Reddit reviews How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens

• they want someone with an associates degree in IT or a certification or significant work experience. So I think you could finish the associates degree at CC and apply and have no issues in getting accepted or you can do an IT certification that is part of the SWD program and get accepted that way.
  
  
• learning how to learn is one of the best things you can do on your journey to becoming a good developer. Unfortunately almost no places teach you to learn how to learn, so taking initiative would be very wise to do. for me - I learn well reading a tech book as opposed to watching videos as I feel I get a deeper understanding of the subject matter although almost always reading tends to go deeper into concepts. So check out a book at your library something like this:
  
• http://www.amazon.com/How-We-Learn-Surprising-Happens/dp/0812984293/ref=pd_sim_14_4?ie=UTF8&dpID=51HJ9jVJxUL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR105%2C160_&refRID=03SAKKNQZJXGAT81XTDZ
  
  
• I've only started web development this year and this program in September, but this is my 2 cents. I feel you more prepared than other programs for working as this program takes a very practical approach - learning very essential skills such as HTML/CSS, Java, SQL, etc. You should have a very good understanding of java because passing the java cert requires a very good understanding of java (tho I haven't taken yet)
  
• I did some interview mock trials and have a few interviews with recruiters, a company owner, and Charles Schwab (which I got to the second interview with IT manager). Most experienced engineers asked me a bit about the school (as I put on my resume that I've graduating in 1-2 years) and how do I plan on working and going to school. But the dealbreaker for me was that I did not have any work experience on my resume so this is what usually made them pass me up although I did then create 2 websites but the IT manager wanted me to have deep javascript experience and AngularJS. Which are things that NO school teaches.
  So my bottom line is: choosing this school is great because Whichever school I end up going to, there's so much learning I will have to do outside of school to become the person companies want badly. Good luck =]
  

I’m in medical school - use Anki. /r/Anki for the main subreddit and /r/medicalschoolanki for the folks who have 30k+ flash cards to manage; the main anki subreddit can be a little like “how do I learn these 50 Spanish vocabulary words for my 8th grade test?” which is great but not frequently helpful for folks in grad programs.

“How We Learn” is a super useful book to read before starting a curriculum, too. I read it before starting and am super glad I did. You can read the whole thing (it’s very readable and not dense for what it is) or just flip to the summary chapter in the back. https://www.amazon.com/How-We-Learn-Surprising-Happens/dp/0812984293

Edit: also there might be med school resources that overlap with nutrition coursework; uncertain what the overlap looks like but med students have notoriously detailed licensing boards and also tend to have a lot of money so there’s a fair amount of “high yield,” third-party resources developed for them. YouTube videos aimed towards the USMLE (med school licensing exam) will succinctly cover topics related to nutrition and biochemistry, and I’m sure there’s relevant portions of the giant anki decks published by med students, which can save you a ton of time since they’re already made.

Otherwise, try not to cram! Remember that everyone struggles at points, even if they don’t publicly show it. C’s get degrees so focusing on what you actually need to know to best serve your clients over nitpicky details is worth it. (Ignore that if you’re going into research, lol.) Best of luck :^)

Piggybacking this comment for "how to learn", which I see other people are curious about.

2 books that I've found helpful in terms of learning how to learn, and would recommend to others:

• Benedict Carey - How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens
  
  
  
• Josh Waitzkin - The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
  
  You might recognise the last author's name - Josh became a bit of a sensation when he won his first national chess championship at age 9, proceeded with an illustrious career for the next 10 years, until he decided he wanted to learn martial arts - and became the world champion of Tai Chi Chuan.
  
  Both are good reads (neither are exceptional), and will give a good understanding of how to go about acquiring a new skill set with the least amount of wasted time and effort.
  
  

I haven't read all of it and I'm sure it's probably a simplification of more nuanced ideas, but check out Josh Kaufman's The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything Fast. It seems to be about how to maximize certain skills and habits to create an ideal brain environment for processing new information. Other books that may relate to the goal you described include How We Learn, Make It Stick: The Science of Successfully Learning, or perhaps even something like Robert Greene's Mastery. There's even a Coursera course out called "Learning How to Learn" that probably delves into a lot of the ideas explored in the aforementioned books, and a guy named Cal Newport has a whole blog that investigates what study habits are actually useful and which are not.

Also, I don't think the idea should be to obtain knowledge as much as have a solid foundation in thinking critically and learning how to learn. Your original post implies that you seem to view learning as stuffing your brain full of (hopefully factual) ideas to produce something recognizable as "knowledge"; a better way to conceptualize this process is that you develop skills in learning, processing information, and thinking in general with the hopes that it will enable you to draw on a wider range of knowledge and ideas when they crop up. Hence why I suggested books that are about learning and information processing; if you can end up making learning, studying, and reflecting a habit that you naturally come to do, perhaps you can begin a fuller mental life in general instead of simply becoming a walking encyclopedia.

Read or listen to an audiobook of How We Learn

It has a bunch of helpful science based techniques for retaining what you learn.

A key is practice at spaced intervals, and practicing retrieval.