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When I began using Unity (the free Windows version of the game development platform) back in mid-November, I was "forced" to learn my way around both JavaScript and C#. I use only C# with it now, but I still spend a good bit of time translating others, more experienced users of the system, scripts from JavaScript into C# equivalents. It has been a very pleasant experience, surprisingly so actually.
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I've started to use Windows 7 - and there's all kinds of new language that's coming out of my mouth.
None of it is KSS.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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The new languages I learned have, for the last year+, been bread'n'butter.
SQL + HTML/CSS (oldies) are integrated with PHP/JavaScript (new, but > 1 yr); Sometimes (= often) all four on same page.
Once the dust settles on what does what so you can wrap your head around it, then it falls back to business-as-usual.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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...so that I can convert a couple of apps over to my Android tablet. But finding the time... 
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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... although I don't consider myself with enough knowledge if I don't put it in practice in a real world application.
Every year I try to learn a new language.
Read the documentation, see some and examples and at least just write a small piece of code.
I also try to actually deploy it on some sort of environment that might resemble a real work environment.
After that I have my knowledge, usually leaned some new stuff and... park it.
Rarely I needed that knowledge for whatever I was doing for work... and few, very few were even actually used later.
What I feel this practice actually gives me is an broader knowledge of the available tools, what they might be useful for and in what other ways I might be able to do the same thing that I'm already doing now but with a different tool.
Also with this knowledge, choosing the right tool for the next job is usually much easier.
I strongly recommend everyone to enforce this practice or at least to keep themselves on top of what's happening outside our own bubble.
Have fun!
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i learned php 
<cs1401>...
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Me too!
The quick red ProgramFOX jumps right over the Lazy<Dog>.
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I was lucky enough to learn two programming languages int the past 12 months: bash[^] and Python[^]. I've always wanted to learn the latter, but the former was a good surprise: not really beautiful, but very practical.
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...I couldn't really be bothered... 
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932
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and, while not a programming language, Ruby on Rails, which has gotten me to finally foray deeply into the world of HTML, Javascript, and CSS.
Marc
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How's it going?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: How's it going?
You'll find out shortly. I'm about to publish a massive article here on CP on basic authentication in Rails (Ruby is not something I would use except for the existence of Rails). It's intended to be an very comprehensive look at how this is done, pulled together from dozens of sources out there that one would otherwise need to search out. Sneak peak:
In this article, we will be working with:
Ruby
Ruby on Rails
Git
RubyMine
PostgreSQL
The Rails Interactive Console
Emails
Recaptcha
and implement a full authentication system in one place rather than as separate blog or article entries, which will support:
Sign Up
Sign In
Sign Out
Account Management
Password Reset
Basic User Administration
Exploring such features as:
Gems
Site Environment Variables
Database Migrations
HTML metadata
Controllers, Models, and Views
Application Layouts
CSS
Cookies
etc....
Should be posted by tomorrow, as it's 95% complete.
Marc
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Oh. Wow.
That's awesome.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I worked a lot on MVC last few months, so was all together different from .net as hard to link events. But found interesting and happy that I am able to add some new technologies to my resume 
Interested in leaning Android as well started even, but somehow can't see progress. Need to push myself for that.......
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Had great experience.. wanted to learn them since many days.. finally i did....
Coding my destiny, complining my future....
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I had to learn it at school and it can be incredibly tedious but it's fun to see how it all works.
The first rule of CListCtrl is you do not talk about CListCtrl - kornman
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nbgangsta wrote: incredibly tedious but it's fun to see how it all works.
Any assembly is tedious that's why they created higher level languages. I really like the AVR assembler, it's very powerful!
My AVR assembler tutorial[^]
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a f... pain in the a...
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Or in more polite terms: elegance of C coupled with raw performance of Smalltalk
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quite polite terms... 
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Nah, I think he got it right the first time...
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I started to learn it a few months ago. I'm surprised it's taken me this long, I've been using Linux for a long time. (Python is very popular on Linux)
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Same here. I had an opportunity to rewrite a C# utility in Python and used that as an excuse to learn the language. I really like the syntax and the fact that there is usually a single and obvious way of doing things. Still not a big fan of dynamic type system, though...
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I gather Python works quite well with C++?
Kevin
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It has C extensions which make it pretty easy to wrap up C++ objects. However, I haven't used it for that purpose yet.
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