Complete this sentence: If I could add a new programming skill it would be...

Publish Date: Sep 27 '19

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If I could add a new programming skill it would be Python. It would be a new challenge and I think it will be an important skill to have now and in the future.

How about you?

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Holy-Elie ScaïdeSep 27, 2019

If I could add a new programming skill it would be embedded system programming. I love tinkering with devices (Digital Audio Player, Mechanical Keyboard, smart*) and I believe it will be a very marketable skill as a lot of our needs are met by those devices.
BradSep 27, 2019

If I could add a new programming skill it would be learning Clojure

I tried to learn it one time, as I was in awe of the idea of 100% functional programming, but had a very tough time wrapping my head around everything.
- JudithSep 28, 2019
  
  Closure is excellent; but definitely very difficult stuff. What do you want to use it for?
  - BradSep 29, 2019
    
    I was interested as an alternative to Java, and to potentially use it for more CPU intensive tasks. I read circleci uses Clojure as it scales extremely well.
    
    Overall it seemed like just a challenge to learn, and boy was it a challenge haha.
    - JudithSep 30, 2019
      
      👍
Alan SolitarSep 27, 2019

If I could add a new programming skill it would be machine learning. I always run into places in my projects where I would like to make train an awesome ml model. I have knowledge, but not extensive enough knowledge. A second skill would be devops.
- Charles LandauSep 27, 2019
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  - JudithSep 28, 2019
    
    OMG I have that. Its about 3 titles down on my reading list. Thank you for sharing those resources, too. If you have any more, please do share!
- JudithSep 28, 2019
  
  Totally agree - ML is the future: Along with AI, VR (better & Better).
Charles LandauSep 27, 2019
There's an absurd amount of stuff I want to learn
- RHEL admin stuff!
- Flutter!
- Ionic!
- Stencil!
- Svelte!
- Spring!
- Polymer!
- Xamarin!
- Ruby!
- Rails!
- Aurelia!
- PowerBI!
- Adonis!
- Sanic!
- Vue!
..and so many more
- JudithSep 28, 2019
  
  Love it! What about React?
  - Charles LandauSep 28, 2019
    
    React is fun! Even though I'm not an "expert" React dev I wouldn't call it something "new" for me. I not-so-recently demoed NLP in the browser using React. Check it out:
    
    Natural Language Processing... in the Browser???
    
    Charles Landau ・ Jul 16 ・ 6 min read
    
    #javascript #react #nlp #showdev
    - JudithSep 28, 2019
      
      that is very cool!
Chris CSep 27, 2019

Same for me Judith! I am taking a look through Kirk Byer's Python for network administrators course. And various other guides. But I need to practice on a project for myself soon.

If I had my choice, I would also be an expert in PowerShell. Quite useful as a toolkit especially now with Windows and Linux coalescing more and more.

Cheers,
Chris
- JudithSep 28, 2019
  
  So true! I remember I used to pray for a Linux subsystem in Windows! Win10 made my enterprise experience soo much better! Kudos on Powershell - that is awesome! Let me know how it goes.
Harit HimanshuSep 29, 2019

TypeScript. It fun to work with JavaScript, but I would surely appreciate the type-safety, IDE refactorings and the nice features that it provides related to Inference and Types
- JudithSep 29, 2019
  
  That is interesting. Typechecking has always been a little nebulous to me. Would love to see an "explain it to me like I'm five" post on this. I did find this: medium.com/ovrsea/checking-the-typ... and it was helpful. What do you think?
  Thanks for the input!
  - Harit HimanshuSep 29, 2019
    
    Not just as to guard against the input to the function, but also as designing a solution with Type System, so that the possible solution to a problem is constrained to only one solution using Types. I would see if I get an example to send it your way! Thanks
    - JudithSep 30, 2019
      
      Awesome! Thx!
Fulton BrowneOct 2, 2019

Node.JS, vue.Js, and Rust.

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