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Software development happens in your head. Not in an editor, IDE, or
designtool. You're well educated on how to work with software and
hardware, but what about wetware--our own brains? Learning new skills
and new technology is critical to your career, and it's all in your
head.
In this book by Andy Hunt, you'll learn how our brains are wired, and
how to take advantage of your brain's architecture. You'll learn new
tricks and tipsto learn more, faster, and retain more of what you
learn.
You need a pragmatic approach to thinking and learning. You need to
Refactor Your Wetware.
Programmers have to learn constantly; not just the stereotypical new
technologies, but also the problem domain of the application, the whims
of the user community, the quirks of your teammates, the shifting sands
of the industry, and the evolving characteristics of the project itself
as it is built.
We'll journey together through bits of cognitive and neuroscience,
learning and behavioral theory. You'll see some surprising aspects of
how our brains work, and how you can take advantage of the system to
improve your own learning and thinking skills.
In this book you'll learn how to:
Use the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition to become more expert
Leverage the architecture of the brain to strengthen different thinking
modes
Avoid common "known bugs" in your mind
Learn more deliberately and more effectively
Manage knowledge more efficiently
