Background: Im a sr dev at an agency, have been for awhile now, been doing webdev related work since '99.

New kid is hired. Early 20s, maybe 22? Sharp. Ver sharp.

Hes new to VueJS but like I said, sharp. Took me a few days to get comfortable with it. He has no react / angular / vue background or experience other that hearing about it here and there, but his JS is strong. I task him with learning Vue, on his own, on company time, as a new large client may require it in the near future.

Next day this kid comes into the office and knows Vue pretty well.

Within the week, hes caught up to us.

Soon, Im sure he will be teaching us stuff.

I ask him how he studies. Heres what he said (paraphrased).

"I approach it like a workout. I find an exercise, and I do it. Then I delete it, and redo it. Then I redo it. These are my reps. I find a similar exercise, and I do that next. This is like doing a new set, like going from tricep to bicep. You need to engage the same muscles in similar but differing ways. For one set, I just scaffold the app. Five reps of that, tearing it down and starting anew each time. For the next set, I took the scaffolded project and added several directives. Five sets of that, starting with the bare scaffold each time. And so on."

It struck me how inefficient my learning pattern is. Ill make a whole app, and forget many steps / features / techniques / reasons. This kid is not forgetting stuff. Its interesting and Im going to give his method a try.

tl;dr; Interesting approach to learning: treat it like a workout with sets and reps

edit: gold and silver woot!! :-)