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Ask HN: How to retain the knowledge of syntax

1 pointsby hastesalmost 7 years ago
I am a self taught web developer, I have written a few full scale applications and fully understand OOP principles and MVC structures. I can write using Java, PHP, JS, and a few more to a good degree.<p>My problem is that when writing applications on my own I seem to find myself going back to specific syntax and constantly looking up methods I have used many times from either previous work or documentation in order to complete parts of code.<p>How would I go about better retaining the specific syntax&#x2F;methods? Do I just need to continuously keep writing applications in order to memorize it, or should I have this in memory already and I am doing something wrong?

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