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Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one?

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On 25/02/15 13:58, fir wrote:
> I wonder as to above.. it seems that when i am doing programing i am 'in turns' optymistic and pessymistic about my energy and time, when i am optimistic i think it is okay to learn more technologies, when i am pesimistic i see it bad.. I wonder how it could be more sane answer to this not such based on "optimistic/pesimistic" as it seem weak as ground  to decisions..
> recent times i seem to tend to be pessymistic.. some thoughts maybe?
> (i know this is humanistic question hard to answer but maybe some kind of vision will appear)


Here is one sensible path among many:

1) learn a procedural programming language *really* well (something like 
C or Pascal). You may already have done this, of course.

2) learn SQL. This is absolutely the most important 
non-programming-language technology you could possibly learn.

3) learn HTML if you haven't already, and then learn how to create 
dynamic Web sites with PHP. Learn how to make it join up with SQL to 
create data-driven Web sites.

4) learn object-oriented programming (C++, say). Then apply your 
learning to PHP. Object-oriented PHP is in big demand.

5) look in the job ads (even if you already have a job). Find a job 
you'd really like to do, except you can't because you don't know 
such-and-such (whether it's XML, or SOAP, or JavaScript, or CORBA, or 
whatever it is). Spend a couple of weeks learning that technology to see 
if you get on with it. If not, drop it, and at least you've learned what 
it is and what it's for. But if you do take to it, incorporate it into 
your out-of-hours programming.

6) find something in Knuth that you haven't implemented yet, and 
implement it. In other words, continue to advance your knowledge of 
computer science. There's more to programming than The Technology 
Flavour Of The Month.

7) go to Step 5.

-- 
Richard Heathfield
Email: rjh at cpax dot org dot uk
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is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-02-25 05:58 -0800
  Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-02-25 16:46 +0000
    Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-02-26 04:31 -0800
      Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-02-26 12:48 +0000
        Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-02-26 05:33 -0800
        Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2015-02-26 13:47 +0000
      Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2015-02-26 13:11 +0000
        Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-02-26 05:45 -0800
          Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2015-02-26 13:56 +0000
            Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-02-26 06:20 -0800
              Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2015-02-26 14:47 +0000
                Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-02-26 07:17 -0800
                Re: is it better to learn a couple of platforms/technologies or just one? fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2015-02-26 07:30 -0800

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