Philip Guo on Nostr: another related thought is that active recall is hard to sustain because, well, it ...

another related thought is that active recall is hard to sustain because, well, it feels hard -- but the cool thing about writing code is that you get some payoff when you do it 'right', so by having activities where learners write small bits of code, you're encouraging constant active recall (at least of python syntax and basic run-time semantics) and they're getting instant-ish feedback. that's why we never forget syntax once learned, since it's recalled every time we code