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How You Learn New Programming Language?

Suraj Vishwakarma on December 10, 2020

Introduction Everyday we came to know new programming languages, framework that needs to understand and implement. Sometime we might b...

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Jan Schröder • Dec 10 '20

Get introduced to the topic
Get to know the new topics details
Verify you understood
Practice with tutorial
Transfer knowledge by applying what you learned in a personally relevant context.

Suraj Vishwakarma • Dec 10 '20

Great practice to kickstart something new

Jan Schröder • Dec 10 '20

Yes. That is the fifth point. Use what you learned on your own.

Suraj Vishwakarma • Dec 11 '20

Yesssss

Manuel Tancoigne • Dec 10 '20 • Edited

Have a small project in mind. It should be small to keep me in tracks and avoid getting overwhelmed by the work
Open documentation
Find how to achieve every bits of this small project while developing it
If the new technology feels comfortable/usefull, i may use it in my next bigger project

Suraj Vishwakarma • Dec 10 '20

Sounds exciting to try out🔥🔥🔥

Rishabh Singh ⚡ • Dec 11 '20

Here's my way of learning:

Before I even make my mind about learning a new technology, I do some research to know if it's actually worth learning or not
Once I think it's either profitable or enjoyably to learn, I begin by looking for the tutorial at all sorts of places but for the most part, I rely on Youtube as I am a visual learner, and videos work best for me.
Learning is pretty boring and useless if you don't learn how to implement it, you can start by coding along with videos and then pick up some beginner projects and get started with it.
This is the phase when you know all the basic things about that technology and its now time to rocket fuel your learning. So now let's begin by picking up a difficult project (not difficult but something which you can take as a challenge, something which will even force you to get deeper and learn more, like a chain reaction).
Now you have established a strong foundation on the particular technology, its time to get along with the community. There is a really high chance that the technology you are learning, has an entire community of devs dedicated to it. Go ahead and join it and interact with other devs and learn from them. Also now you are capable enough to get started and write your own blogs or make tutorials about that technology which will again trigger the chain reaction and you will get really fluent in it.

And that's how I usually but again, keep it simple you don't have to learn everything about a particular language or framework.

TL;DR Here's a summary:

Research
Begin with tutorials
Basic Projects
Mix & Match with another tech you already know
Try difficult projects
Join community
Repay the community by doing tutorials of what you learnt

Suraj Vishwakarma • Dec 11 '20

Thanks a lot for providing us with us detailed method that anybody can follow and learn everything ♥️

Rishabh Singh ⚡ • Dec 11 '20

Thank you so much for taking the initiative for the discussion in the first place. People like you are the ones who change the world ;D

Suraj Vishwakarma • Dec 11 '20

You took bro by contributing to the community ♥️

Matthieu Cneude • Dec 10 '20

Take a good book praised by the community of the language and depending on my needs
Go through it while writing all the examples
Begin a side project in the language when I'm able to boostrap it

I wrote more about it with the languages I learned using this method here: thevaluable.dev/how-to-learn-progr...

Suraj Vishwakarma • Dec 11 '20

Your article will help the discussion ♥️

Conner Ow • Dec 15 '20

I guess this is how I learn coding.

Find out what you want to create.
Research on what languages can be used to make what you want
Start learning and getting good at the language
Make a nice project with it
Continue on your coding journey

Suraj Vishwakarma • Dec 16 '20

That's nice idea to start something learning and developing some project along with it.

Andrew Baisden • Jan 18 '21

I read through the documentation API, find tutorials on the internet and on YouTube. See what other developers are saying about it on social media. While also thinking of real world projects that I could create with it.

Suraj Vishwakarma • Jan 18 '21

Project is the key to master any language

SunnyLight777 • Mar 30 '21 • Edited

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Galih Muhammad • Dec 10 '20

By suggesting to learn and develop a new small service at work using that new language/framework. Knowledge + Money are powerful incentives ^_^

Suraj Vishwakarma • Dec 11 '20

Nice idea 🔥🔥

creativcoder • Dec 28 '20

Here's one possible path:

Step 1: Learn a mainstream general purpose programming language - C/C++, Go, Rust, Java in-depth.

Step 2: Implement your favourite project (that covers most grounds of syntax and semantics) in the language learnt in Step 1.

Step 3: Goto learnxinyminutes.com to learn others. Pick one.

Step 4: Do step 2.

Step 5: Repeat Step 3 until Step 6

Step 6: Realize that most programming languages are syntax sugars on the same underlying concepts.

Step 7: Now you have the mental model to pick up languages on the fly.

Caveat: Might not apply to less famous paradigms such as logic programming, or languages like LISP.

Suraj Vishwakarma • Dec 28 '20

Oh great way to learn new language ❤️

kishan das • Dec 24 '21

i am always prefer forums and some other discussion groups or youtube for programming its a best way to solve problems when you discussed to your senior members of the forums..