Hi there photoread4me,

Thank you very much for taking the time to consider my photoreading issue. You have made a great effort to help me and that is much appreciated!!!

I have been reading over you reply and I am starting to get-it - at last!!! Only practice will improve the speed and efficiency of the process in other learning situations.

I have decided to put my understanding of the process of Learning the C# programming language from a book into a series of steps for other people who are in a similar situation. Hopefully they can benefit from the experience that I’ve had.


So Preliminaries......

• Main purpose for reading book – what I want to be able to do after reading the book – develop my C# skills to a professional standard and to improve my career prospects. To be able to have the skills to be marketable and be able to apply for jobs as a developer.
• Ideal state – including developing self belief in my ability to achieve the goal
• Preview to pull out trigger words that relate to my purpose – start developing a curiosity and a passion to learn. Also decide on my commitment to achieving the goal
• Impact statements and affirmations
• Accelerated learning state
• Photoread
• Incubation period.


Activation

• 1 Chapter at a time
• Pull out trigger words for chapter – section headings and subheadings
• Then formulate specific questions to create curiosity and a powerful purpose to search for answers.( maybe creating a mind map of the questions) …eg

- How do you convert a decimal to an integer value and create the code to do so?
- What does enumeration mean?
- How do you code an enumeration?
- I want to understand how the code for this application works!
- How does the logic behind the coding work?
- Do I understand the language constructs used in the code when I try to understand the programming logic behind it?

Etc etc etc

• Read first sentence of each paragraph of the first section in the chapter
• Then do skittering for each section in the chapter to let the brain find the answers to the questions you have created for that chapter – satisfying purpose for chapter from mind mapped questions
• Do this for 20 minutes tops
• 10 minute mind map (putting chapter heading in centre and each section as a main branch from centre)– this will be for the information you have discovered during skittering which answers your questions
• Break for 5 minutes
• Review Mind map created and reflect on whether the purpose and questions have been satisfied. Ask if I am able to demonstrate the skills and understanding?
• If questions and purpose for chapter not satisfied, do another pass repeating above steps
• Continue until needs for chapter and yourself have been satisfied.
• Move onto next chapter.
• Photoread the chapter first
• And start whole Activation process again for new chapter.


This is now my understanding of the whole process. I will now ‘play’ with this strategy and let you know what works best for me. Hope it helps others too!

Kindest Regards
Dmlocke