Speed ​​learning question number 2. So how do you speed up?

Question

IT education

I've already asked questions here about how I can multiply my learning speed many times over. As a help, I was caught in insufficient diligence and insufficient perseverance and was offered to stick to a chair. And today I find an extremely curious article: https://habrahabr.ru/post/277951/
A person remotely graduated from the Yandex ShAD and spent 569.5 hours on everything about everything, this is twenty months with a penny. I calculated his average speed by taking the start day and the finish day of training and it turned out that on average this person spent only 56 minutes per day on the SAD. And even during the first most intense semester, a person spent only 120 minutes on the SAD courses. And this is not even pure time (at least I can hardly imagine a person capable of working 12 hours without pauses, as he did one day). As I understand it, this is not only homework, but also the time spent on lectures. And ShAD is a car of complex disciplines:

So how did he manage to learn them so quickly? For example, the C++ language, only 38 hours spent. During such a time, God forbid, I will master 100 pages of the textbook, just with solving examples and tasks from the textbook and nothing more. What am I doing wrong? While a conclusion is being formed in my head: there’s nothing even to take on thick books if you don’t want to hopelessly drown in them
Python, for example, 21 hours. And the most popular book on the root tracker, Mark Lutz "Learning Python" is "only" 1280 pages. Moreover, judging by the fact that the two-volume book of the same Lutz "Python Programming" with a total thickness of 1984 pages follows, the first book will not make the reader an expert in Python. And then it's 21:00 and everything is tip-top, how so?

Answer 1

So how did he manage to learn them so quickly? For example, the C++ language, only 38 hours spent

Your mistake is that for some reason you decided that before studying at the ShAD, the author of that article was a complete zero in those disciplines that were taught in the courses. However, there in the article there are such words: "the code was not written very much, but I had enough programming at work, so I did not complete some tasks", "I became much better at programming in C ++". That is, firstly, the person at that time was already engaged in commercial development in C ++. Secondly, judging by the phrase "Is it difficult to enter the ShAD? In my opinion, it's easy to enter", the author had good knowledge in the field of algebra, calculus, combinatorics and probability theory. Thirdly, the author writes: "there is some error in the data, since I recorded the hours with some rounding, as well as reading some book, say on Python,
In general, it is silly to try to compare your learning rate with the learning rate of other people. There are too many factors influencing this.
And your question cannot be answered based on what you have described. You do not write what knowledge you have at the moment. Do not write what books you read before, what you are studying now. Maybe you took a book that is intended for people who are familiar with the basics of programming, but you yourself are not familiar with this? Perhaps you should take a simpler book or switch to video courses?

Answer 2

Author, you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the learning process.
This indicates the academic hours on which the discipline was read, and not the number of hours that a person spent on obtaining knowledge in the subject.

Answer 3

Instead of soul-searching and asking philosophical questions, sit down and study