How do you approach learning a new programming language if you already know one or more? Docs, Youtube, ChatGPT, …? Asking for a friend 😅 - ThreadSky

chriskalmar.dev • 95 days ago

How do you approach learning a new programming language if you already know one or more?

Docs, Youtube, ChatGPT, …?

Asking for a friend 😅

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parkbuddies.app•95 days ago

Take a code you wrote and let claude transfer it into another language. Study. Repeat.

parkbuddies.app•95 days ago

Thats how i learned that little bit of Go and Rust i needed and also some advanced JS.

chriskalmar.dev•95 days ago

Curious if that works, but interesting approach for sure.

vince-hi.bsky.social•95 days ago

A real project with GPT chat and read the doc in bed in the evening for a deep understanding

alifeinbinary.com•95 days ago

It’s hard to create a solution when you don’t have a problem to solve, so the best way is to think of a problem you’re motivated to solve or app you’d like to create and to try coding it as simply as you can. Frameworks can sometimes help but often add complexity and bypass important fundamentals

chriskalmar.dev•95 days ago

I agree 👌

akoskm.bsky.social•95 days ago

Build a simple project, like a JSON parser or a wc, ls, grep tool. That's how I learned some Go in no time..

chriskalmar.dev•95 days ago

Linux commands is a nice idea to implement 👌

akoskm.bsky.social•94 days ago

@johncrickett.bsky.social has a project dedicated to that :)

johncrickett.bsky.social•94 days ago

Yup, 78 project ideas here: https://codingchallenges.fyi/challenges/intro new one added every 2 weeks.

richoncode.bsky.social•95 days ago

Depends on next goal.
Leetcode is fun and since it may have the languages you already know, you can compare.

Less so if perf and data are not your focus.

chriskalmar.dev•95 days ago

Not a fan of leetcode as this is very limited in many ways, but I like the idea of comparing implementations across languages

richoncode.bsky.social•94 days ago

Agree completely. Like any tool, its good for specific tasks.

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