Why the grain of common advice (never heard this expression before) says not to use Anki to learn programming language ?
I find it useful in order to recall the order of the argument of certain functions, like List.fold_left and List.fold_right, that I often uses when programming.
The expression is “against the grain”, deriving from cutting wood against its grain, fyi.
I don’t know why common opinion is against it, it’s just the impression I’ve gotten. I think it stems from the tendency to caution against blindly memorizing things that you could just look up when needed.
But there’s a middle ground of things that I’ll forget without anki cards but that I do use often enough to justify memorizing.
Why the grain of common advice (never heard this expression before) says not to use Anki to learn programming language ? I find it useful in order to recall the order of the argument of certain functions, like List.fold_left and List.fold_right, that I often uses when programming.
The expression is “against the grain”, deriving from cutting wood against its grain, fyi.
I don’t know why common opinion is against it, it’s just the impression I’ve gotten. I think it stems from the tendency to caution against blindly memorizing things that you could just look up when needed.
But there’s a middle ground of things that I’ll forget without anki cards but that I do use often enough to justify memorizing.