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Ben Halpern

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What do you wish you had time to learn?

There are only so many hours in the day — which tools and/or disciplines in software development do you wish you could make time for?

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Michael Tharrington

I would love to learn how to use Unreal Engine 5.

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Tawhid

If you know C++ you can learn easily, when I started learning UE4
Cpp seemed extremely difficult to me but after learning cpp and other gamedev principles it was easy to pick up!

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Leandro RR

yes and maybe work in a game company

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Lee Wynne

Always, every time I play an awesome game I wish I had something to do with creating it.

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Adam Crockett 🌀

Same! In another life maybe

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SPABOI

Definitely. It’s one of my favorite game engines in the market. Really hope to get some time one day to learn game development too.

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abraham2

Me, too! I tried to install it on Raspberry Pi Desktop OS, but it gave me a fsync support error

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Sherry Day

I've really enjoyed following along at Wasm Builders, but just can't find the time to get into Web Assembly.

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Glenn A Miller • Edited

I'm using Rust to learn WASM. It's been great so far.

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Liviu Lupei

I would like to learn the following things:

  • To be more human
  • To not judge based on nationality, skin color, years of experience, etc.
  • To learn more about the users of the products I'm working on
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CoderZordar

lol poster meant in tech field, but okay. Best of luck!

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Liviu Lupei

Hi @coderzordar
Thank you for pointing that out.

But I did notice that, I always read the posts before commenting.

And I wrote that comment to point out that as a technical person, I should also focus on other areas, and not just learn 84358 libraries and frameworks.

We're not robots.

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CoderZordar

Yup, I understand.

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Constantin

Once the robot uprising has happened you will be sorry for this racist comment against robots

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Bernd Wechner

To play guitar.

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Chris Greening • Edited

literally everything 😭

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José Muñoz

Computer Vision, Machine Learning, AI in general

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Adriano Lupossa

A lot of things, so I build a roadmap for technologies that I want to learn:

The rules are only learn what I will use to not forget and what I can't learn now I will learn in the next year.

  1. Electron [ ✓ ]
  2. Angular
  3. Typescript [ ✓]
  4. Deno [ ✓ ]
  5. Design systems in depth
  6. Canvas e WebGL
  7. Unreal Engine (C++)
  8. Machine Learn and IA

Sometimes I reorganize some items and add new ones, based in my daily needs and the market.

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Lars Rye Jeppesen

Angular is so amazing. The most modern of the bigger frameworks. Working with observables and typescript is just amazing.

Ngrx/store is imho by far the best state management library. Typed, observable based.

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Bobo Brussels

I'd love to really take the time learn web design instead of just stumbling around.

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Gracie Gregory (she/her)

Italian! I speak French and never use it and I'd like to add another language to my arsenal that I'd get little practical use out of in Portland, Oregon 😆 I signed up for Rosetta Stone this week so hopefully I'll at least get a few basic phrases and words under my belt — it's such a beautiful sounding language.

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Jean-Michel 🕵🏻‍♂️ Fayard

Try out lyricstraining.com/
You will hear music videos in italian, along with 80% of the lyrics.
You task is to find the 20% remaining lyrics.
Best way to learn the language by hearing it :)

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Pontakorn Paesaeng
  • TypeScript but on backend side.
  • Backend development
  • Deno
  • More things to do beside being a frontend dev. I would like to learn about game development too so I can choose what I want to do for my career.
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Lars Rye Jeppesen

Typescript in backend is so nice to work with, compare do JS.
I feel it especially shines in the backend.

I'm a TS backend developer

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Pontakorn Paesaeng

A problem I found about TS is there are so many ways to setup a project. Some of them use ts-node and some use "build and watch". I hope I can learn about that in my internship.

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Matteo

have a look at nest.js

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Medea

I would like to learn more JS

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Felipe Armoni

Hey, maybe I can help you there.

I've been working with Software Development and Javascript / Typescript for some time now, and last year my manager introduced me to Functional Programming (FP). I liked it very much, and it completely changed the way I wrote code.

Maybe it can be interesting to you too.

These are some resources I found:

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Medea

Thanks, I’ll check these out!

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Ishaan Sheikh

Machine learning and AI.

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Rense Bakker

I would love to learn how to sleep like a normal person again :P

And maybe some ethereum javascript library for smart contracts stuff.

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Ece

Since I'm a self thought developer, I wish I had time for an extensive CS course. I'm a law graduate and I got into development after coincidentally attending a course, then I got a job as a junior frontend developer and I've been developing projects with React and RN ever since (3 years). So I kind of learned the stuff I need as I go, that's why I'm pretty weak when it comes to the fundamentals. I am looking into some simplified courses but even that is intimidating lol

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John Carroll • Edited
  1. Docker configuration, in depth.
  2. Command line tools like grep as well as bash scripting and advanced terminal usage
  3. Regex syntax in-depth
  4. Fundamentals of computer networking and firewall configuration
  5. Javascript ArrayBuffers