Channel Update: The Holidays and Beyond
Its been about 3 weeks since I started really pushing my material on Steemit and the associated platforms of the Steem blockchain. Prior to this, I was mainly using the Steem blockchain as I would any other social media platform: for promotion. I realized in these past few weeks that Steemit really is less about promotion and more about creating something of value for the community. It was in this realization that I found myself making more videos then I normally would. I first started my blog/channel for personal reasons but what drives me to create content more then anything these days are the kind comments and thirst for knowledge of the subscribers on YouTube and the readers on Steem.
With the Holiday approaching, I wanted to make a quick little post expressing my gratitude to the readers and curators here on steem. Without any of you, I would not be making as much content nor would I be striving for top shelf quality in both my content and presentation. For your words of encouragement and countless up-votes I am eternally grateful and I hope that you continue to find my content to be enlightening and entertaining.
I will be taking a short break for the holiday. When I get back I will be aiming to make multivideo projects for Rust; I have a few ideas already (a text editor, an operating system, a terminal emulator, a symbolic mathematics system etc). These projects may be too ambitious for a small educational channel but i'd like to think that I will be able to pull them off in a way that is interesting. After the Rust videos conclude, I will be turning backwards to do a few projects in Go, Elixir and Elm before moving onto the next programming language ( I am looking forward to doing a Phoenix tutorial for Elixir because of the changes from 1.2 to 1.3). The current contenders for the next language that I want to cover include, Scala, Kotlin, Dart, Clojure, ReasonML, and F#. I will probably be holding a bunch of different polls to decide which language to look at next so look forward to them.
Anyways, stay safe this holiday and as always keep coding.
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Thanks for the useful İnformation
Happy Holidays; I hope you enjoy the upcoming content.
I must say I am impressed by your ability to switch between languages with such ease.
Ease isn't the word I would use at least as far as writing idioms is concerned. Since I am trying to teach the languages properly I do have to make sure that I am not trying to write Monads in the middle of a Go app because I was just using Haskell (this has happened before). At least as far as the channel goes, I make sure to do a little light reading before I start doing a project.
The rest of it comes with experience, once you've learned a functional language or an imperative language and you've written some enterprise level stuff in both, its isn't that difficult to pickup a few more languages of the same paradigm. The difficulty would come from learning the idioms and the syntax of each of the languages. Knowing Scala really helps with learning Rust and F# for instance even though Scala uses a Java/Smalltalk type syntax, Rust uses a more C meets Haskell syntax and F# is a pure ML language.
A long time ago, I chose to be language agnostic because I realized that programming languages fit into use-cases despite them being "multi-paradigm and generalized". You can make a square peg fit in a round hole if you sand off the corners off, but why go to all of that trouble if you already have a perfectly sized round peg.
Merry Christmas to you and your family and happy holidays !
To you as well. Have a happy holidays.
interesting post!
Thanks, I just wanted to share my gratitude to my supporters and give them a heads up on the holiday content drought. No video tonight unfortunately, but ill be starting up again tomorrow.
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