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Hey good job, you've done another module.
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This is awesome.
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I hope you'll keep continuing this momentum and just continue along the course.
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Now I want to talk to you about what you can do to really consolidate your knowledge and make it your
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own.
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One of the things that is really helpful that I've found is since I started teaching programming, I've
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had a much better grasp of a lot of the programming concepts. Because often when you're just doing things
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when you're just coding along, you know as long as it works it's fine right?
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But if somebody actually asked me like, 'well how does that code actually work or why is this code better
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than this other solution that you could have done?'
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Now if I actually had to explain it that whole process helps me really (a) realize like maybe I actually
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don't know.
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Maybe I actually have to find out and read around the topic, hunt around on Google to get a bit more
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background knowledge.
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(b) The other thing is if I did know and I could verbalize it and explain it so that somebody else, another
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human, actually understands then I have to pull that knowledge out of my brain and into like a text format
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or like a verbal format then it really really becomes solidified in my own memory right?
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So what I recommend people always to do is try to while you're learning come up with your own analogies
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right?
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I'll often give you a lot of analogies like you know an object is a bit like a car and a class is a
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bit like a blueprint.
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But once you understand...
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But once you've understood those concepts, then you're very much
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welcome to come up with your own analogies right?
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And try teaching those analogies to other students on the course. Head into the Q/A and say, 'Hey, this
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is something that I came up with.' And maybe, you know, like it will help somebody because my way is often
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like not the only way right?
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And maybe you'll come up with a better explanation that other students will be able to relate to best.
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So I recommend teaching others and also sort of piecing the data, all the information together in your
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own head so that you can explain it to somebody else. And more often than not, it really really helps
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people learn the topics, especially in programming. So keep going and try explaining some of the
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things that you've understood to other people and getting other people to understand it and I'm sure you're
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going to do even better.