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Discussion on: February 25th, 2022: What did you learn this week?

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Goktug Erol • Edited

1) I find out that most languages have lots of similarities making a good learning algorithm grouping common things and different things makes any easier and super faster to learn any language, the rest is practice and experience.
2) I find out that dev community is actually a real community and anyone can contribute and create content, interact with anyone, before I had impression of "only employed content creators share their insights and all others just interact with their posts" but when I tinkered around for a while I noticed that it's for all devs and you don't need to be "better dev than anyone" to create content, I look forward to prepare my content even though it may not be perfect or super pro because I don't have 20 years of experience duh, but I've got the vibe.
3) I discovered some awesome old-school recourses based on maths and algorithms for some old-school game development, I look forward to use them in C.
4) There's no "best language" in programming, if you're good at any language, that's your best and you can do the best product with that.
5) Programming on Linux especially with C and Cpp requieres some different aditional methods, not all header files are available/same for instance... Some are windows specific, and it is a motivation killer when you face with red lines in a correctly coded program just because you use another OS... I spent a good 3 hours on web trying to figure out Linux equivalent of some very windows specific headers...
6) I found more productive ways than being limited into an IDE and it increased my creativity, the perspevtive of seing what I'm coding and helped me to find faster solution to problems.
7) I was trying to limit myself in specific areas in tech. However, I changed this ultimately and now I feel more free and learning more things, limiting yourself in a small square in tech. is not good, it's actually useless and you also lose opportunities to learn more things and kill your creativity.
8) I interacted with some Softie engineers this week, and they helped me to open my way of thinking about development environment, creative and analytical thinking... I lose my motivation fast but listening other people's challenges encourages me and help me to see that there are no errorless, perfect developer and not everyone starts coding at the age of 5.
9) Started a new hobby of buying and collecting tech stuff, retro pc's, retro pc parts, consoles, games etc.

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Nick Taylor

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