I would love to motivate anyone studying — either as a full-time student or just taking a few courses online — to blog. In this article, I will explain why.
1. Documentation as a Way of Studying
One of the best ways to digest what you learn is to be able to articulate what you learned in your words and come up with takeaways. So, write a tutorial blog post or a comparison between OOP and functional programming, or anything that will help you understand in-depth what you are learning and know it by heart.
2. Someone Is Searching for What You Will Write
When I was an undergraduate, I had hesitations about my knowledge. I never thought I had anything to share with the world. Later on, when I graduated and started to work, I discovered that when I can’t figure something, I don’t go back to my textbooks; instead, I search online for quick tutorials and tech-blog posts.
3. Undergraduates Have More to Share Than Graduates
As an undergraduate, you learn computer science fundamentals and many subjects in-depth. You learn data structures, algorithms, machine learning, computer architecture, databases, and many other computer fundamentals. Once you are a graduate, you have a job and start focusing on coding more.
You start to forget everything that you studied before, your learning curve is less as a graduate, and computer science always changes. So if you worked as a software developer, you may forget those operating system classes about scheduling techniques, even though they may help you to enhance your code. So even though what you learn as an undergraduate seems normal and well-known, graduates will enjoy reading and learning from what you write in on a daily basis.
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