Ask HN: What skill will you try to learn over Christmas break?

5 pointsby tesmar2vor 14 Jahren7 comments

Over Christmas break, I was thinking to try and pick up Clojure, the functional language. I was wondering what other people are thinking about learning.

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ASpringvor 14 Jahren

Writing and releasing a simple Android application. The release part is really helping me focus on a less hacked together codebase.

ishbitsvor 14 Jahren

Backbone.js. I'm a backend developer but need to get up to speed on the new ways of doing the frontend.

flavien_bessedevor 14 Jahren

I'll start learning Scala more seriously, most likely with Coursera's help.

sunnybytheseavor 14 Jahren

http://libcinder.org/

digitalWestievor 14 Jahren

this has me fascinated. How are you getting on with it?

joeschindelvor 14 Jahren

I am working on rewriting a PHP application in Rails to learn Rails.

btivor 14 Jahren

D3 and possibly work more on a haiku generator.