https://gatezh.com/categories/learning/Recent content in Learning on Serge GatezhHugoen-USWed, 16 Sep 2026 20:41:04 -0600https://gatezh.com/posts/using-anki-to-study-programming/Sun, 16 Jul 2017 20:04:19 -0400https://gatezh.com/posts/using-anki-to-study-programming/<h2 id="why-it-works">Why it works</h2> <p>Anki is based on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">spaced repetition</a> learning technique.</p> <p>I will try to explain it shortly. When you learn something new you have to repeat it to remember it. If you repeat that information too often - you just waste your time. But if you don&rsquo;t repeat it at the right time - you forget it. So the problem here is to figure out <em>the right interval</em> for repetitions. Anki is the tool to help with that task.</p>