Pachi 🥑

Posted on Feb 21, 2020

What are you learning this week? And why???

#discuss

Heya you people.

I go first:
I am learning Bootstrap and AngularJS because a job opportunity needs me to know those, but prior to that I didn't know much about angularJS and would never think about learning it.

Your turn.

P.s. picture of my new laptop and my new stickers collection, because... Why not?

Top comments (29)

Vicki Langer • Feb 21 '20

I've learned a few things this week.

I spent some time moping about and being frustrated that I've never managed to finish any "learn to code" program. Then I realized that's not really a problem and it might actually be a good thing. (actually, I should probably write more than a tweet about that)
I learned about a different way to handle files. @rhymes introduced me to pathlib
I am still working on figuring out how to fix a few things for Code Questions bot. Some of the questions are repeating too often. So, I'm reading through the docs to see if there is an option in random()
I read the below post and <3 <3 <3 all the feels

I got bored with asking my son for multiplication tables, so we programmed together a little game with Scratch.

Davide de Paolis ・ Feb 17 ・ 3 min read

#productivity #teachingprogrammingtokids #parenting #learning

Vicki Langer

@vicki_langer

I've never finished any single code course or plan of learning. I never finished going through @freeCodeCamp @DjangoGirls or @tangowithdjango, & stopped after 30 days of #100DaysOfCode, stopped after 18 days of #30DaysOfPython. All of these are awesome, 10/10 would recommend.

15:50 PM - 20 Feb 2020

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Pachi 🥑 • Feb 22 '20

Seems like you had a great and productive week!
I also never finished any program 😅 but started a dozen. And I "cheat" on #100DaysOfCode. I skip days then come back like nothing happened 😂😂😂

Vicki Langer • Feb 22 '20

😂😂😂 I don't think that's actually cheating. You're still doing it, right? 🤷🏼‍♀️

Pachi 🥑 • Feb 22 '20

Yes lol lol kinda

Vicki Langer • Feb 22 '20

Well, in that case, I wrote about why it's not the end of the world to not finish things.

I've Never finished a "Learn to Code" Program

Vicki (she/her) ・ Feb 21 ・ 6 min read

#beginners #codenewbie

Edwin • Feb 21 '20 • Edited

Figuring out how to nicely print only a specific section of a webpage, without breaking the markup or styling. Was playing with some HTML-to-PDF libraries, but they are all equally terrible in both the end result and documentation. Then I figured I could just use the @media print CSS rules to create a print preview screen. Then the user can just hit CTRL+P and only print the part that they want. Super easy! 🎉

oh and why? Just for work! :)

Pachi 🥑 • Feb 22 '20

That is great! I love how useful CSS is! And Soo underrated

Mike • Feb 21 '20

I am starting to dive into GraphQL. I am a long-time JS developer but also have projects with PHP/MYSQL. Trying to figure out the benefits and ability to move over old projects or start all new projects with GraphQL.

Pachi 🥑 • Feb 22 '20

That is great. I don't know much about GraphQL but I hear about it a lot

mogwai • Feb 22 '20

I'm learning React Native because I want to build a native Android and iOS app using my preferred framework (React!) based on an idea I'm working on.

In the backburner is my need to understand data structures. So there!

Pachi 🥑 • Feb 23 '20

Nice!!!! Share the app with us once you are done !

Octa • Feb 21 '20

I'm starting an internship that uses React and node.js in a while, so I'm learning React right now and might go back on my old node projects this weekend.

Good luck with Angular!

Prakhar Khandelwal • Feb 21 '20 • Edited

Nice. I am doing the same.
I have completed the "The Web Developer Bootcamp" course on Udemy by Colt Steele and currently doing the advanced version of the course.

Pachi 🥑 • Feb 21 '20

Thank you!
And that is great. I want to learn node at some point

Rafael Acioly • Feb 21 '20

I'm studying Algorithm and Data structure because i realized that i've already study a lot about the language that i work on and i'm starting to have problem with complex logic.

Pachi 🥑 • Feb 21 '20

That is very interesting. What resources are you using?

Rafael Acioly • Feb 21 '20 • Edited

Books, videos and code training platforms :)

Books:
amazon.com.br/Entendendo-Algoritmo...

amazon.com.br/Algoritmos-Teoria-Pr...

Videos from dev.to/vaidehijoshi (BaseCS videos)

dev.to/vaidehijoshi/linked-lists--...
dev.to/devteam/basecs-intro-to-bin...

Platforms:
codewars.com/
exercism.io/

Pachi 🥑 • Feb 22 '20

Thanks for sharing!

AxelleDRouge • Feb 24 '20

I am following a great tutorial on YouTube on building a game engine in Java.
Why ? because it's a fun way to use Java (I learned programming with it, but I am mainly a JavaScript developer), because I always wanted to learn gamedev without an engine (I am curious, what's OpenGL? what are shaders ? how does 3D visualization work ? What are matrix ? Wow, am I currently learning maths just for that ? And what about game design ? level design ? story telling ?... )
I would love to create a game engine in JS and maybe use it to build web app in 3D without APIs (I could use Phaser, but no, I want to know how it works)