I am always learning new things but never seem to remember them when i go back to them.Am i moving to quickly? what do you think

Question

when i learn new subjects in programming, eg classes in c++, i seem to understand it perfectly but the next day i go to revise, it is as if i never saw it befor. Any clues as to how you can help me?

Answer 1

Try sticking to one programming langauge and learning it before moving on to others too quickly

Answer 2

what I will advice you to go with is learn a thing and play with it for a while then move to the next and repeat the same process again

Answer 3

Repetition is often what causes us to remember things, so don't forget to go back and revise and practice writing code rather than just remembering facts.

Answer 4

Good advice here! Before your brain stores something (more or less) permanently it needs to see/understand it about seven distinctive times. So reading the same book/article seven times is good but it's better to read seven books/articles on the topic (or in case of programming read one book, watch two videos and do four different exercises on one topic). Then it should stick!

Answer 5

»» Try to write some code about each thing you've learned, and you will remember it more easily because you practiced.

»» After a while, revise your code and improve where necessary.

»» I see you learned C++, also take the C course as C++ builds on C.

Answer 6

I surely get to learn a lot

Answer 7

»» Also know what you are learning, it easy to get lost out there, I like this article which talks about different populair languages out there:

https://www.whoishostingthis.com/blog/2014/09/04/learn-to-code/