Someone told me it is because what we learn basically creates patterns in the brain (New connections between neurons, perhaps).
Later in life, we have well established patterns. When we learn something new, brain tries to match it against existing patterns, either consciously or subconsciously. That's why we see blog posts like "React for PHP programmers" etc.
The problem is when brain get stuck in matching new concepts to existing patterns even when they are completely different.
I had the hardest time learning React & functional programming because I was looking at it from OO perspective. It took some effort but my learning accelerated when I stopped comparing it with OO & PHP.
Totally agree. It's not the learning itseft that's hard, it's the unlearning when it's different. In cases where there are beneficial similarities it can also be easier. I've gotten so much from multithreaded OS/2 gui programming that transferred pretty readily to various mvc-ish frameworks and eased into distributed services. The sooner you can recognize the limits of similarities it's usually ok. I did have a hard time getting git the fist time out having used many scs's before, it finally clicked when I related it to a journaling fs rather than a prev scs.
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Someone told me it is because what we learn basically creates patterns in the brain (New connections between neurons, perhaps).
Later in life, we have well established patterns. When we learn something new, brain tries to match it against existing patterns, either consciously or subconsciously. That's why we see blog posts like "React for PHP programmers" etc.
The problem is when brain get stuck in matching new concepts to existing patterns even when they are completely different.
I had the hardest time learning React & functional programming because I was looking at it from OO perspective. It took some effort but my learning accelerated when I stopped comparing it with OO & PHP.
Totally agree. It's not the learning itseft that's hard, it's the unlearning when it's different. In cases where there are beneficial similarities it can also be easier. I've gotten so much from multithreaded OS/2 gui programming that transferred pretty readily to various mvc-ish frameworks and eased into distributed services. The sooner you can recognize the limits of similarities it's usually ok. I did have a hard time getting git the fist time out having used many scs's before, it finally clicked when I related it to a journaling fs rather than a prev scs.