What did you plan to learn in 2018 and what did you actually learn?
Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?
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#2I planned to learn French, but je ne speakez it bien. Hopefully 2019 is the year.
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#3Google cloud platform. Got certified as architect in exam beta.
Kubernetes...
... and Salesforce (as a sales representative).
I know, completely unrelated stuff; but worth every minute.
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#4- Flutter: yes I did
- First project fully in javascript (as a backend developer this was a hard one): yes I did
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#5I planned to go from beginner Python to employed developer. Went a bit off track and learned the basics of lots and lots of languages. Kept switching the domains I wanted to work in.
I studied a fair bit of CS, but in a fairly shallow way (it's been a decade since my last maths lesson).
This year I proved to myself I could learn lots - next year is proving I can do the same, just in one or two things!
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#6That Django is neither the mental megalith nor archaic project I thought it was. It's actually a joy to program with and extremely flexible, without getting to e.g. Java levels of verbosity. I've not learned close to all of it yet, and have relied upon more glue code from blog posts than I'd like to admit, but it's actually pretty nice, and definitely Pythonic!
Which reminds me, the Java I knew from 6 or so years ago is apparently nothing like the Java of today..!
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#7Learned Elixir and Italian :D. Both are very rewarding experiences and somewhat similar in concepts of how to approach them.
What was the hardest ? Elixir.
What was more enjoyable ? Italian.
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#8I planned to learn React and modern JS/Web dev (had been doing iOS/Swift dev.) Instead, my dev. manager left and, since I was the most senior person on the team, I was given the job.
So, instead of learning React, I learned that I kind of like dev. management, or at least some parts of it. I also learned that I like traveling for work. I would never have thought that this would be so, but I was encouraged to try it and to my surprise it's working out well.
Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?
#9I planned to learn React and modern JS/Web dev (had been doing iOS/Swift dev.) Instead, my dev. manager left and, since I was the most senior person on the team, I was given the job. So, instead of learning React, I learned that I kind of like dev. management, or at least some parts of it. I also learned that I like traveling for work. I would never have thought that this would be so, but I was encouraged to try it a…
What kind of dev work do you do that requires traveling?
Re: Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?
#10I planned to learn React and modern JS/Web dev (had been doing iOS/Swift dev.) Instead, my dev. manager left and, since I was the most senior person on the team, I was given the job. So, instead of learning React, I learned that I kind of like dev. management, or at least some parts of it. I also learned that I like traveling for work. I would never have thought that this would be so, but I was encouraged to try it a…
What kind of dev work do you do that requires traveling?
It's mostly because the dev team is geographically disperse (India/Boston/Seattle). I also have to meet with customers occasionally and of course they could be anywhere.