I feel the most effective, most improved learning methods, can be called "Trilogy":
1. The first step, reading a book or document, do not buckle detail, just look at a ballpark. First, understand the general purpose framework to learn the language or technology, the other is able to read the code.
2. Find a suitable project, read about the code to be modified function, then modifying, debugging until run correctly. In this case, it can be said has been basically hands.
3. On the basis of imitation, use technology to develop new projects learned.
Some books can be used as reference, look it up. But the network in general can replace the book. In general, there is little not online, the book actually looking for something to get.
In fact, the code is not difficult to write. The hard part is finding the right project. I now look like practice book, chapter exercises after never not do. I must have a clear need to find practical significance of the project, will be hands-on programming. The results of the study, must be able to be made to meet the specific needs of normal operation of the program.
Of course, the book theory class, such as arithmetic, mathematics can be classified as a class of things, exercises are done.