The latest articles on DEV Community by Alex (@newalex). https://dev.to/newalex https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F17787%2F1e83a7ac-c0a0-428d-be2c-0b662c506d78.jpg https://dev.to/newalex en Alex Tue, 20 Nov 2018 23:18:02 +0000 https://dev.to/newalex/discuss-how-do-you-think-of-miniprojects-that-are-perfect-for-learning-new-technologies-10k0 https://dev.to/newalex/discuss-how-do-you-think-of-miniprojects-that-are-perfect-for-learning-new-technologies-10k0 <p>As I’m sure many of you curious developers do, I have a huge list of technologies, libraries and languages I want to try, all written down in a note.</p> <p>While some people would argue that the main difficulty to go through this list is finding time, I have another issue that stalls me even more. To learn something new, I need to have some kind of idea, some goal, something to motivate me during the process. More specifically, I usually need to find an idea to go past the Hello-Worlds and the useless examples — I want to at least make something <em>demoable.</em></p> <p>However, while adding new technologies to the list seems very easy, coming up with little real-world projects isn’t. Finding <em>that</em> idea that motivates me to work with a new technology is my main difficulty and barrier to start, so my question to you is, <strong>how do you deal with this? Which kind of miniprojects do you develop to learn a new technology? What qualities do these projects have and why do you think they are good for this scenario? How do you go about finding ideas for them?</strong></p> discuss ideas project