I learned Verilog at my summer job, and discovered that FPGAs are freaking awesome.
(I also learned Perl and Python there, neither of which are awesome. Abandon hope all ye who enter the NetFPGA toolchain!)
Ask HN: Did you learn a language this year?
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#22I learned Smalltalk (Pharo dialect). It was awesome. Took me two weeks to go from zero to write a small rss reader in it.
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#23Nope. Far too busy building out our product.
Re: Ask HN: Did you learn a language this year?
#24This year:
- I wrote my first C++ app using Qt
- I tried getting into Django and RoR, coming from a PHP background. Unfortunately, I haven't yet had a chance to code anything worthwhile in either Python or Ruby.
My goals in 2012:
- Create a non-trivial Ruby or Python app. Still haven't chosen between the two. Ruby currently seems more popular but Python is used quite a bit in my company and for engineering applications in general.
- Program an HTML5/JS game, eventually using GameJS.
- Maybe learn Java for Android.
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#25Common Lisp, although I started learning it last year. I don't know if it counts, but I learned SQL and I’m currently studying relational theory in more depth. I also had to take a course on Prolog, but I'd be bullshiting you all if I said I knew prolog, I know enough of it to write factorial and reverse lists.
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#26went from PHP to a bit of Ruby and extended my skills in JavaScript land with learning CoffeeScript
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#27I learnt Python this year. I went from being a fulltime LAMP employee to contracting in Python.
In May I started spending a few hours every night after the gym working on Django apps, mostly re-building my blog and just fell in love with everything Pythonic.
In August I started applying for Python contracts around London and one came through in about three weeks. I've since managed to only be out of work eight days since the beginning of September. I've done well enough to take six months off and travel around Asia next year.
I'm really glad I did this as I was unhappy being an employee and LAMP coding felt like I was untangling other people's piles of cables all the time.
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#28I've learned/am learning Python for about a year now mostly because I've always worked with C type languages, except Pascal and (TI) Basic long time ago, and wanted to try something different. It's so much fun to program with it, I'm having some trouble wanting to use anything else.
I've also played with OCaml and R, not to the extent of actually understanding them, and learned a fair (i guess) amount of Octave by doing ml-class problems.
I think actually learning R may be on the table next due some dabbling in machine learning.
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#29C#, but that went hand in hand with the Visual Studio and IIS stack.
C# is good, IIS has a ways to go imho.
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#30I learned JavaScript and node.js