HACKER Q&A
📣 Anon84

What are you looking forward to learn in 2020?


Hi everyone,

With the holiday break coming up, many of us take advantage of the time to catch up on our professional or personal interests, plan out the coming year, etc.

What are you going to be learning/playing with during the break and in the coming year?


  👤 diehunde Accepted Answer ✓
Started to learn Go this month. Turns out if you have been programming for a while you just need to jump into coding challenges and surf the documentation. No need to read giant books or 10 hr courses to get started. I've really enjoyed the language so far. Next year I want to start learning more Go for developing web services and also more complex topics such as concurrency.

👤 thoughtpalette
React. 80%+ of the job postings I'm seeing for Front-end or Full stack include React in some way shape or form.

As an Angular dev (6+ years) it's clear the broader market is looking for something different.


👤 codegeek
Learn to Swim. My 5 and 6 year olds can swim but I can't. It's time for me.

👤 whateveracct
Haskell gamedev. It can be used for most _everything_ .. game logic, graphics, art & animation pipeline, sound effect generation, music composition, etc.

👤 marpstar
Getting back into audio production (which was my main hobby before starting my career) by way of solidifying my understanding of music theory and piano technique. I've "played piano" for years, but have never really studied it.

👤 markus_zhang
Spark and do some data engineering projects on my own. I want to transfer to BI and that's part of their job to maintain data pipelines. Plus it's further from business which is a huge advantage to me. Going to spend rest of my career life figuring out how to stay as far from core business as possible while still making enough money.

👤 arya-k
Learning vim and reading "Competitive Programmer’s Handbook" by Antti Laaksonen in preparation for programming interviews next year!

👤 peruvian
Go and React (re-learning, haven't dome frontend in a few years). Definitely a career-focused choice, but not unhappy or dreading it.

👤 balladeer
Go.

Carpentry (get back at it).

Drawing/sketching (I’m planning to take classes).

And learn about fields of work, or higher education options that can help me get into a mix of product and UX and slowly move out of full time coding. This bit seems the toughest.


👤 grafelic
Feeling at ease being myself.

👤 blendo
I'd like to "gain" some knowledge of opamps.

👤 lmiller1990
Some biology and genetics. I’m interested in bioinformatics, and need to get a grip on the sciencey stuff.

👤 karmakaze
Bass guitar. I rented one for $20/mo as a test and it's the most fun instrument I've ever tried with drums in second.

👤 tmaly
I would really like to learn how to make good video, the kind that people cannot stop watching.

I just finished teaching two elementary classes the basics of programming in Scratch.

I created video so the kids could review it at home. But when I am watching it, I realize it is super dry and boring.

I am not really where to start to find a way to learn this.


👤 PascLeRasc
I'm taking an EMT training class as part of my transition out of software into medicine. I'm very excited for it!