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Ask HN: If you only had 40 hours to learn a new IT based skill what would it be?
- rootj 13y agoLinux servers administration.
- codinguy 13y agoThat was definitely on my list :)
- rman666 13y agoThere are many many IT skills you could learn in 40 hours. Assuming you are not a complete n00b, how about learning Ruby and Sinatra (a "framework" for rapidly creating web applications). You could easily make it through the book, "Jump Start Sinatra," in less than 40 hours, for example. Is this the type of response you're looking for? If not, please clarify. Good luck!
- codinguy 13y agoMy wife and kids are away for a week in the near future, so I thought I would take 40 hours and learn something new. I have no idea yet as to what that will be, so I thought I would ask more intelligent people what they would do :) Thank you for the suggestion though!
- tonyoconnell 13y agoHow to build a lean startup with Steve Blank https://www.udacity.com/course/ep245 https://www.udacity.com/course/ep245
- mknits 13y agoEither Python or Ruby. Photoshop is also a good choice.
- junto 13y agoBoth Angular and Ember so I can at last make my own mind up on which is better!
- wwwwww 13y agowhat current skills do you have? I would pick a skill to compliment my current skills.
- revorad 13y agoGraphic design.
- yulaow 13y agoMh or ruby and rails (but 40h are not enough for both) or probably GO
- bennyg 13y agoState-of-the-art security and crypto.
- toutouastro 13y agonode or basic sysadmin or django
- dannytatom 13y agoAI (in games, mostly)
- bobf 13y agoMetrics measurement and tracking of some sort, depending on your area of interest and existing expertise. That could be Graphite and statsd, or a particular type of web analytics like Google Analytics or MixPanel. It takes roughly 40 hours to get a good basic understanding, implement, test, and start tracking useful things with each of those.
- caw 13y agoI'd go with NoSQL (any of them, overview of all of them?) or AWS/cloud stuff, because I'm already familiar with Linux administration and RoR. In the enterprise you don't get to work with that sort of technology, so that's where I'd spend my time.
- arms 13y agoPython. IMO, it's so well designed that you can gain a comfortable (albeit still beginner) grasp on it within 40 hours, especially if you have prior programming experience.
- AznHisoka 13y agoI'd learn Chef or Puppet.
- sachin0235 13y agojava script, node.js or PHP
- varunkho 13y agoWeb security and attack vectors, seriously. Will be helpful regardless of the technology you'll choose to build web apps.