Here are some ways to effectively break down larger tasks into achievable steps in order to learn them faster
1. Break Things Into Smaller Chunks
This is the most obvious of all, but can be the hardest of all.
If you want to learn a piece of software, and you’re sitting in front of a piece of paper that you have no idea how to write code in, you can’t just work on that whole thing at once.
Instead, you have to make it smaller.
And that means breaking it into small pieces, and figuring out what those pieces are.
2. Do Your Homework (Example: a Skim) First
Before you start coding, you need to do a quick rundown of what that software does.
Sometimes that can take quite a long time to do, but if you start with the basics and learn the broadest amount of things you can, you’ll get more done that way.
3. Minimize Excuses
Sometimes it’s easy to come up with excuses why you can’t do something.
“I don’t have time to learn programming!”
“I’m not talented enough.”
“It will take me a long time to learn programming.”
This is where motivation comes in.
The best motivation you can have is just being ready to do the work. So the best way to beat procrastination is to just get ready to do the work.
4. Break Things Into Multi-Part Examples
Whenever I’m learning a new piece of software, the first step is always to figure out what it’s supposed to do.
So instead of picking up the manual and trying to read through it to learn how to do a feature, I break it into parts and then read through them.
For example, let’s say that you want to learn how to manipulate images using an image editor.
You’re going to break the code down into parts. Figure out what the image editor is supposed to do. See if there are several different ways you could do it.
5. Only Take On What You Can Do
Since I work in software development, I work on several different projects at once. I sometimes feel like I’m spread thin, and it often takes me quite a while to finish projects.
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