How to remember everything from coding tutorials
The 5 different levels to remember what you watched
The 5 levels of remembering coding tutorials and courses
As developers, we tend to watch a lot of tutorials and take a lot of courses and remember most of them so here are the 5 levels of remembering the course you took or the tutorial you watched.
Level 1: Watching the tutorial
We tend to get over obsessed by what we should do to remember more and learn fast and end up doing nothing so what matters is watching the full course or tutorial or the parts you need for your goal. If you are learning CSS maybe skip the CSS-animations tutorials or videos if they do not align to your goals and watch the other ones but do watch them.
Level 2: Code along
Coding together with the teacher is very important and this can be done in many ways either code along or watching a few minutes of the lecture and then trying to implement it without seeing the code.
Level 3: Taking notes + Code along
Taking notes helps you know the main parts of the lecture without taking much time and It also helps you skip to the main parts without re-watching the whole lecture. This can be done either with a pen and paper or you can do it on your machine for it udemy has a feature of taking notes built-in or you can use an extension like liner if you are on youtube.
Level 4: Taking notes + Summarising the lecture + Code along
Summarising the lecture in your way allows you to know the main things about the whole lecture and helps you to understand the whole lecture without rewatching the lecture and as it is in your style you understand it better. The key difference between note-taking and summarising is that note-taking is done to know the important parts of a lecture and summarising is done to understand the whole lecture in short. Notion is an amazing site and app you can use to summarise as it has a code block feature that helps summarise better.
Level 5: Taking notes + Summarising the lecture + Code along + Explaining
Explain is the key to remembering more because when we absorb any information for the first time if we kinda understand something we leave it that way but when we explain it to someone we need to know everything about it and to know it in the terms you can explain. Explaining can be done by answering comments in which people are confused about a part in the youtube video or again udemy has a built-in question and answers feature that you could use to answer the questions of other students and you can also record a short video of yourself explaining the topic or if you have someone to explain it to you can do that too.