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This is a bad question cause it comes off as judgmental and everything... But what do you think you are getting out of a "platform" when it comes to learning a
by zifpanachr23 2y ago
This is a bad question cause it comes off as judgmental and everything...
But what do you think you are getting out of a "platform" when it comes to learning a language?
I agree with keyle that you'll learn more working on a real project than doing a platform curriculum that is usually designed around beginners.
Just my personal hot take. I like exercise I suppose if that's the sort of thing you really think would be helpful.
The only reason I'm giving you this answer is cause you said explicitly "for senior devs". I don't really know any senior devs personally (that would admit to) using "platforms" or exercises to learn new languages. For me, I open up the docs and start writing a project, and I think that usually gets the job done learning a new language a bit faster.
Most platforms are way too beginner oriented, and you'll rarely get anything that requires more than a small amount of code...it's tough to learn a language very well until you have more than say 1000 lines and are seeing how the tooling and modules and whatnot really work on a realistic size of project...
- acuozzo 2y agoThe usefulness of beginner materials really depends on how big of a jump it is, no? Going from writing firmware in C & asm for 30 years to Haskell would likely require more than just documentation.