This gist is based on a blog post by Jason Rudolph, with additional inspiration / blatant theft from these forks:
https://gist.github.com/blaix/1134309 https://gist.github.com/fogus/1138647
This fork has been modified to match my personal goals.
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Programming Achievements: How to Level Up as a Developer
Learn a variety of programming paradigms:
- Write an application in an imperative language
- Write an application in a functional language
- Write an application in an object-oriented language (PHP)
- Write an application in a prototype-based language (JavaScript)
- Write an application in a logic programming language
- Write an application in a concatenative language
- Write an application using the Actor model
Experience the ins and outs of programming for different platforms:
- Write a nontrivial web app (various)
- Write a nontrivial desktop app
- Write a nontrivial mobile app
- Write a nontrivial game
- Write an embedded app
- Write a realtime system
Learn a variety of programming languages:
- Write an application in JavaScript (various)
- Write an application in PHP (client applications at Cyberitas)
- Write an application in Go
- Write an application in Rust
- Write an application in Clojure
- Write an application in Elixir
- Write an application in C#
Learn significant frontend frameworks:
- Write an application with Angular 2
- Write an application with React/Redux
- Write an application with Vue.js
Learn significant backend frameworks:
- Write an application with .NET (C#)
- Write an application with Phoenix (Elixir)
Get comfortable in a variety of IDEs/text editors:
- Use vim exclusively for a month
- Use emacs exclusively for a month
- Use IntelliJ exclusively for a month
- Use VS Code exclusively for a month
- Use Visual Studio exclusively for a month
Get comfortable in the major operating systems:
- Use OSX exclusively for development for a month
- Use Linux exclusively for development for a month
- Use Windows exclusively for development for a month
Enhance your understanding of the building blocks that we use as developers:
- Write a networking client (e.g., HTTP, FTP)
- Write a device driver
- Write a B-tree database
- Write an application or framework that provides a plugin model
- Write a testing framework
- Write a programming language
- Write an operating system
- Write a game engine
Enlighten yourself with koans, katas, and the wisdom of ages:
- Complete five code katas
- Complete the programming koans for a language that you want to learn
- Attend a code retreat
- Read SICP and complete all the exercises
- Read a standard
Gain a formal computer science education:
- Earn a Bachelor's degree
- Earn a Master's degree
- Complete the Algorithms, Part I course on Coursera
- Complete the Algorithms, Part II course on Coursera
Program in the open:
- Contribute to an open source project
- Have a patch accepted
- Earn commit rights on a significant open source project
- Publish an open source project
- Perform a Refactotum of an open source project
- Contribute to a standard
Learn by teaching others:
- Present a lightning talk
- Present at a local user group
- Present at a conference
- Deliver a training course
- Publish a tutorial
- Publish a constructive code review of an open source project
- Write a programming book
Get your hands dirty with hardware:
- Write some code for a single-board computing system
- Write a hardware emulator
- Build that same CPU from discrete parts
- Build a small machine around your CPU
- Write a program for your machine
- Build a robot
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