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.