[Chicago] Ask ChiPy: How would you invest on building skills this year?

[Quentin Holness]

Given $100...
That would probably go to something other than pizza (read: *healthier*)
for a tech meetup.

Tacos.
Most certainly tacos.

Quentin Holness

*Programmer*

Northwestern University

Feinberg School of Medicine

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On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Joshua Herman <zitterbewegung at gmail.com>
wrote:

> If I have $100 to spend to improve myself I probably would invest in
> buying books related to data science and machine learning. I actually
> have done this. One of the books I bought is Python for Data Analysis:
> Data Wrangling with Pandas,
> NumPy, and IPython
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 7:56 AM, Randy Baxley <randy7771026 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Get involved with http://freegeekchicago.org/ and there SC3 hackers
> either
> > in person or on github, visit http://pumpingstationone.org/,
> > http://chihacknight.org/ and http://www.blue1647.com/.
> >
> > Consider the holes between fun coding and productive coding in my own
> path:
> >
> > http://randy7771026.wix.com/codepath
> >
> > which I think are finding an IDE/coding environment that suits me and
> > considering https://training.linuxfoundation.org/linux-courses though
> you
> > will quickly blow that c note.
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 7:23 AM, Tathagata Dasgupta <
> tathagatadg at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello ChiPy,
> >> When I see the mentees on stage showcasing their newly acquired skills -
> >> it makes me extremely happy and proud. And a bit jealous!
> >>
> >> Learning new skills is critical for software developers to be relevant
> in
> >> this fast moving land of technology.
> >>
> >> Say you have 100 dollars earmarked to become a better developer this
> year.
> >> How would you spend it - what would you want to learn, which books would
> >> you buy, any courses that you would take?
> >>
> >> How do you adjust your schedule to make room for picking up the new
> skill?
> >>
> >> --
> >> Cheers,
> >> T
> >>
> >>
> >>
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