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Do you typically just go through some tutorials till you get comfortable or do you actually write something in a new language you've been wanting to do ? How do
by crazydiamond 16y ago
Do you typically just go through some tutorials till you get comfortable or do you actually write something in a new language you've been wanting to do ?
How do you go about it?
Some of your languages like lua, and go have been on my list, too.
- RBerenguel 16y agoI try to code something, and then write some pointers for later use. To learn some PostScript, I wrote a randomly generated christmas postcard with Koch snowflakes and some other L-system fractals that looked good for Christmas, with Lisp I added a lot to Paul Graham's raytracer in ANSI Common Lisp (beside writing one program for a paper and some other odd code, Lisp is my second language to C, now). I am trying to write another raytracer, in Forth, but I just can't get to do it, so I will probably ditch it as a project. As for JavaScript (just know a little... I use it mostly as I would use C), I wrote some code I use in my blog. Learnt Java to do some assignments for the University... Lex for a tool to somehow parse C (long story :) and so on. I always try to write some code that will be "useful", or is in my list of "try to code this!" and well-suited for the language and then comment that code, thus I don't forget everything I used for it. But it is hard to have a lot of different projects, and sometimes (like in Forth) I stall :/