How to Learn New Things Quickly

Scott and Wes talk about how they learn new things quickly. Scott also tells a crazy story about his weekend. Netlify — Sponsor Netlify is the best way to deploy and host a front-end website. All the features developers need right out of the box: Global CDN, Continuous Deployment, one click HTTPS and more. Hit up netlify.com/syntax for more info. They are also hiring! netlify.com/careers Fluent Conf - Sponsor Developers, software engineers, designers, and web performance professionals flock to Fluent in pursuit of a common goal: building a better web. That means delivering fast, secure, accessible experiences to users and customers. Fluent covers a broad range of technologies and topics to provide web programming professionals with the skills, connections, and inspiration needed to build better online and mobile experiences. Fluent is this June 11-14 in San Jose, CA. Save 20% today with code: SYNTAX Show Notes 2:00 • Scott recounts his crazy story about getting Lymphangitis 8:30 • Know your learning type • videos, blogs, docs, source • no right or wrong way 15:00 • Foundational Skills 23:00 • Narrow your focus • Should you learn Redux with React? • blurring skills hurts future progress • don't learn too many things at once 26:00 • Get excited • try to reclaim your initial excitement • flow happens when you are excited • pick projects around hobbies • Star wars sucks 33:00 • Grind Time • write code first ask questions later • break shit • Submit to yourself that you are going to build this 3-4 times • iteration driven development • quality from quantity • use smarter people • snippet libs • style guides 40:00 • Immersion • follow every kind of media you can • put things on in the background • permeate into your brain ××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ××× • Wes: Crushing It Book • Wes: Crushing It AudioBook • Scott: Popmotion Pose Shameless Plugs Wes' JavaScript30 Course Scott's Headless WordPress course 1:00:00 • Scott comes out of nowhere with a story about TEA! Tweet us your tasty treats! Scott's Instagram LevelUpTutorials Instagram Wes' Instagram Wes' Twitter Wes' Facebook Scott's Twitter • Make sure to include @SyntaxFM • in your tweets

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Lydbog: 2. maj 2018