Ask HN: What skill will you try to learn over Christmas break?

Posted by tesmar2 on Friday December 21, 2012 @02:28PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Over Christmas break, I was thinking to try and pick up Clojure, the functional language. I was wondering what other people are thinking about learning.

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Re:Ask HN: What skill will you try to learn over Christmas b... by ASpring on Friday December 21, 2012 @06:48PM (#4955152)

Writing and releasing a simple Android application. The release part is really helping me focus on a less hacked together codebase.

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Re:Ask HN: What skill will you try to learn over Christmas b... by ishbits on Friday December 21, 2012 @08:57PM (#4955472)

Backbone.js. I'm a backend developer but need to get up to speed on the new ways of doing the frontend.

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Re:Ask HN: What skill will you try to learn over Christmas b... by flavien_bessede on Saturday December 22, 2012 @02:23AM (#4956055)

I'll start learning Scala more seriously, most likely with Coursera's help.

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Re:Ask HN: What skill will you try to learn over Christmas b... by sunnybythesea on Friday December 21, 2012 @04:25PM (#4954583)

http://libcinder.org/

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Re:Ask HN: What skill will you try to learn over Christmas b... by digitalWestie on Sunday December 23, 2012 @09:13AM (#4959482)

this has me fascinated. How are you getting on with it?

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Re:Ask HN: What skill will you try to learn over Christmas b... by joeschindel on Friday December 21, 2012 @06:40PM (#4955118)

I am working on rewriting a PHP application in Rails to learn Rails.

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Re:Ask HN: What skill will you try to learn over Christmas b... by bti on Friday December 21, 2012 @04:03PM (#4954508)

D3 and possibly work more on a haiku generator.

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