some tips to boost learning efficiency?

That's usually a good sign you need to Take Five - just get up and walk a bit, maybe take a trip to the bathroom, get some water, look outside to check the weather, etc. Avoid simple distractions like checking Facebook or your phone - actually get away from technical devices for a few minutes.

The key part here for me is getting away from my desk for a bit - this gets the blood circulating again and helps to stay focused once I've returned. The above is to mainly get you out of the learning environment so your brain can sort of recharge but take note of the specific examples - stay hydrated, get some exercise, take care of body functions that can end up distracting you, tune in to nature. Make sure you are getting a good daily amount of sleep. All these things are important to your overall health which is very important to maintaining your ability to learn and think clearly.

Beyond that, practice practice practice. it's easy enough to watch the videos on here and complete the quizzes right away while it's fresh in your mind, but repetition is the surest way to embed something deeply into your brain. Coding is not a spectator sport (in other words, you cannot learn to play basketball by watching NBA games, otherwise we'd all be NBA level players) Just like basketball you'll need to practice your skills daily to make progress towards mastery.

Good luck!

I have a tips to boost learning efficiency that works for me.

is Motivation by set goals or project you want to do for fun and you study for that.

You will extremely motivated while you working on project and when it finish. Hooray !! You would be very proud of yourself ;)

Brandon Right now i am using a wamp server with sql database and apache server but the problem is that i can to the html and css part but i dont know how to do the back end part. I mean how to set reminder for a task and all that. and the guy ( hampton - i guess) who teaches php just blew my head with object oriented php part( just described it the way rocket science might be taught) . I want to Learn the object oriented part part first but it seems blood sucking.

Just frustrated..... can you guide me about how you learnt these things and got started with it.

that would be great if u can direct in the right direction.

and thanks for sparing time and replying me back

Programming is all about solving problems, and a big part of that is taking something that seems really complex and breaking it down into smaller and smaller pieces that are simpler to understand and think about. That's sort of the whole point of where OOP came from, but you can apply that to learning as well.

If a concept in the PHP OOP course seems too complex then take a moment to stop the video and go back and watch it again. A big, complex concept is usually made of smaller, simpler concepts so try and identify what the simpler pieces are and where it is you are getting stuck in your understanding. Then go google the different parts and try and do what you can to write some code that helps you understand the simpler concepts. Then go back and watch the video again and see if it makes more sense in the greater context.

It's great you already have a WAMP setup. If the OOP course is slowing your progress don't be afraid to go online and search for a simple tutorial on using PHP to generate the HTML and CSS stuff you already know and build a really simple website to host on your WAMP. Don't worry too much about what you don't know how to do, just add some placeholder comments to remind yourself to go back and add functionality later.

Most of my successes in learning come from not being afraid to make mistakes (and then going and finding out why what I tried didn't work how I thought it would) and from not giving up.

One thing I'm trying to start doing is to not get stuck on large projects. In fact, don't even start large projects, at least not while you're still learning.

Make multiple smaller projects that you know you can finish. Even if they are the ugliest, most pointless programs/websites/etc. You will learn a lot from them instead of wasting countless hours running into problems or learning how to do something better then recoding sections or even restarting your project because you found a better way to do it. Or even giving up halfway through because you get bored of it or something.

Keep it simple, stupid. ;)

Maybe this isn't much help, but it's a great way to actually finish projects and have projects to show for.