I asked this question on Twitter but figure this is a good place to continue the conversation. What are your programming goals for 2019? I personally want to become proficient in GraphQL. I've dabbled enough to be intrigued, and now I want to know everything. Your turn!
Kelly Vaughn π@kvlly
What are your programming goals for 2019?19:22 PM - 01 Dec 2018
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i'd like to improve my Javascript skill und Code maybe clean my alt code with modern Code.i try to be happy with Vue js.
how about You???
Move from the automation world to the IT world: more apps and less onboard logic on machineries. Still the industrial B2B field is where I see myself (no consumer of mobile apps).
I also second the idea of contributing oss projects
For now my goals are pretty simple - Read at least one technical (or non-fiction to mix it up) book every month and try to continue stretching myself and learning. Part of that is pushing myself to figure out more problems on my own without leaning on my manager for mentor-ship until I've really gotten stuck for too long.
Proficient in C# and .Net so I can develop mobile, web, desktop and big data applications with an ease.
Not strictly programming, but get a strong grip on deploying Docker swarm
Started coding professionaly in 2017, in 2018 I started freelancing full time and despite its ups and downs it was a good year, but in 2019 I want to top my game as a freelancer to a whole new degree:
1) start blogging and vlogging about how i thought myself programming and become the first programmer to actively do such a thing in my small country and our native language. This means at least 50 blog||vlog posts in 2019.
2) make youtube tutorials in my native language. Topics to be covered: App Inventor for pure beginners, fundamentals of coding with JavaScript, and a small introduction to Ionic or Laravel
3) mentor at least 10 other people who want to learn programming. Become good at mentoring and helping people land their first programming job.
4) create my first digital product and sell it online
5) do at least two tech talks at meetups and overcome imposter syndrome fear
6) do a rewrite for my side project app which reached 15k downloads, but I've been neglecting it like a bad parent.
7) Deepen my knowledge of Laravel cuz it's awesome
8) my frontend skills suck, I gotta do something about it...
9) and last but not least: reprogram my subconscious mind for success :D
To dive into iOS development and to start logging my thoughts in a blog. I haven't been actively learning new concepts in the recent months and that needs to change!
It'll be too late to ask for support from the bootcamp (I think they've already kind of given up on me) I'm in, but I want to finish it. It doesn't even have to be finished next year but within the next few years. It doesn't have to be perfect, it just has to be me trying and done. Specifically I just want to know what the heck is going on with Javascript. I feel like I can understand theories maybe even concepts but once I put something in practice I'm just lost.
On another note, I wanna make one or two Bitsy or and/or Ren'Py games (maybe Twine if I decide to do a game jam)! I made a little Bitsy room this year and that community is just so wonderful I'd like to try again.
As I read through the comments, I also wanna say thank you for this post! I do want to add just take better notes/really enforce what I'm learning in this Learning on Learning course on Coursera. It's helping me be a lot more forgiving in my learning process (I used to cram for stuff all the time in high school and it let me scoot by) and try to override those bad practices by working on and re-enforcing new ones. I'm also trying to build my own PC and use more open source applications!
Build a data repository for research work. I intend to use python for the backend and IS for the front end but if you have experience in building this sort of thing, Kindly let me know.
Very simple: master Python as much as possible :)
I don't know if I'll be able to but I want to create my personal blog 100% programmed by me C:
I've heard Hugo and Gatsby are good places to start with static blogs! Maybe playing around with one of those can help? Good luck!
gohugo.io/
gatsbyjs.org/
Write more.
Getting a head start on it with the Advent of Code posts, but want to make writing my thoughts down a regular habit.
Outside of that, I want to start learning Elixir (my choice for a "new language a year"), and taking a bigger part in contributing to things (I'm a notorious lurker, and it'll be good for me to step out of my shell in that respect).
I've talked a little more in-depth about this elsewhere, but I'm honestly not the biggest goals person careerwise. Everything has changed for me so fast that if I had set goals a year ago they would be so different from where I ended up!
That being said, I want to get better at regex I think, and write a lot. I also wrote a bucket-list for things I want to do before turning 25, and some are code-adjacent related!
JAMStack, Search Engines,and ship ship ship!