> 01:03.360 If you've learned a new concept let's say if else statements and you never use it again. 14 01:03.360 --> 01:05.280 You've just heard how it works 15 01:05.280 --> 01:10.020 you've seen what it does and then you never actually use it? 16 01:10.940 --> 01:12.320 You're not going to remember it. 17 01:12.350 --> 01:16.400 You're not going to remember how to use it the next time you come across it. 18 01:16.400 --> 01:19.880 You're not going to remember to use it when you actually need to 19 01:19.880 --> 01:21.120 in a program of your own. 20 01:21.740 --> 01:29.660 So as a part of the course I try really hard to add in more repetition and I know sometimes it feels 21 01:29.660 --> 01:31.700 like it's repetitive 22 01:31.700 --> 01:32.080 right? 23 01:32.330 --> 01:37.220 But you know if that is the case you can always listen at 2X speed. 24 01:37.220 --> 01:43.250 You can change the toggle of the player so that I speak much faster and you can get through more of the 25 01:43.250 --> 01:43.840 content 26 01:43.850 --> 01:51.080 if you're just reviewing it. But it's there for a reason. It's to try and remind you of the concept, to try 27 01:51.080 --> 01:53.880 and enact this kind of space repetition. 28 01:54.320 --> 02:00.590 But you can also do it yourself like if you keep a list of the things that you've done and at regular 29 02:00.590 --> 02:07.460 intervals increasing intervals, say a day, a week, a month, you just come back to those concepts just review 30 02:07.490 --> 02:08.800 it once more. 31 02:09.230 --> 02:16.760 You will be able to keep that knowledge in your long term memory and turn it into a skill rather than 32 02:16.760 --> 02:23.090 kind of like you know when you cram for exams and you just learn everything once and then like a week 33 02:23.090 --> 02:25.750 down the line, you forgotten everything like this is true for me. 34 02:25.760 --> 02:34.250 I've crammed-- firstly I've had so time where it feels like it's impossible to study everything in that amount 35 02:34.250 --> 02:36.010 of time. 36 02:36.260 --> 02:43.750 I remember when I was doing my end of med school exams I had four days of full time exams. 37 02:43.760 --> 02:50.900 It was like 9 to 5 with an hour lunch break of just exams on everything from like biochemistry to clinical 38 02:50.900 --> 02:54.380 medicine to like just everything under the sun. 39 02:54.740 --> 03:02.270 And I had to cram. I crammed so much knowledge and you know not like you know let alone now like many 40 03:02.270 --> 03:06.900 years on, but even like a week down the line it was all gone. 41 03:06.920 --> 03:14.490 It was like as if like there was no point doing it, doing that like cramming. So review the crux of 42 03:14.490 --> 03:22.400 the topics that you learn on a regular basis. Try to use it in some sort of format like make a small 43 03:23.180 --> 03:30.230 program or make a small quiz for yourself or feel something really really simple that you've already 44 03:30.230 --> 03:33.400 built in the course but just do it by yourself. 45 03:33.410 --> 03:42.170 Those are the moments when you're going to level up your skill and those are way more important than 46 03:42.260 --> 03:49.360 listening to me like I'm just going to say like if you do the work and you actually write the programs, 47 03:49.520 --> 03:52.910 that's really where it's most important. 48 03:52.910 --> 04:01.000 So have a go at doing that and I'm going to be here continuing to cheer on you in the background.