Thinking of learning something new in 2013?

davestar_delux

davestar_delux

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But what?

I work as a software developer and tend to get involved in a lot of different technologies - scripting, Java, C++, DBs...

Looking to learn something new, useful and interesting just for fun over the next year? That's a long time so something difficult or complicated is fine, would be good to have a project or something to show for it at the end as well.

Anyone do anything similar? Or have any ideas I could learn?
 
iOS - from scratch
Azure - further
HTML5/CSS3 & jQuery - further
WinRT
Facebook graph API

refresh my 6+ years of C++

I'm doing all this through a personal project that was my wife's idea, and which has taught me Android and ASP.Net Web API and EF 5.0 through 2012 - its all coming together and has fantastic scope for future development with some good earning potential

You just need an idea
 
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topbanana said:
No love for Clojure?
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Worth adding to the suggestions, but I didn't really get on with it - other people are different, so I'd say take a look.

One pointed comment (a gentle bitch I think) from the scala guys at this years' skills matter conference is that scala can compile itself, but no-one's yet written a clojure compiler in clojure ;)

I'd recommend "Seven languages in seven weeks" as a good read.
 
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peterwalkley said:
I'd recommend "Seven languages in seven weeks" as a good read.
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I'm definitely going to get this book and work through some of it, seems really interesting having had a quick look at it. Thanks for the recommendation.

I now also have a project to do a friends website - he is a wedding photographer. So will give me a good chance to get all those skills up to a decent, up to date standard!
 
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