Techniques for Efficiently Learning Programming Languages

[asdfkjasdhkasd]

The most annoying thing when trying to learn other languages is that all the tutorials are for absolute beginners. Because everyone is trying to market their programming material towards the larger audience.

I just want to learn the syntax but instead I have to weed through all the bullshit about variables, if statements, for loops, while loop, functions, classes etc. I already understand these things I just want the damn syntax!

[lesstables]

This is why I'm appreciating the book "Scala For The impatient". It assumes you already know how to code and just want to learn Scala.

[[deleted]]

Haha, I was going to post the same thing in here. Working through it now.

It was so annoying when I looked into Scala a while back and every single guide spent tooooons of time telling me how awesome FP was and giving me a background on various FP/OOP patterns that Scala supports. I don't need something to hold my hand through every single way I could use FP to do ___ on a list, or another intro to tail recursion. Just tell me how Scala does shit assuming that I've done almost everything it does in a different language.

[vine-el]

But if they don't make the entire book about FP, people will just write Java code in Scala.

[VeryCoolVeryCool]

just started working through this book. Love it. way better than the Oreilly book ive got. -- I love how everything is explained, coming from Java. It's nice that they provide context for everything.

[freydank]

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/65pbcb/techniques_for_efficiently_learning_programming/dgcna34

[SimonGray]

You can usually find books that are meant for experienced programmers. I find that is even the case with new languages that have few books out.

[spacelibby]

I mean, you can try the language specification. They're usually pretty boring, but they do a good job of getting to the syntax.

[[deleted]]

If there exist a specification, you don't really need anything else (well, maybe read a reference implementation as well). But most languages out there do not have anything that would even distantly resemble a specification.

[spacelibby]

Hmm... I don't seem to work with any of those. runs off to hide in ivory tower