The document discusses patterns for learning software development efficiently. It emphasizes the importance of sleep, exercise, and nutrition to support learning. It also recommends techniques like spaced repetition, visualization, simulating synesthesia, and experimenting with different learning scenarios to improve the learning process. The goal is to make learning more effective and memorable over time through deliberate practice and optimizing one's environment, routines, and study methods.

1. Learning to Learn:
Patterns of Software Education
Jonan Scheffler
@1337807
jonanscheffler@gmail.com

3. Paid Developer Training
5 months + Hard Work = Career

4. What does it take
to go from zero to developer?

5. 10,000 Hours?
Malcolm Gladwell thinks so
Author of
Outliers

6. K. Anders Ericsson
The Role of Deliberate Practice in
The Acquisition of Expert Performance

7. 3 hours/day, 10 years
well actually 2.739726027

8. It takes ALOT
of time to learn
This is an
ALOT

9. Why is it so hard
to learn?

10. It’s very important
that you be able to forget

11. Brains are incredibly
complicated machines

12. The Thalamus
is a router for your senses

13. Noses skip the router
and go straight for the Amygdala.

14. The lizard in your head
makes you sad

15. Eric Kandel
Shocks California Sea Slugs

16. The Persistence of Long-
Term Memory:
A Molecular Approach to Self-
Sustaining Changes in Learning-
Induced Synaptic Growth

17. Neurons physically change
when we learn

18. Signal more often to
affect change

19. It is possible to improve
the efficiency of learning

20. Want to make it memorable?
Add some bears, not too many

21. Terror Academy
Hungry Academy + Bears

22. Spaced repetition
Learn just as you forget
Flashcards
ankiweb.net

23. Programming can
be taught more efficiently

24. Basics first
Sleep, exercise, eat

25. Sleep
You need 8 hours

26. Exercise
because brains need blood

27. Eat healthy foods
that stabilize your blood sugar

28. Academy Revisions
Dormitory setting
Planned meals
Gym access

29. Stop the stack ranking
The race is long, and only
with yourself

30. Just-in-time learning
Implement a database in CSV

31. Pomodoro’s Revenge
10 minute lecture
15 minute workshop

32. Synesthesia
Manipulate your medium

33. What can you do
to make the most of your studies?

34. Sleep, exercise, eat
Yes, seriously, you should

35. Visualize
Images are memorable

36. Simulate synesthesia
Smell your code

37. Experiment
Create testable learning scenarios

38. Learning to Learn:
Patterns of Software Education
Jonan Scheffler
@1337807
jonanscheffler@gmail.com