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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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I'm not sure about C++ but it has a lot of stuff in place for C.
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I was also busy with Python for few months and got some basics.
I wish, I could have written for my mind:
Mind.AsEnumerable().Where(m => m["EmptyCorner"] == "").ToList().ForEach(s => s.SetField("EmptyCorner", "C#, Asp.net, Linq, Java, .....Everyting"));
Mind.AcceptChanges();___________________________________________________
A little help through the tips and Articles
1. Table Valued Parameters
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Learning Java for Android Development and quite liking it.
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I've been doing the same; but my reactions have been the opposite of yours.
I've been reminded of why I dislike Java and why I utterly detest the utter PoS that is known as Eclipse.
On top of which I've learned that Google doesn't know how to make APIs that don't suck. A situation I'm defining as creating something with flaws such that 99% of the examples its search returns are catastrophically flawed (good luck finding an example of how to create a ui popup that can return a value and doesn't crash/fail to return on rotation, or how the lack of an ORM results in huge numbers of DB examples using string concatenation queries) and cases where doing it right becomes more of a PITA with newer versions (all the extra boilerplate needed to redo your UI in fragments).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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