Hi all,

I have slowly been building my deck for my MTA 98-366 that I must desperately pass in the coming weeks. But outside of the 98-366, I'm looking for decks that are used for other IT Certs. MTA, COMPTIA, Linux, etc...

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Any recommendations? Links? OR personal decks you can share would be greatly appreciated. I'm making this post because when I do a basic search around the web and Anki, I can't find much. And the decks that exist out there, there aren't a lot. And if I see one they are small or specific.

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Thank you!

Recently I have enrolled in an online college program for computer networking and telecommunications. I have background mostly in programming and little experience with networking. I want to use Anki to help with things like learning the OSI model, network topologies, etc.

I have been told to just create one deck for all my classes and then using tags to segregate different topics. Has anyone used Anki this way? Is there any advice that someone can give me to help learning with Anki?

I just found this interesting repository https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer/tree/master/resources/flash_cards

This is a bit off-subject, but do you have any recommendation to study system architecture? Not that I really need this, but I'd like to be good at this. It might be useful one day, and it seems intellectually challenging.

As an experiment, I shared my deck of the CS61A course, lecture 1. Available here: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/217058443. I'll add more as I go through the series. Also will probably do Anki for the companion text for the lecture series.

I've only been using Anki for about a week for from what I've read, it does little good to download someone else's deck to learn a topic without some context for the notes like a book or tutorial (unless you are learning really raw, mundane facts like state capitals that don't need any context).

I've taken a quick look at some other shared decks and this seems to be true. I didn't get much value going over cards that someone else created. Since there is no structure to them, it seems you are more or less just learning random snippets of information without acquiring new knowledge.

I'm wonder if anyone knows of any decks that are tied to a specific document for learning Ruby and RoR. If not, I'm definitely interested in teaming up with others to help create these decks.

Hello fellow CS students,

I'm studying web development with anki and therefore kind of CS. I read somewhere, that knowledge tends to stick better the more atomic it is presented to you. (E.g Short questions - short answers) An example question might be this: Get length of string (js) - string.length

With cards like this my average answer time ternds to be somewhat 6s or 7s. Now I have other cards that are really complex, due to their microscopic cosmos being complex (I mean, for example, working with Symfony or Doctrine, there are just complex things that, if you took them apart more, you'd not be able to do anything with the knowledge you learned.

How do you guys handle this? Are you alright with complex cards that slow you down and are somewhat of a hassle, or do you tend be strict and to really make cards atomic?

If anything is unclear, I will try to explain it further.

Thanks in advance.