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Challenge
- Pick up a programming language that you wish to learn.
- If you don't know which language to choose, try to pick up one that broadens your horizons.
- From now on, let's refer to that language as Foobar.
- Don't be afraid if this is your first time touching Foobar: just relax and have fun.
Steps
Warming up
- Start reading Wikipedia article on Foobar, paying attention to:
- which paradigms Foobar follows.
- design decisions: what kind of problems Foobar aims to solve?
- Complete an introductory course 'a la' Foobar in 20 minutes.
- There must be good introductory videos on youtube; try some
Get your hands dirty
- Complete codecademy free online course for Foobar (if available).
- Find and practice as much katas for Foobar as you can.
- Get familiar with Foobar common idioms and libraries.
- Search for popular stackoverflow questions for Foobar.
- Solve problems from platforms like hackerrank, codewars, etc using Foobar (if available).:wrench:
Go beyond
- Embrace its community: join relevant Slack/IRC channels and/or e-mail list.
- Study source code of popular (i.e. starred) projects using Foobar.
- Maybe you find something to improve or you fix a bug: contribute with a patch!
- Think if Foobar could help to improve some areas of your work repositories.
Outcome
- You've realized the beauty inside that language.
- You've learned new points of view to approach problems.
- Maybe you have found areas where the use of Foobar could improve your work.
- You've enjoyed Foobar that much that you are eager to keep hacking it beyond this week.
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