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The thinking behind the site

learn-co.de is built on a few decades of learning research — spaced practice, retrieval, interleaving and the simple idea that you learn to code by coding. Here's some of it, in plain English.

A line graph of memory falling steeply over time, with later review points lifting it back up.
Spaced learning
The forgetting curve, and how we fight it

More than a century ago, Hermann Ebbinghaus sat down to memorise nonsense syllables and discovered something every teacher feels in their bones: we forget fast, and then we keep forgetting.

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