Primarily doing JVM-based backend work, with some dabbling in Rust and other languages. Veteran of the Browser Wars with enough JavaScript PTSD to keep me away from the frontend as much as possible.
Location
Texas
Education
Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering
Work
Principal Software Engineer at A Telecom Network Monitoring Company
I think just like when learning math or physics in school, you should start with the "first principles", the building blocks of how things are done. You should know how to open a simple text editor, create a few code files and then be able to build them with the compiler.
Once you are familiar with that, move on to learning the common build tools and IDEs of your chosen environment and languages. Personally, I feel you will get more out of learning the tools along with the language rather than as an afterthought.
I can build an application with a text editor and the command line compiler, but I would never do that for anything non-trivial.
Thanks for the advice! I should have pointed out in the question that this is rather for a seasoned developer wanting to learn a new language quickly and not for someone new to programming...
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I think just like when learning math or physics in school, you should start with the "first principles", the building blocks of how things are done. You should know how to open a simple text editor, create a few code files and then be able to build them with the compiler.
Once you are familiar with that, move on to learning the common build tools and IDEs of your chosen environment and languages. Personally, I feel you will get more out of learning the tools along with the language rather than as an afterthought.
I can build an application with a text editor and the command line compiler, but I would never do that for anything non-trivial.
Thanks for the advice! I should have pointed out in the question that this is rather for a seasoned developer wanting to learn a new language quickly and not for someone new to programming...