Learning
Posted on August 11, 2005 - Filed Under Programming
I got an email yesterday from the trijug saying that Andy Hunt of the pragmatic programmers was giving a presentation at their monthly meeting last night. It got me a little depressed since I live in developer hell aka upstate sc.
His talk was on learning… how we acquire new skills. Him and Dave Thomas (the other pragmatic programmer) have a new article on their website about learning which had a couple of interesting points. I have a long list of languages I want to learn or maybe new parts of languages that I already “know” that I want to learn. He said that instead of saying that you want to learn python or learn ruby that you should be more concrete. That saying that you want to learn ruby is hard because at what point have you learned ruby? Instead, you should say that you want to “be able to write a web-based application that manages your to-do list in Ruby.” He also goes into saying that you should create a timeline which given my past experience is a waste for me. I end up not having the time to do something for a day or two which gets me off schedule and it goes downhill from there. I’m not real interested in a web based todo list so I’ll have to come up with something better. My hosting company doesn’t support anything other than perl and php anyway.
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