Re-starting programming, using Dart ...

[Mayuresh Kathe]

Hi,

I have been away from software development for close to 8 years now.

In the interim, I have managed to only keep in touch with various changes by way of just fiddling by way of code snippets.

On deciding to return to programming as a full-time career option, I managed to fall in love with Dart, and managed to write two (broken) code snippets;

https://dartpad.dartlang.org/28291051278222094618 which was bad because Kasper Lund showed me how it's actually done in Dart;

https://dartpad.dartlang.org/ce3a3cd7048575ce9f2e

and my second snippet;

https://dartpad.dartlang.org/63f2d73dfa5d7faaeb09 which too is probably in the wrong vein of doing things using Dart.

I do remember the basic constructs, and hence figured that Seth Ladd and Kathy Walrath's book followed by the one by Gilad Bracha might be a good way forward for me, but, if there's a better path, would like to know about it.

At the moment, brushing up on Mathematics (elementary and discrete), CS theory and OOP theory.

I would appreciate any help by way of suggestions and recommendations.

Thanks,

~Mayuresh

[Harry Terkelsen]

Your FizzBuzz looks fine to me. I have not read Gilad's book, but "Up and Running" was a nice intro to the language. Personally, I think the best way to learn is to find an interesting Dart project on GitHub, assign yourself to an issue, and try to fix it.

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[Cristian Garcia]

I dont know, Dart feels like a simplified version of C#, learning is very easy, documentation is great. With 8 years of experience you should have no problem just reading the docs and official tutorials out there.

[Jim Trainor]

Investigate the aspects of Dart programming that may have fallen outside you prior experience. e.g. If you were developing Java before then Dart's functional aspects, and support for mix-in may be new.

[Mayuresh Kathe]

Actually, I have close to 24 years of experience, just that I have _not_ coded "full-time" in close to 8 years because I was dragged into management roles (due to seniority). Hated every moment of the management track, and hence took the conscious decision to move back to programming full-time.

Dart feels like intriguing, especially because of it's haunting similarity with Smalltalk and Self. Both environments and languages I loved, but couldn't work in commercially because of lack of opportunities, figured, Dart, with it's support and blessings from Google would be an ideal programming language to work with now on.

[Thomas Schranz]

I found the style guide(s) very enlightening:

https://www.dartlang.org/articles/style-guide/

https://www.dartlang.org/articles/idiomatic-dart/

(nudge: I wish there was a talk about idiomatic Dart on the next summit)

[Thomas Schranz]

Forgot those two:

https://www.dartlang.org/articles/api-naming-guide/

https://www.dartlang.org/articles/doc-comment-guidelines/

:D

[Bob Nystrom]

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 9:04 PM, Thomas Schranz <tho...@blossom.io> wrote:

https://www.dartlang.org/articles/style-guide/

https://www.dartlang.org/articles/idiomatic-dart/

(nudge: I wish there was a talk about idiomatic Dart on the next summit)

But that would cut into my MC duties!

- bob

[Vadim Tsushko]

пятница, 8 мая 2015 г., 21:16:43 UTC+5 пользователь Bob написал:

But that would cut into my MC duties!

- bob

I have to say this somewhere - you were very good with these duties on summit. And generally - thank you very much for your work with community. It does make a difference somehow. 

 

[Bob Nystrom]

On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Vadim Tsushko <vadimt...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have to say this somewhere - you were very good with these duties on summit. And generally - thank you very much for your work with community. It does make a difference somehow. 

\o/

- bob