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Sometimes I wonder if even the best learning app / edtech product has a significant chance of improving learning outcomes.

The higher order bit is in how the student lives their life outside of the app.

It's so important to have hobbies like reading books, taking on challenging intellectual tasks outside of the curriculum, solving puzzles, reading the news critically, having good conversations and debates with people. These are all inputs that make most of the difference.

I'm zooming through Flexbox thanks to the FlexBox Zombies game. It uses spaced-repetition and gamification to help you learn CSS Flexbox.

Going forward, whenever I use Flexbox I'll probably pretend to target a bunch of zombies.

Flexbox Zombies is an example of edtech done right. Let's aim higher than creating plain old video tutorials.

When I was building my first Android app in Java back in 2011 as a noob developer, I assumed one had to buy a domain before naming a Java package.

Western Music searches on YouTube: 60s Hits, 70s Rock, 80s Party etc

Indian Music searches on YouTube: Old Songs

Are you a new web developer? Learn a full-stack framework like Django, Rails or Laravel after learning a minimal framework like Flask.

The initial learning curve may be steep, but the investment will payoff throughout your software development career.