The day I have been fearing the most, has come… It is the day that my brain decided to go back to “learn a little bit of everything in one day” mode -.-
As it was a sprint planning day, I came in this morning with several questions:
Is it time to deep dive into Functional Programming? meeeh… yes and no! I tried to follow Odersky’s coursera course in the past, but I got very very soon very very bored.
Instead, I got today 2 Udemy courses for scala and FP. The first one is for beginners - perfect opportunity to recap all the things I learned from the book and practise more. To be honest, I really like books, but I love video courses! I have taken several so far, and except for Ordesky’s, I had a great time.More Scala practice? Yes! Daily commitment to Exercism has only benefits and learnings.
What about something new and hands-on? Hell yeah! But more tba… ;)
More Bash? Yes! I thought I had a good knowledge of it until I came to HC. After my first self-assessment, I discovered how much more there is to explore - jq, cut, tail, less, more, tr, xargs ( grep and sed are already covered in a blog post ;) ) . But what’s interesting about this: I will learn it the hard way!
Za hard way?
Well, I had the impression my way is hard enough already! I found out about Zed Shaw and his hard way to learn programming and tools. It is all learning by doing with his books! Zed, you might be rude and aggressive, but the hard way, I have to agree, it is the most effective - always from a personal point of view. Actually, this has been my main issue all these years with books and especially with University’s books –> way too much theoretical! No sweat… The first book I loved was “Kubernetes In Action”, because it has the ideal (for me) theory - hands-on-examples ratio. Since then, I try to be careful with the books I choose and then always stop and practice.
The biggest learnings, the ones you never forget, don’t come when we know the rules but when we challenge ourselves and play with them ;)
Just get to know the basic concepts and in parallel struggle by implementing them in your IDE/terminal/piece of paper.