Using flash cards to improve your Ruby

This was a lightning talk at RubyKaigi 2013 in Tokyo about using flash cards to improve your Ruby skills. But you can memorize almost anything using this technique.

It might not be understandable without me talking, but it is damn beautiful. Slides created by Stina Evjan (http://stinaevjan.com/).

Transcript

1. Using flash cards to improve your Ruby A lightning talk about flash cards Melbourne, Australia @peterevjan peter.evjan@gmail.com PETER PETER EVJAN EVJAN Illustrations & design by Stina Evjan
3. Oh no! Oh no! I got it wrong I got it wrong :( Whoop whoop! Whoop whoop! I got it right! I got it right!
4. This is how I do it
5. This seems like a sensible way to ensure that the number_of_cliches method always returns zero, but will it actually work? To put it another way, can you override a method in a module by defining that method in the class that includes the module? Once you know that a mixin module effectively becomes a superclass when it is included, the answer is easy to come by: Yes. Since we know that the methods in a superclass cannot override the methods in subclasses, we can deduce that not module method
6. After 1-2 chapters…
7. Once you know that a mixin module effectively becomes a superclass when it is included, the answer is easy to come by: Yes. Since we know that the methods in a superclass cannot override the Question What is the relation between a class and the module that it just mixed in? Answer The module effectively becomes a superclass
9. Question What is the relation between a class and the module that it just mixed in?
10. Answer The module effectively becomes a superclass
11. Oops, didn’t know Ha, I knew it! Too easy!
12. Quiz time!
13. Question Where was I born?
14. Answer Boden (in the north of Sweden)
15. Common pitfalls
16. .pro
17. Answer Boden (in the north of Sweden)
18. Question What is the name of the learning technique I use with my flash cards?
19. Answer Spaced repetition
20. A memorized answer
21. Question What tool to use for spaced repetition?
22. Answer Anki
23. http://ankisrs.net
24. Question What tool to use for spaced repetition?
25. Answer Anki
27. Melbourne, Australia @peterevjan peter.evjan@gmail.com PETER PETER EVJAN EVJAN Thank you! Illustrations & design by Stina Evjan