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Posted by Charlie Harcourt
Charlie Harcourt
8,046 Points

Taking Notes

Hello all

I was taking notes in a notepad but I don't find that effective anymore. I have 2 and halfish books full of different coding languages but need a new way to take notes. What would you suggest? Maybe copy them onto a word document and continue from there? How do you take notes and what helps you the most to remember what you have learned? You see I am dyslexic and need certain ways to learn and take notes however I don't think i've found that yet.

I know the basics to some languages like SQL however I am struggling to get to the advanced stage of my knowledge

Can you help?

Any and all suggests will be helpful :)

Charlie Harcourt
Charlie Harcourt
8,046 Points

My notes mainly consists of concepts and coding rules like primary key in SQL I may just try and swap if over to a word document so i'm going through it all from start to finish and then go on from there. Like a 100 days of coding thing? I too have little snippets of code on the sticky notes app on windows. Where do you find these manuals? Online or via books?

thanks for your help :)

Dave StSomeWhere
Dave StSomeWhere
19,870 Points
Dave StSomeWhere
Dave StSomeWhere
19,870 Points

for the manuals, generally a quick search brings up the main site and then click on the documentation link, you mentioned SQL so go to SQLite or MySQL and of course MDN Javascript.

Always noodle around these type of sites and you'll find many other paths of info to investigate.

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Dave StSomeWhere
Dave StSomeWhere
19,870 Points
Dave StSomeWhere
Dave StSomeWhere
19,870 Points

What kind of notes are you taking?

I generally keep important snippets in my editor of choice (different for different languages). As far as concepts go, I find that doing effective searches and reading the appropriate manuals - most of the courses have teacher notes with links to reference material and it would probably be worth it to get comfortable with all that is available on-line.