How to learn and remember basic things without practice?

Question

IT education

How do you memorize such a large amount of material, as, for example, in Tanenbaum's books? 800 pages of text that you need to digest and understand, but the details will be forgotten anyway, only the principle of how some things work will be remembered, but is that enough? If it is easier with books on algorithms - there you can implement and modify the studied algorithms in a variety of existing languages, then in the books of the above-mentioned author everything is more complicated. At the same time, the majority refers to Tanenbaum to the questions "How to study PC architecture", "How to study the principles of operation of the OS", "Where to start studying networks". I'm not trying to somehow blame the author, because I myself like his work and I read a book about PC architecture from him with pleasure, but many details from there have already been forgotten, and in some cases not only details. I'm just trying to understand

Answer 1

There is an old "joke" to advise beginners to read books for professionals. Someone does this because he was once given the same stupid advice, someone simply does not want to stand out. To become a good carpenter, you do not have to know the history of chisels and the evolution of milling cutters thoroughly, you have to pick up a tool and start working with wood.
The only way to remember a large amount of information is to use it in practice.

Answer 2

No way. It doesn't need to be memorized or memorized. It is necessary to understand the general principle, and the rest will be remembered in practice, or you can always return to the book to remember something

Answer 3

Read a book on the biology of the brain, and you will understand that just reading is not enough to form a sufficient number of associative connections.

Answer 4

without practice it is impossible to become a programmer
only learning through practice
set a learning task - a graduation project - and drank it for several years
or several projects

Answer 5

No practice anywhere. Regarding the details from various books: you don't need them yet, understand the principle and help out the base. When your level of knowledge reaches the desired level - when rereading (and it is better to reread books), you will easily remember all the details, because you will understand why, how and why.

Answer 6

How to learn to ride a bike without practice?

Answer 7

Without practice - just cramming by heart, but there is little point in this