In “Advice to beginners” I said, “Learn how you learn,”
and many people stepped up to tell me that learning styles are a myth. I
know the research about learning styles, but people are over-applying it to
dictate how people should learn.

If you haven’t heard about the theory and its debunking, you can read about
it in The Atlantic or Education
Next. Briefly: the theory was that some people were inherently visual
learners, while others were textual learners, among other kinds. This has been
proven untrue.

When I said “learn how you learn,” I meant for learners to take an active
role in choosing what their path should be. I’m not talking about the four
modalities from the debunked “learning styles” myth. There are many effective
ways to learn how to program, and you have to choose your way. There are lots
of possible choices:

• Do you want to start with computer science theory, or jump into writing
  small programs?
• Do you want to know the inner workin