Well there are still people making a living writing FORTRAN. Can you survive? Yeah probably. Will you be happy? Are you happy now? Conventions can be cool for

Well there are still people making a living writing FORTRAN. Can you survive? Yeah probably. Will you be happy? Are you happy now? Conventions can be cool for social purposes, but if you want to learn something new that is substantial, that's not going to happen in a week. There is only one way to learn code, and that is to write code. No shortcuts :(