Ask HN: What are you learning?

#1

Post by blululu » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 3:56 PM UTC

What are you learning right now? My last side project was recently derailed and I am curious to hear what other people are spending their time studying/learning about.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

#2

Post by p2detar » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 4:04 PM UTC

I’ve started getting into Go. Looks good so far. Working on a side project, which is my best way to get into something new.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

#3

Post by _____smurf_____ » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 4:06 PM UTC

p2detar wrote: post #2

I’ve started getting into Go. Looks good so far. Working on a side project, which is my best way to get into something new.

what are your resources to learn the lang?

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

#4

Post by rangerranvir » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 4:10 PM UTC

Trying to learn Machine learning and writing about it. Latest post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22786374

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

#5

Post by wasi0013 » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 4:14 PM UTC

Exploring Elixir & Phoenix. Solved some AOC & exercism problems with it, and wrote a BF compiler. So far, enjoying every bit of it. The language itself is beautiful! Codes are available on my Github[1] account :).

[1] https://github.com/wasi0013/

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

#6

Post by p2detar » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 4:20 PM UTC

_____smurf_____ wrote: post #3

p2detar wrote: post #2

I’ve started getting into Go. Looks good so far. Working on a side project, which is my best way to get into something new.

what are your resources to learn the lang?

I read “Effective Go”[0], but what really helps me is browsing through the sources of various Go projects and libs in Github. I also keep a tab of Go’s packages docs open [1]. And of course there’s StackOverflow. In general I prefer learning from source code rather than books.

0 - https://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html 1 - https://golang.org/pkg/

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

#7

Post by zests » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 4:36 PM UTC

Computer networking. I’m reading through TCP/IP illustrated.

Also learning about Linux. I used macOS for about a year and thought that I knew “Linux” but now I’m seeing how far the rabbit hole goes. I installed arch linux and am currently just customizing it and immersing myself in the community. Eventually I’ll pick up a systems or operating systems book.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

#8

Post by rodolphoarruda » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 4:38 PM UTC

Infosec history. I'm just entered the PC era, so things tend to be more interesting from now on.

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

#9

Post by 38932ur98u » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 4:39 PM UTC

Ukulele/music theory and spanish

Re: Ask HN: What are you learning?

#10

Post by tomxor » Sun, Apr 05, 2020, 4:39 PM UTC

... Don't laugh: C

I learnt programming mainly through various scripting languages, some of which had some relatively simple visual output available, which I personally found invaluable for learning and visualizing.

I realized that better visual output was the main thing holding me back from doing more in C since there are so many options, often complex, involving much boilerplate. So my mini project is essentially exploring the simplest, most minimal possible ways of drawing pixels on the screen in Linux.

So far tried fbdev (but doesn't work well with X), now playing with XCB.