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

[Bob Haugen]

If I can find a good mentor, I will ask for their suggestions for the
$100. But Quentin Holness seems to have the right idea...

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Quentin Holness <qholness at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> Gmail |LinkedIn | Hit Points
>
>
> 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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