This was taught to me in college a decade. "Programming language is just a syntax, the core logic of getting things done is already available in your brain." Here is what i'd do A) Remember what you already learnt from your favorite language 1] Syntax 2] Libraries 3] Reference Documentation 4] Organizing your code 5] Building / Running Programs 6] Deploying code to farms of servers (if you are interested in sysops, e…
"Programming language is just a syntax, the core logic of getting things done is already available in your brain." Is this actually true, though, when jumping between programming paradigms?
No, it doesn't really hold up. To use an example of where I recently had to change the way I thought of things: you might have, say, an intuitive understanding of the logic to make a series of dependent network requests, any of which could fail, but you'll have to reevaluate that when you try a functional language with monadic futures.