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Ask HN: What are you learning right now?
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- fatalness 12y agoLinear algebra by the David Poole's book "Linear algebra: A modern introducing" (not even learning seriously, just refreshing 'cause I am CS-graduate)
- gabemesq 12y agoFuck yeah ok? Kiss lobe 💕💕
- mswen 12y agoI have been learning about mapping. Using leafletjs to incorporate mapping elements in web applications. Building check-in operations based on current location, placing markers/icons and modifying the icon color to represent data values and making it easy for users to contribute location data that is currently missing from the data set. I am also exploring options for efficiently storing sparse matrix data, doing automated statistical distance/similarity analysis and storing all-to-all distance measures back into a database.
- 27182818284 12y agoR programming, Android development, and Lisp programming with Norvig's book. Android development. So far, it is the exact opposite of what fun with computers is.
- brickmort 12y agoI'm a Python programmer but I have some familiarity with Java, but I haven't really touched Java in over five years, so I've been refreshing my mind with the recent Java 8 docs and it's been a pretty fun experience so far.
- smoothgrips 12y agoStarted a project using AngularJS. I'm finding it quite fun and exciting. I have a decent JQuery background and find myself having to actively refrain from using JQuery. Trying to learning the "Angular way" of doing things.
- jason_slack 12y agoOpenGL and Chinese.
- oseifrimpong 12y agoHow are you learning your Chinese? What methods are you using and teaching materials too
- rahimnathwani 12y agoFor a list of resources, see a previous answer I wrote here: http://hn.algolia.com/#!/comment/forever/prefix/0/skritter%20by%3Arahimnathwani http://hn.algolia.com/#!/comment/forever/prefix/0/skritter%2... You _will_ need a teacher (native speaker) from the beginning, to correct your pronunciation (mainly tones) before you develop bad habits.
- jason_slack 12y agoAs wrong as this may sound. I read and have mostly Chinese co-workers to ask, correct me, etc. My local community college also offers classes that I am going to take in the fall.
- borplk 12y agoLearning the Ada programming language. I can't believe I had not looked into it all this time. It's awesome.
- partisan 12y agoGrails. I'm a C#/.NET programmer. I've been trying out Scala with Play, and Clojure with Luminus, and RoR before then. Grails is making me the happiest as an open source alternative to C#.
- Kakashi 12y agoJapanese. Got the JLPT N3 in two weeks.
- maxdeviant 12y agoWas this with any prior experience with the language?
- Kakashi 12y agoI live in Japan and take regular lessons, so yes.
- goochtek 12y agoI'm also taking the N3 in a couple of weeks. 頑張れ！
- Kakashi 12y agoThanks! You too!
- rubiquity 12y agoI'm spending a lot of my free with Erlang and Elixir, a Ruby-syntax inspired language that runs on the same VM as Erlang. I'm enjoying Elixir a lot and finding it adds some clarity to the little things I'm writing with it.
- tylerpachal 12y agoMachine Learning and Korean!
- rmaratos 12y agoJQuery! Can't believe how much I do in just a few lines.
- gaze 12y agoQuantum weak measurement and generating GPU code in haskell
- mbrownnyc 12y agoI'm learning how to be better. I started reading Farnam Street about two months ago, and picked up Ryan Holiday's The Obstacle is the Way two weeks ago. Meditations: A New Translation and Thinking Fast and Slow are on their way. I'm facing not a crisis of self, but a realization that I am at a point where in order to move forward, and achieve what I want to achieve, I have some huge ego driven flaws that require a megalithic perspective shift.
- imp 12y agoIf you're reading books like that, might I also suggest Mindfulness in Plain English: http://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Plain-English-Anniversary-Edition/dp/0861719069 http://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Plain-English-Anniversary-... I found it incredibly useful.
- mbrownnyc 12y agoAwesome I agree. Read this several years ago! Great book! The observer is such a powerful concept, also covered in practical detail by Holiday. Thank you, though, and check this out: http://lionserpent.com/unity.html http://lionserpent.com/unity.html :)
- springogeek 12y agoC# for use with XNA. Working on an indie xbox/Windows game which I hope to port to MonoGame and other platforms.
- whostolemyhat 12y agoI'm picking up Node at the moment. Express makes it incredibly easy for me to knock up a REST API.
- dotnick 12y agoObjective-C. A lot of people suggested I get straight into Swift but some of my clients need help with their existing apps so I chose to start with Obj-C.
- Chetane 12y agoLearning to make my first iOS app using Swift within 2 weeks. I'm almost done the first week...
- zipc 12y agoDjango and the Django Rest Framework. I develop android apps but it feels I lack skills in creating web services. Also, I'm learning how to solve problems - it's a tough one
- oseifrimpong 12y agoI am learning RoR and Bootstrap.
- rthomas6 12y agoSICP. It's my first introduction to functional or object-oriented programming. It's making me want to minimize mutable data/state in my projects from now on.
- kull 12y agoAngular js
- sevilo 12y agoprogramming-wise, AngularJS. Reading a few typography books on the side (finding it really interesting by far) :-)
- murtza 12y agoHadoop.
- krapp 12y agoSDL2 in C++ and Android development.
- zachlatta 12y agoAngularJS and devops. CoreOS is so cool!
- kovrik 12y agoLearning Clojure
- JoshCole 12y agoAt work I'm learning networking, writing effective javascript, building backend APIs for multiple consumers, and tastypie which is basically REST for Django. At home I'm playing around with algorithms for drawing trees, studying linear algebra, and taking the Coursera ML course by Andrew Ng.