How to Learn Stuff While Procrastinating Online

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by theforay • 17 years ago

20 8 17 years ago

Anon84• 17 years ago

Reading Hacker News?

euroclydon• 17 years ago

Those resources won't really help you to learn much! Do something that requires an attention span! I have started reading SICP when I have a free hour to goof off. I also have it bookmarked on my phone.

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html

I recently switched from coffee to green tea, and I am amazed at how much more information I can absorb, because my attention span is longer. I actually think it's analogous to the NFL, where rookies aren't any good until "the game slows down for them", well live has slowed down for me!

ibsulon• 17 years ago

Perhaps you were drinking too much caffeine at once?

tocomment• 17 years ago

or just too much caffeine. Green tea has less than coffee.

mattyb• 17 years ago

I have a soft spot for books that I can read on my BlackBerry. SICP, The Art of Unix Programming, Software Engineering for Internet Applications, SQL for Web Nerds, Practical Common Lisp, Dive Into Python, now Simply Scheme.

If only the Handbook of Applied Cryptography had their chapters in HTML.

mannicken• 17 years ago

I started watching SICP lectures, they're much easier to absorb than book :)

Nosferax• 17 years ago

By not reading mentalfloss.

HalcyonMuse• 17 years ago

I guess I just assumed that the title wasn't "How to Learn Useful Stuff While Procrastinating Online" due to negligence.

But no. If that was the title, it would be fraudulent advertising.

How to Learn Stuff While Procrastinating Online

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