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Best Learning Method

Which learning method provides you with the best knowledge retention?

I am interested to know if techies thrive on different methods than non-techies.

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    Being a software engineer, I have a different perspective.  I tend to not trust books, video, or other forms of documentation.  Unlike hardware which has a much greater specification longevity, what is true about software today is probably obsolete in 3 months (the Linux APIs being a notable counter-example).

     

    So, my favorite learning tool is the source code + README files (if available).  Frankly, knowing how lazy programmers are about documentation, I take comments in the source code with a large grain of salt.

     

    Okay, you probably guessed that I have been writing code since the days of punched cards.  Good documentation is my post-it system, especially for assembly language programs.

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    Being a software engineer, I have a different perspective.  I tend to not trust books, video, or other forms of documentation.  Unlike hardware which has a much greater specification longevity, what is true about software today is probably obsolete in 3 months (the Linux APIs being a notable counter-example).

     

    So, my favorite learning tool is the source code + README files (if available).  Frankly, knowing how lazy programmers are about documentation, I take comments in the source code with a large grain of salt.

     

    Okay, you probably guessed that I have been writing code since the days of punched cards.  Good documentation is my post-it system, especially for assembly language programs.

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