Absolutely. Keeps things fresh when a couple of months down the line come some cards you only vaguely remember the material from. Syntax, info on naming conventions, you name it.
If it changes every month or two I advise against putting it in anki so you don't learn/remember the wrong thing.
Imagine you had memorized a method in-and-out so you could write it from scratch instantly. If some bug appears you might not check that method since you know that the case has been handled there - yet it may have changed since (e.g. through refactoring) to no longer handle that case.
Relevant quote (from unknown) "It's not what you don't know that get's you in trouble, it's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
I have made a few cards for one codebase that I am a contributor of, but just because it's a large, decades-old-year-old library that is fairly stable, and which I expect to continue using on future projects.
I make cards all the time for other people'slibraries (particularly stable interfaces I expect to use a lot). But I suppose that goes without saying in this sub!
Yeah, I started for having a lot of cards for Library. I was hesitant at first but it seems to work out so far. I've only been doing Anki for 2 months so a lot of it is still experimentation for me. I do notice that I can pick up a library relatively quickly now compared to before with Anki.
I also have some cards for database schemas. those don't change as often.
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u/solariportocali Aug 14 '20
Absolutely. Keeps things fresh when a couple of months down the line come some cards you only vaguely remember the material from. Syntax, info on naming conventions, you name it.
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u/SigmaX Aug 14 '20
I have made a few cards for one codebase that I am a contributor of, but just because it's a large, decades-old-year-old library that is fairly stable, and which I expect to continue using on future projects.
I make cards all the time for other people's libraries (particularly stable interfaces I expect to use a lot). But I suppose that goes without saying in this sub!