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How to Learn a Programming Language (any)

1 Learn language basics

a Variable Types

b Operators

c Basic input and output

d Print something on STDOUT

e Basic program structure

2 Learning out basic data structures / containers

a Dictionary

b Set

c List

d Array

e That’s about it!

3 Learn basic file I/O

a How to read a file in

b How to write a file out

c Crazy mileage ( simple -> complicated )

d This goes from simple reading of a text file to… DATABASE Postgres, or mongodb (extremely complicated)

4 Learn networking basics

a Making HTTP requests with your language

i Learn how to GET, POST, DELETE, etc requests

ii How to set your requests properly, how to handle responses and status codes

b Learn some basic socket programming your language

c Overall, there are LIBRARIES out there to help you to do this

5 How to build your project and language

a E.g C++ you’ll have to learn how to build static libraries, shared libraries, how to link your

applications properly

b E.g Python developer You’ll have to figure out how to separate out your modules well

i Execution vs import style

ii How does this is all fit into your project?

6 Learn OO / functional programming paradigm tools

a E.g for OO you need to learn how to use

classes, how to use inheritance, how to use polymorphism, etc

b E.g functional You’ll have to learn how your language uses blocks or lambdas, how function pointers or callbacks work

7 EXTRA Goodies in any language

a Bag of trickies

b You can come back to here and learn the

subtleties and nice stuff of any language

c E.g Ruby has a lot of cool methods on

enumerable types