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Here are the things I want to learn in 2017:

1) I want to learn Java and be an expert in it by the end of 2017. Also, some of the basic concepts of computer science. 2) I am going to start a new food website where I am going to create and share new recipes. I really want to learn so many new recipes and improve my cooking skills. 3)I am going to buy a Ukulele next week and I want to learn it so badly. This is going to my first musical instrument and I am so excited.

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I want to move out of the cloud. My apps should run on my own server hardware. I feel this is more important than anything else right now. Even growth.

I'm just wondering, why is it more important than growth?

Many good reasons. Here are two.

1. Cloud companies' best interests are not aligned with mine on issues of ethics, snooping.

2. Control.

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Growth hacking. I'd like to learn how to sell a SaaS product[1] to businesses. I'd also like to explore content strategy and marketing. As a software developer joining a new 2-person startup, this is uncharted territory for me. Looking forward to the experience. [1] https://www.metriculator.com

Starting a company involves so much marketing. SEO, SEM, etc. In the SEO domain, you need to pay a lot of attention to blogs and sites like Moz, rank tracking with services like getstat, make sure you aren't doing anything blackhat.

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I wanna develop the small desktop games via Godot for Linux and HTML5 in new year. I started to learn it and go on. And i participated goodreads challenge to read 5 books in new year. The most will be related to programming and operating system. I want to learn go programming, and read all chapters of Tanenbaum books about operating system and distributed systems.

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I want to learn Generative art! I really enjoy the intersection of programming and art. I have previously worked on couple of designs using python and it was amazing. I want to continue that again this year(once I have a full time job). I really think I can work some design that might sell too!

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Going back to the basics to solidify my foundation, one each quarter. Good Practice makes one a better engineer! Digital Electronics using [1] Operating Systems using [2] Functional Data Structures using [3] Graphics Algorithms [4] Any recommendations for these subjects sincerely appreciated. Thanks. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Design-Computer-Architecture-... [2] https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Operating-System…

> Digital Electronics using [1] Operating Systems using ... also, in case you are not aware of it, there is always the nand2tetris [ http://www.nand2tetris.org/ ] thingy (currently running on coursera btw). the book is also pretty good imho.

thanks signa11 for the nand2tetris reminder. I have worked through that book and it is really awesome. Worth the time and effort for anyone inclined. I had posted my review on Amazon as well. [1]

I think I should enroll for the Coursera thingy and have at least 1 certificate in my kitty ;-)

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/RZ4ME4QH22JML/ref...

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

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I would like to learn enough Racket to start coding some real-world applications.

I am finding the Racket documentation a bit problematic: it's either "learn this super-specific things with no prior introduction" (example: the "continue" guide) or "learn everything from the very ground up" (example: the racket guide or how to design programs).

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Re: Ask HN: What do you want to learn in 2017?

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Category theory. It's such an interesting idea.

I'm going through this series aimed at programmers by Bartosz Milewski, finding it pretty great so far. https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbgaMIhjbmEnaH_LTkxLI...

Thanks, but my lingua franca is math, not programming, i'm a pretty bad programmer actually :(

Did you find anything from a "practical mathematician" type of view?

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