Learning something new quickly and having to quickly use it to accomplish something with a short timeline used to make me really anxious and a little bit scared. I really like to be comfortable with what I am doing before I set to accomplish a task. If I am learning a new skill, I like to make sure I get the whole picture and understanding of the skill before I use it. So, if I was rushed to try and build something of importance using something that I had just learned before I felt I was ready caused me to doubt myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This last week I have been very busy learning away. While some of the technologies we are using for our project are familiar to me there are a few that I have never touched. Most of my focus has been going toward learning Flask as that is what our backend will be built with. I am very familiar with Node.js as that is what most of my school projects were built in and also C# as that is what I used in my internship. Since I have already picked up and learned two other backend languages, I have to say that picking up Flask has been fairly straight forward. It is definitely more similar to Node rather than C# which is more of an object-oriented approach. Regardless, it\u2019s pretty amazing to me that it seems that I am finally at a stage where I am able to pick up new languages and frameworks pretty easy now that I have firm fundamentals. I had always heard that once you know one programming language or another that learning new languages and frameworks was relatively easy. I have to say that when I was first starting out that seemed crazy as I found learning Python enough of a challenge. I couldn’t imagine having to learn the intricacies of another language, but now here I am picking up Flask like its nothing. Having pretty much learned all the same principles using Node, picking up on Flask has been pretty easy so far. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Having gotten more practice in constantly learning new things and having to use them quickly I 100 percent have grown in my confidence to learn and execute quickly. I think part of that has to do with me understanding more CS fundamentals, so I have a better base knowledge to understand how new technologies fit together. This has given me more confidence to learn a new skill and use it quickly without the anxiety that used to accompany taking on such a task. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Until next time<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nathan Ramos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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