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Mar 6, 2020

i imagine most tutorials and online classes fail at properly educating people because they have no notion of homework or a legitimately ingrained reward system

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absolutely! i don't always do the homework, and when i do i usually don't do it as prescribed, but there are both explicit and emergent rewards built into homework-driven education that really have helped me learn most of what i know

i'd even go so far as to call what i'm doing with

@withgroves

a form of that education (but self-prescribed) — the goal was to think more like a developer while learning more code practices, and i'm unlocking a whole new trove of knowledge as i succeed and fail

on top of that, groves now has some followers that seem invested in the product, so i feel beholden to their expectations in a way that resembles the risk/reward system of graded assignments

this thread came from me taking a Roam tutorial and noticing that none of the learnings were sticking bc i wasn't putting things in practice as i was learning them. i realized that i'd much more easily learn if i had to do some homework before progressing to the next step