> feel like they got it, and then freeze up the moment they had to write anything from scratch.
I had a deep rooted emotional response to this. One of the most gruelling and somewhat distressing experiences of learning to program was going through a tutorial, kind of getting it, then trying to make my own spin of the same idea and getting completely stuck.
But I’m also convinced that this gruelling process was the highest density learning I’ve ever done. I’ve learned much more since then, and a lot of considerably more complex things. But I’ve never matched the same density of learning.
The closest was probably high school math. That deeply uncomfortable “this hurts my brain and is stressing me out” feeling that I suspect isn’t normal for everyone.
I had a deep rooted emotional response to this. One of the most gruelling and somewhat distressing experiences of learning to program was going through a tutorial, kind of getting it, then trying to make my own spin of the same idea and getting completely stuck.
But I’m also convinced that this gruelling process was the highest density learning I’ve ever done. I’ve learned much more since then, and a lot of considerably more complex things. But I’ve never matched the same density of learning.
The closest was probably high school math. That deeply uncomfortable “this hurts my brain and is stressing me out” feeling that I suspect isn’t normal for everyone.