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I learned Javascript and a bit of Python online, but I'd learned Perl years before that by reading the O`Reilly books. What works for me is learning on a "need
by oblib 9y ago
I learned Javascript and a bit of Python online, but I'd learned Perl years before that by reading the O`Reilly books.
What works for me is learning on a "need to know" basis. JS and Python are not so different than Perl, and most all languages have common traits and features so it comes down to learning syntax a lot of times.
I am not very fluent. I reference APIs and sample code, and head to Stackoverflow for answers a lot, but only when I need to and I don't hesitate when I need to because you can waste a lot of time doing that.
- superasn 9y agoHaha I guess those are languages too, rather this being hacker news it's what comes to mind first. That's great advice by the way. I too started with perl and pretty much followed the same route. I wish learning real languages was equally easy as googling stack overflow and learning it in the process!
- oblib 9y agoIt honestly never occurred to me this was about "foreign languages". lol!!!