Learning 30 Technologies in 30 Days: A Developer Challenge by Shekhar Gulati.
From the post:
I have taken a challenge wherein I will learn a new technology every day for a month. The challenge started on October 29, 2013. Below is the list of technologies I’ve started learnign and blogging about. After my usual work day, I will spend a couple of hours learning a new technology and one hour writing about it. The goal of this activity is to get familiar with many of the new technologies being used in the developer community. My main focus is on JavaScript and related technologies. I’ll also explore other technologies that interest me like Java, for example. I may spend multiple days on the same technology, but I will pick a new topic each time within that technology. Wherever it makes sense, I will try to show how it can work with OpenShift. I am expecting it to be fun and a great learning experience.
The homepage of the challenge that currently points to:
October 29, 2013 – Day 1: Bower—Manage Your Client Side Dependencies. The first day talks about Bower and how you can use it.
October 30, 2013 – Day 2: AngularJS—Getting My Head Around AngularJS. This blog talks about how you can get started with AngularJS. It is a very basic blog and talks about how to build a simple bookshop application.
October 31, 2013 – Day 3: Flask—Instant Python Web Development with Python and OpenShift. This blog introduces Flask–a micro framework for doing web development in Python. It also reviews “Instant Flask Web Development” book and port the sample application to OpenShift.
November 1, 2013 – Day 4: PredictionIO—How to A Build Blog Recommender. This blog talks about how you can use PredictionIO to build a blog recommender.
November 2, 2013 — Day 5: GruntJS—Let Someone Else Do My Tedious Repetitive Tasks. This blog talks about how we can let GruntJS perform tedious tasks on our behalf. It also covers how we can use grunt-markdown plugin to convert Markdown to HTML5.
November 3, 2013 — Day 6: Grails–Rapid JVM Web Development with Grails And OpenShift. This blog talks about how we can use Grails to build web application. Then we will deploy the application to OpenShift.
November 4, 2013 – Day 7: GruntJS LiveReload–Take Productivity To Another Level. This blog talks about how we can use GruntJS watch plugin and live reload functionality to achieve extreme productivity.
November 5, 2013 – Day 8: Harp–The Modern Static Web Server. This blog post will discuss the Harp web server and how to install and use it
November 6, 2103 – Day 9: TextBlob–Finding Sentiments in Text
I encountered the challenge via the Day 4: PredictionIO—How to A Build Blog Recommender post.
The more technologies you know the broader your options for creation and delivery of topic map content to users.
Great! The Twitter approach to communications is spreading to learning. The real developer challenge would be to do anything useful with any of the 30 technologies “learned” in the previous 30 days.
Comment by clemp — November 7, 2013 @ 10:58 am
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@clemp
I don’t think you could “learn” enough to be dangerous on one technology a day, any more than many MOOCs will make you a data scientist.
What MOOCs and videos, etc. can do is give you an opportunity to survey many ideas and then develop them into actual skills on your own time.
Comment by Patrick Durusau — November 12, 2013 @ 12:07 pm