Why You Need To Code Every Day When You’re Learning To Program

When I was first teaching myself computer programming, I’d often set aside a big chunk of time on the weekend to work on tutorials. By the end of a couple of hours, I always felt like I’d made real progress. Alas, by the time the next weekend came around, a lot of what I’d learned would evaporate. “Uh, how do I … select an element in a two-dimensional array, again? I thought I learned this?” Gaaaah halp. So I got into a depressing loop: I’d spend the first half of my weekly session just getting back up to speed, re-absorbing the material I’d learned a week ago. It was frustrating. As you can probably guess by now, this is not the right way to learn to program. The correct way — as many friends in software told me — is to do a bit of coding every day. Even doing fifteen minutes once a day works better than setting a few hours aside once a week. Once I started doing that, I found that the concepts truly lodged in my head. Sure, I still forgot things. I still do today; hell, even long-term professional programmers constantly google stuff. But the general gist of coding, the major patterns and concepts, remained present in my mind — so long as I was doing a little every day. <a href="https://betterprogramming.pub/why-you-need-to-code-every-day-when-youre-learning-to-pro-a4d022e70459">Read More</a>