OpenEuphoria

Re: Success at last...thank you all

• Posted by jstory at freenet.edmonton.ab.ca May 04, 2001
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On Thu, 3 May 2001 dstanger at belco.bc.ca wrote:

> (2) How does one learn all of the various commands for Euphoria? The
> documents with the program only explain a little bit and other than picking
> through the tutorials and demos (which is fun but I am already half way
> through them) how does one learn? How did you all learn?

  Speaking strictly for myself, I can't learn anything except by doing it.
For example, I was not able to learn carpentry until I started doing it.
Books alone were not enough.  Same for every subject.  I couldn't learn
math until I applied the math in math problems.  Same for physics.  Same
for programming languages.  I read a bunch of books about Pascal, but I
didn't know how to program in Pascal until I started making programs in
Pascal.  Same for C.  Same for everything I ever learned, with the
possible exception of when I was much younger.
  Euphoria followed the same pattern.
  
  A Theory:  Psychologists tell us there is short term memory and long
term memory.  It seems (in my case at least) for any information to go
from short term memory to long term memory, it has to be applied. 

 Of course you don't really need to remember everything when you can use
the F1 key or have a documentation file handy.

  My way of learning is: not how to memorized it, but how to apply it.
If I don't apply it, it never sticks in my memory, no matter how many
times I memorize it.  For learning a programming language, this means
learn the language by making programs in it.

       Jerry Story