I love this so much because it's easy to get overwhelmed in tech with all the coding languages and tools available to us. But when you think of yourself as a concept-collector you can start to identify patterns in the things you're learning.
For example, I noticed that no matter what framework I use, web development is essentially made up of these building blocks:
๐Views -> What's being displayed to the user
๐ขEvents -> The different things that a user 'causes to happen'
๐จEvent Handling -> What we do after the user causes things to happen
๐ณStorage -> Data/information needs to be stored and retrieved
๐Routing and Controllers -> Allows us to create conceptual locations for where data/information should live
โOptimization -> Making things run as smoothly as possible
In other words:
- The user needs to see something
- The user needs to interact with what they see and make things happen
- When they cause something to happen I need to decide what occurs next
- My data needs to be stored somewhere, and I need to be able to access it
- I use routes to allow the user to access data kept in different locations
- I optimize to make things run smoother
When you learn something new, try to grasp the deeper meaning of what's being done. ๐๐ฐ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ถ๐ข๐จ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐บ๐ฏ๐ต๐ข๐น๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ญ๐บ ๐ข ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ฅ, ๐ข ๐ธ๐ข๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข๐ค๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ ๐ข ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ณ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ. If you notice these patterns you'll be able to switch between frameworks and languages much more easily and confidently!