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Hey, you've reached a big milestone. Today you've completed 20 days of code. Now that is a fifth of

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the way and that's massive.

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If you're not already, you should be really patting yourself on the back because you've done really

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well.

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Now, today, the thing I want to talk about is a question that students often have, which is, "Hey,

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you know, I've gone to day 20.

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But when I look back at the stuff that I did on day one, I can't remember exactly the names of the

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functions or how to write out the syntax for a particular piece of code.

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Does that mean that I haven't learned anything?"

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And the analogy that I like to give is, have you ever played video games, especially video games,

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where they require, like, complex combinations that you have to remember, like streetfighter?

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You know, how in order to do like a particular move, you need to be able to do up, up, down, down,

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X, Y, a, b.

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Now, when you're doing it in that moment, when you've just learned it, you remember how to do it.

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But when you come back to it in a month, you're like, "Oh, I don't remember those combinations.

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Does that mean that I haven't learned anything?"

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Well, the point is that programming is not about memorizing because we're in a day and age where information

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is cheap.

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You can search Google for any piece of information you want and it's there within a second.

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What your job needs to be is to understand how things work. Make sure that you understand how to use

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the code, when to use it, how it works behind the scenes.

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That way, the next time when you need to use it and you've forgotten how to write the syntax, you

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can just Google it, look it up. And as soon as you see it, you'll remember

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"Oh yeah, that's it.

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I know how to use it."

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So don't worry about memorizing things.

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Focus on understanding the code.

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So, good luck and keep going.