Demonstration: 1. Start with an observation

This demonstration course follows one small exercise: making a useful reading list. Each lesson is a separate post with its own address. Use the lesson navigation below to continue.

Choose something small

Imagine you have collected five articles and keep forgetting which one to read next. Begin with that specific situation instead of planning an entire knowledge system.

Write the question

Ask: which unread article can I finish in ten minutes? The question tells us which details the list needs: a title, a reading time, and whether the article has been read.

Try it yourself

Write down three articles you want to read. Give each a rough reading time. In the next lesson, we will represent one article as a small JavaScript object.

The shape of the exercise