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by deepaksurti 3446 days ago
>> thinking through the logic of what I actually want to program

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.