When I was in college I learned that the most effective way to learn a topic was to summarize it onto a single A4 page. The point of doing so is to reduce the topic down to it’s absolute essentials, recording on the page only the minimal facts necessary to memory. The sheets usually end up crammed with tiny writing and dense definitions but this kind of condensed notes are exactly what you need when revising for an exam – 12 meaty pages is far more manageable than 60 or 70 pages of regular notes when you’ve got an exam the night before.
As a law student turned web professional I’ve got a lot of learning to do: HTML, CSS, SQL, Scripting, Linux, DNS – every day there seems to be more and more buzzwords and languages I need to pick up. Luckily the web programming community has come to the same conclusion about the benefits of cheat sheets. Web professionals frequently make and distribute their own cheat sheets to the world and websites like Devcheatsheet and Cheat-sheets.org aggregate all these cheat sheets from across the web and present them all together in one handy portal.
If you’re serious making it online, I’d recommend you print off a folder worth of these badboys and stuff them into every corner of your life where you might find a spare minute or two. After a few weeks of sneaky cheat sheeting you’ll be amazed by how much you learned and by how much coffee you’ve drank.
Excited? Then take your first step and download a set of html cheat sheets to start seeing how the web around you is constructed.
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