Pratice makes permanent
Apprenticeship Patterns is a really interesting book to read
and I actually learned a lot from it. For this week, I read about the pattern “Practice,
Practice, Practice” and there are a few interesting things I found about it.
The pattern starts with a quote by George Leonard saying that masters they don’t
just get better by devoting in a particular skill, but they practice getting
better and the it gets more enjoyable to perform basic moves over again once
they are better. I can definitely agree on this as I think we all have been
through a rough beginning of doing something, but when we are better, we would
think back how easy it is to do those basic task and we would do those rather than
more complex problems that we have to face later on during the process of
mastering a skill.
Then the author went on to talk about practice is a long
process and it has to be done without interruption, and in a comfortable environment
of making mistake. At this part, it is interesting to learn that practice in software
development can be in a stress-free and playful environment. For me, I always
think that the best way to practice is to join a group project, and there would
be one or another thing that would stress me out so easily like if I work in a
small group or alone even on a small size project, at some point we would be
overwhelm with the amount of work that we have to deal with, or too much
concern about security, features, accessibility, etc. and after reading this
chapter, it makes me question about my priority on different aspect of the
program and maybe I should change in order to get better.
The author also brings up another interesting point is to
try to do a bit different for each time we practice and choosing the right
thing to practice is very important. In my opinion, I think that should be the
most optimize way to discover new things and not to miss out any important
things while we are still on the basic level.
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