How to celebrate… umm… mnemonic milestones?
Because I feel like I’m about to hit one. Hmm.
I’ve been thinking a lot about the fact that December will mark the anniversary of when I memorized huge chunks of Python’s documentation, largely by taking walks around my town and encoding the documentation along the various routes.
In fact, it’s pretty much all laid out on one really long winding and weaving walk that starts nearby my house and goes into and all around downtown.
I only coded my first “Hello World” last year in June, in Python.
Tonight I’ve been falling asleep munching on crackers and reading:
- a few chapters of Beej’s Guide to Socket Programming in C, and
- Sebesta’s chapter on Statement-Level Control Structures.
- I’ve been thinking a lot about how to use command-line flags as an intuitive sort of “help” documentation, (partially as a result of months of nigh-daily tweaking of a growing eco-system Bitburner automation scripts I continue to fiddle with)…
- after this much fiddling, I’ve gotten in the habit of providing myself helpful documentation on the fly, during most sessions. And pairing functionality and documentation with flags has been a bit of a life-saver… in a lighthearted manner of speaking…
- Spending so much time with command-line flags and such has had me mulling over switch case statements… and a growing curiosity for control statements that don’t so much branch, but allow multiple selectors.
- I’ve been thinking a lot about how to use command-line flags as an intuitive sort of “help” documentation, (partially as a result of months of nigh-daily tweaking of a growing eco-system Bitburner automation scripts I continue to fiddle with)…
So, that’s partially where my head is at tonight. But I’m also marveling a bit (I think this is fair and healthy to do, y’all) at the progress I’ve made in… a year and a half? A little less perhaps.
I feel like I should celebrate (come December).
But how?
I’m also, as of this past weekend, a Black Belt candidate.
No need to get too excited, an official Black Belt is probably around 2 years away. But it’s also an accomplishment of memory, as I specifically joined the martial art almost 3 years ago with the intention of integrating memory palaces and mnemonics in my learning process. And, as my instructor’s often note and chuckle about, even though I get worn out and exhausted, I “always know” my material when testing time comes around.
I memorize all forms and all techniques using mnemonics. And it’s made “remembering” all the different aspects of the martial art so very fun and (to some degree) easy.
I feel like I’m about to hit a little milestone, come December.
…anyone got ideas for celebrating a “mnemonic milestone”?