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by rdtek
3446 days ago
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Personally I love intellisense and autocomplete functions of modern IDEs, I guess we have it so easy these days. The biggest drag on my coding velocity is more often thinking through the logic of what I actually want to program, recalling more APIs and function calls from heart would only make me slightly quicker, but then I'm also a contemplative deep thinker which may have an affect. |
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Yes, that is very important and I do ensure that I have the design and the details fleshed out. Still, I get tripped up and sometimes the IDE (Xcode) also fails me, though that is a failure of the IDE feature.
For example, I was recently working on making a class which would have some animation settings and there is a fill mode. I did not know the exact one and I had to look up. I tried `fill` for autocomplete to help, but did not work. Then I go do a look up and I hate these breaks.
>> would only make me slightly quicker,
I am not sure of the ROI to memorize these details, but looking at the other comment which links to Derek Siver's usage of spaced repetition for the same, seems to be effective, but then that is not a large sample set. I guess I will give the spaced repetition a try for a month or two and see.
Thanks.