Effective PyCharm Transcripts
Chapter: Conclusion
Lecture: How to remember all these features
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Remember at the beginning we talked about how to learn the features of an IDE. And if you see a picture, if you open your screen and you see this here
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you may think, oh amazing, look at all what this does or you may be like oh my gosh, I just want to edit some code, how do I work with all this stuff.
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So you really need to learn the features of the IDE to make every one of these things be a benefit and not just a distraction at best.
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So let's review the technique that I talked about. Now, when I introduced it, it was maybe abstract
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but we've seen so many features that you probably want to use, how are you going to remember them?
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Well, remember I said you should first discover what those features are, and that to a large degree is what the purpose of this course is,
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it takes you through all the features, it shows them in action it shows you the true benefit and the particular times to employ those.
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We kind of solved the discover problem, obviously there's more to discover, but you've got a bunch of that
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now you need to remember them, which is tricky, and you need to practice them. So I had this plan for how you could do that.
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There's the cheat sheet that you download from the beginning of the course, then you can install presentation assistant,
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which I hope you did, that's one of the plugins and that will tell you every time you work with a menu item
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or you do something it will tell you what the name of the feature is it will tell you what is the hotkey is,
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which I think is really important to learn the hotkeys of everything, and then get yourself a set of sticky notes
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or a piece of paper cut up into small pieces, write down the things that you're like I really like this from this course
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and I want to make sure I make it part of my daily routine, and put one of those sticky notes on your monitor
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and try to make use of that every time it makes sense, maybe one of them is refactor to a method or refactor this,
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maybe one of these is just to use conditional break points or something like that, you could write down 50 of these things
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and put one on your monitor until you've used it enough you feel like yeah, that's totally going to stick.
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So these three things I think can really help, hopefully this course has helped as well.
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Do make a concerted effort to find all the features you care about and find a way to make them part of your daily routine,
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at first it might seem overwhelming, there will be a bunch of things you have to learn, but in the end, you'll really have many more super powers,
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I described this at the beginning of this section, you'll have these powers and ways to work with your code that maybe you didn't have before.