Just like you said! Start a project with it, and learn what you need along the way. Obviously your code will not be all idiomatic on the first try, but that's O

Just like you said! Start a project with it, and learn what you need along the way. Obviously your code will not be all idiomatic on the first try, but that's OK. Along the way you will run into situations where you'll think, "There's got to be a better way," or "If only I could use X feature from Y language." Or maybe you need to debug something with a library you're using but you don't understand how it works. Those are perfect opportunities to learn more advanced concepts.