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"...I don't see how you could effectively encode your knowledge of a programming language on to flash cards."

I've occasionally wondered if an Anki deck composed of Clojure idioms would be valuable. It would be dependent on paredit conventions, teaching "shapes" along with symbols.

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I have a Clojure Anki deck of function-name -> the output of (doc function).

The reason I started it was because I just kept forgetting the names of functions. I'd know exactly what I wanted the code to do, but then I would find myself not remembering the which word to invoke to do it. The flash cards have helped a lot there.

I'm not sure how you would fit an idiom into a flash card, but try it out and see how it goes.

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