048: Visualize Your Code (and Practice Anywhere!)

In this episode, Nicole introduces you to an often-overlooked technique for solidifying the programming knowledge you encounter: visualization.

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What you'll learn

  • What visualization is, and what it looks like
  • How visualization techniques can help you
  • How to begin a visualization session
  • What to do after your session

Tweetables

  • [bctt tweet=”While I was visualizing, I recognized the emotions I felt, and opened my eyes briefly to write down “frustrated, don’t know CSS transformations as well as I thought”. I let the emotion go, and re-focused.” username=”lavie_encode”]

I first discovered visualization when in 2017, when I was working as a freelance web developer. I had my first client, but I found myself regularly needing to brush up on what I was learning. Additionally, I was spending a lot of time with my grandfather and found myself away from keyboard quite a bit. Fortunately, there wasn’t a massive rush on the project.

While I was away from my laptop, I’d think about the code I was writing… as we often do while we’re learning. I walked through it in my mind, and made mental notes of things that struck me as unfamiliar or where I experienced uncertainty.

What I was doing was visualizing my coding experience. In this episode, you’ll learn more about visualization, why it works, and how you can leverage it to practice coding when you’re AFK. I hope it’s helpful!

Peace, love, and code,

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What you'll learn

  • What visualization is, and what it looks like
  • How visualization techniques can help you
  • How to begin a visualization session
  • What to do after your session

Tweetables

  • [bctt tweet=”While I was visualizing, I recognized the emotions I felt, and opened my eyes briefly to write down “frustrated, don’t know CSS transformations as well as I thought”. I let the emotion go, and re-focused.” username=”lavie_encode”]

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