Episode 031 – Learning a New Programming Language

 
Learning a new programming language, library, or technology

• Learn a new language every year
  • Actually, I’m learning more in depth this year
  • Focusing on T shaped skills, going deep as I’ve gone broad
  • Keeping a cursory knowledge of newer stuffs, but focus on becoming an expert in a specific language or technology
• Why bother?
  • Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t look around you might miss it
  • In the last hour 8 new JavaScript libraries were created, 5 were deprecated, and 2 were abandoned
• Choosing a language
  • Business Value?
  • Marketability?
  • Fun?
  • Alternate Paradigm
  • look on GitHub
  • Solution in search of a problem (SignalR)
• How to get started
  • Learn the basics
    • logical statements (if, unless)
    • looping statements (for, while, until, do, loop)
    • assignment statements (var, let, yada yada)
    • block statements (functions, classes)

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