Ask HN: What are you learning right now?

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by brickmort • 12 years ago

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fatalness• 12 years ago

Linear algebra by the David Poole's book "Linear algebra: A modern introducing" (not even learning seriously, just refreshing 'cause I am CS-graduate)

gabemesq• 12 years ago

Fuck yeah ok? Kiss lobe 💕💕

mswen• 12 years ago

I 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• 12 years ago

R 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• 12 years ago

I'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• 12 years ago

Started 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.

borplk• 12 years ago

Learning the Ada programming language. I can't believe I had not looked into it all this time. It's awesome.

partisan• 12 years ago

Grails. 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#.

Kakashi3• 12 years ago

Japanese. Got the JLPT N3 in two weeks.

maxdeviant• 12 years ago

Was this with any prior experience with the language?

Kakashi3• 12 years ago

I live in Japan and take regular lessons, so yes.

goochtek• 12 years ago

I'm also taking the N3 in a couple of weeks. 頑張れ！

Kakashi3• 12 years ago

Thanks! You too!

jason_slack2• 12 years ago

OpenGL and Chinese.

oseifrimpong2• 12 years ago

How are you learning your Chinese? What methods are you using and teaching materials too

rahimnathwani• 12 years ago

For a list of resources, see a previous answer I wrote here:

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_slack2• 12 years ago

As 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.

rubiquity• 12 years ago

I'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• 12 years ago

Machine Learning and Korean!

rmaratos• 12 years ago

JQuery! Can't believe how much I do in just a few lines.

gaze• 12 years ago

Quantum weak measurement and generating GPU code in haskell

mbrownnyc2• 12 years ago

I'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• 12 years ago

If you're reading books like that, might I also suggest Mindfulness in Plain English: http://www.amazon.com/Mindfulness-Plain-English-Anniversary-...

I found it incredibly useful.

mbrownnyc2• 12 years ago

Awesome 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 :)

springogeek• 12 years ago

C# for use with XNA. Working on an indie xbox/Windows game which I hope to port to MonoGame and other platforms.

whostolemyhat• 12 years ago

I'm picking up Node at the moment. Express makes it incredibly easy for me to knock up a REST API.

dotnick• 12 years ago

Objective-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• 12 years ago

Learning to make my first iOS app using Swift within 2 weeks. I'm almost done the first week...

zipc• 12 years ago

Django 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

oseifrimpong2• 12 years ago

I am learning RoR and Bootstrap.

rthomas6• 12 years ago

SICP. 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• 12 years ago

Angular js

sevilo• 12 years ago

programming-wise, AngularJS. Reading a few typography books on the side (finding it really interesting by far) :-)

murtza• 12 years ago

Hadoop.

krapp• 12 years ago

SDL2 in C++ and Android development.

zachlatta• 12 years ago

AngularJS and devops. CoreOS is so cool!

kovrik• 12 years ago

Learning Clojure

JoshCole• 12 years ago

At 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.

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