Can you make a small timeline with the stuff you have learned so far? Let's stay with programming languages and frameworks only as things as design patterns and tools probably were being absorbed in the process, here is mine:
| Time | Learned |
|---|---|
| Point 0 | HTML + CSS |
| 6 mo | Stylus and jQuery |
| 1 y/6 mo | Javascript |
| 1 y/8 mo | Ruby and RoR |
| 1 y/10 mo | Angular 2 |
| 2 y | AngularJS |
| 2 y/4 mo | Shopify Liquid |
| 2 y/8 mo | React |
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HTML -> CSS -> Elixir (fail) -> C -> Ruby -> Javascript now :)
This is pretty approximate...
0y -> HTML
3y -> Java
4y -> Python
5y -> CSS
9y -> Java, but like so I'm good at it
10y -> bash
10y -> Flex/Flash
12y -> Javascript
14 -> Python, but for webapps
16y -> React
18 -> Docker
Not sure about the timings, but the order is correct
Flask and Go are also somewhere in there, but I don't remember when I learned those.
lol. What if you did all the other production coding (C, Java, Javascript, Scala) for years without ever "learning" HTML or CSS? Why does HTML or CSS have to be the starting point of a developer's timeline? HTML isn't even a programming language, may as well start with Typing.
From 2000 to February 2015, I was a dental tech. All code prior to this was as a hobby. There were some years sprinkled in there where I didn't touch code at all.
The "JS for real" note in 2014 is when I decided I finally had enough with the dental world and wanted to get into programming. After watching a presentation on Ember at a meetup, I thought I should get back to JS and really learn it this time. I dove into the deep end and recreated about 80% of the original (NES) Dragon Warrior using HTML5 canvas and JS. This was probably my first real/practical step towards the career transition.
I dabbled with Ruby in 2016 mostly to learn the syntax of it. Built a simple command line game with it and haven't done anything with it since.
Very interesting to see all these differents journey into code 🙂
By writing this down, I'm realising my learning pace is slowing down as time goes on!
Oh, fun question! A few major things I can think about
Nice way to put things, I wonder what conclusions I can take from that :)
(And yeah BERNARD is my own thing but whatever I spend a lot of time using it so...)
Cool idea, made me reflect back on all the good times I've had coding. So here goes:
Started work after year 5 and did the consulting thing for awhile. Now I work as a teacher at Blekinge Institue of Technology. Most fun I've had in years.
0 -> HTML/CSS
6m -> JavaScript
1-5y -> PHP
6y -> ASP
8y -> C/C++, Java
11y -> Assembly, Reverse Engineering
12y -> Go, Scala, Haskell
I have a graphical timeline for this at raphink.info/ (source is at github.com/raphink/CV/tree/gh-pages), but I guess it would go something like this. These are the years I started getting acquainted with the language, not necessarily using daily:
y0 -> BASIC (on a pocket calculator)
y2 -> HTML/Javascript/CSS
y3 -> 68x assembly (Mac OS Classic)
y6 -> PHP (personal website)
y7 -> Bash (started contributing to Debian/Ubuntu)
y8 -> Python + C/C++
y9 -> Ruby + Perl (started a job as a sysadmin)
y11 -> Puppet + Augeas
y15 -> JQuery
y18 -> Boostrap
y19 -> Go
y20 -> AngularJS
I started learning how to code at the age of 17(0), Finished BSc, currently finishing MSc. As can be seen, I hopped from one language/framework to another pretty often, mostly because of my Uni classes, but also driven by the work requirements.
Many more years to come, many more languages&frameworks to learn
Funny, here is my contribution:
From 1 to 5: learned in school
From 6 to now: self-taught
I don't go much to the university so I have time, but anyway I'm still new to back-end with Nodejs/express and MongoDB, and I'm still developing my front-end skills, I think forever xD
Here is mine :
0 -> HTML / CSS (if those count as a language)
6m-> PHP
(Stopped learning code for four years, I was 14 at the time)
4y -> Java
5y -> Python / Android
6y -> C / Assembly
7y -> JEE
8y -> Go