Do you also constantly forget everything about programming?

Question

Programming

Three months ago I wrote a project on yii2, then I re-read a lot of api and docks and did everything well.
Yesterday I encountered yii again, as if I see it for the first time. Today I worked in general with the basics, with files in php, I had to google it too, because. I didn’t work with them for at least six months, maybe a year. And so constantly. Is this the norm or not? Other things I remember for years, like the phone numbers of some people I haven't called in years. I worked with files at least as often as I called these people. Does my brain think programming is unnecessary bullshit or what? How to deal with it?

Answer 1

Norm. Relax and enjoy. Personally, during the development process, I write out the most interesting moments in the "cheat sheet" so that in a year, when you need to remember, you have to google several times less.
You will only remember what you work with regularly.

Answer 2

The human brain remembers everything. In general, everything. Starting from birth. The brain puts into memory and sounds, and colors, and shapes, and smells, and touch, and feelings - in general, everything that it meets on its way. Moreover, this memorization occurs regardless of your will. Even if you don't want to, the brain will still remember. The memory potential of the brain is so huge that even if one amount of information is given to the brain every second, the whole life of a person is not enough to fill the brain.
If your brain didn't remember something, you wouldn't know you forgot it. That is, you can only forget what the brain remembers. But the fact is that a person forgets, the brain does not forget. Everything that gets into the brain is stored there forever. The only question is how to get from memory what you need at the moment.
To do this, there are methods such as repetition and association. When repeated, the corresponding memory area becomes active and you can easily use it. The more you repeat, the longer the activity lasts. Repetition functions are performed by the left hemisphere of the brain.
Another method is associations. This is a more powerful method. The essence of this is that for each unit of information that is put into the left hemisphere without your participation, you create an association with certain images or feelings. And you combine these images and feelings into a kind of holistic thought. These images and feelings are stored in the right hemisphere of the brain, which is responsible for images and feelings. That is, now each unit of information is displayed in both hemispheres of the brain, plus it is united by a bridge of integral thought between the left and right hemispheres. Such information is incomparably easier to remember. For example, you need to memorize twenty words: atom, apple, hammer, tractor, love, book, sofa, flow, turn, profit, signal, road, motif, retelling, tomato, fabric, fracture, wallpaper, weight, pillow. It's hard to remember by repetition. And then it will be short term. And if by association, then you can combine like this:
Atoms make up an apple that is broken with a hammer taken from a tractor, the love of which makes you read many books about it on the couch in the stream of thoughts, making a turn for profit. The signal on the road reminded me of the motive, while retelling it, I wiped the tomato with a cloth wrapped around a broken wallpaper brush and fell on the pillow with all my weight.
Let these sentences be ridiculous, but you will remember them for a very long time: months, years. And you can also remember any code or program structure. Schools of memory have been opened on the basis of associative memorization. For example, like this . There is also a very good memory training tutorial based on the above approach.
By practicing this approach, you will train your brain to remember more, better and longer.
PS: By the way, you remember the phone numbers of some people whom you have not called for several years just because you have formed an associative array with them in your brain.