How to learn a new programming technology: 1. Read the Getting Started 2. Build the most basic "Hello World" 3. Find a few vids / tutorials, watch & read them 4. Dig into more complex docs 5. Turn Hello world into something more complex 6. Teach it to someone else (blog / video)

1:55 PM · Jul 13, 2020

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7. Downvote a question on Stackoverflow and write a comment - 'What a dumb question'
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7. Rebuild a small existing feature with this new library when possible I'm currently learning @recoiljs more deeply by replacing MobX for state management in a small piece of an existing app. This is great for revealing pros/cons of moving to newer tech.
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my two cents, quoting the legend:
John Carmack
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My advice to people wanting to get into game programming has been to write small games completely from scratch while also working on commercial game mods and with unity or unreal. I’m following that myself for AI — I have some C++ backprop-from-scratch projects while also \
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Yup. Been spending the last few days trying to get APIGW to trigger a Step Function after a successful Request Authorizer invocation, via Sls/CF. It’s been brutal. But I’m learning a lot, and it will make for some great content.
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To be more explicit about connection to OP: Project started off as a simple SMS service. Now trying to secure the endpoint with layers of redundancy. 90% of the resources I find cover “how to do this piece of it the console”🤬😂
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I did same with rust. Day before yesterday I made a program where you could enter a number to get the corresponding Fibonacci no. (step 5) will be soon on step 6 😎
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Yash, if you don't mind can you share why are you learning Rust language? Any reasons?
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Point 6. Is super critical!
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6 is important!
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Is there a standard thing you do for step 5? Like do you make a todo app or something?
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I think it depends on the technology to be honest. Maybe if I'm learning a CSS framework, implement responsive design, grid, or flexbox. If it's an API, implement a CRUD app with auth. If it's a front end framework, implement routing with some data fetching and state mgmnt
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