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Learning a new programming language, library, or technology
- Learn a new language every year
- Actually, I’m learning more in depth this year
- Focusing on T shaped skills, going deep as I’ve gone broad
- Keeping a cursory knowledge of newer stuffs, but focus on becoming an expert in a specific language or technology
- Why bother?
- Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t look around you might miss it
- In the last hour 8 new JavaScript libraries were created, 5 were deprecated, and 2 were abandoned
- Choosing a language
- Business Value?
- Marketability?
- Fun?
- Alternate Paradigm
- look on GitHub
- Solution in search of a problem (SignalR)
- How to get started
- Learn the basics
- logical statements (if, unless)
- looping statements (for, while, until, do, loop)
- assignment statements (var, let, yada yada)
- block statements (functions, classes)
- Learn the basics
Practical Test-Driven Development using C# 7
“Tempting Time” by Animals As Leaders used with permissions – All Rights Reserved
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An International Speaker, Author, and Microsoft MVP, John has been a professional developer since 1999. He has focused primarily on web technologies and currently focuses on C# and .NET Core in Azure. Clean code and professionalism are particularly important to him, as well as mentoring and teaching others what he has learned along the way.
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