Just want to reiterate the comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13782032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13782032 and say that learning specific

Just want to reiterate the comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13782032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13782032 and say that learning specifically statically typed functional programming totally changed me as a developer. It opened my mind to the semantics of programming languages and to the design of programs in the small and in the large. If you're writing C, then you're a developer, no doubt about that. But if you're interested in the 'meaning' of programming and software engineering, then I highly recommend learning functional programming. Here's an excellent course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages/ https://www.coursera.org/learn/programming-languages/