goal review for 2019

books

programming languages

• seven languages in seven weeks - done
  • things I learned when picking up a new language
    • understand language syntax
    • have reference handy
    • follow the idioms (style guide)
    • read documentation instead of hacking (such as on wikibooks)
    • check out forums, user groups
    • online playgrounds
    • read FAQs
    • find a good book to read and have a good understanding of the language - it will save a lot of time in the long run
    • do tutorials, exercises (such as hackr.io, exercism)
  • follow up books to read
    • programming in scala
    • clojure programming
    • clojure for the brave and true
    • haskell programming (haskellbook)
• seven more languages in seven weeks - started first language (Lua)
  • day 3 on first programming language - Lua
  • plan is to finish this book at some point but it’s not a priority right now
• beginning c++17: from novice to professional - not started
  • plan is to start and finish this book this year as C++ has become somewhat relevant to my work. some teams inside company use C++.
• haskell book (stretch goal) - not started
  • stretch goal for next year

data

• designing data-intensive applications - not started
  • postpone - current company has a lot of internal tooling and datastores

courses

MIT

• 6.006 - algorithms (introduction) - done
• 6.046J - design and analysis of algorithms - started
  • 2 lectures and 2 recitations
  • plan to finish during next year
• 6.849 - geometric folding algorithms: linkages, origami, polyhedra (stretch goal) - not started
  • postpone

coursera - extra

• Introduction to Mathematical Thinking - Dr. Keith Devlin (Stanford) - done

frontend masters

• the hard parts of servers & Node.js - not started
  • no current nodejs work
• deep javascript foundations - not started
  • no current nodejs work
• design for developers - not started
  • not relevant at the moment - mostly backend work at present
• creative coding with canvas & WebGL - done
  • code: https://github.com/mattdesl/workshop-generative-art
  • slides: https://static.frontendmasters.com/resources/2018-10-25-canvas-webgl/creative-coding.pdf
• introduction to elm - not started
  • not relevant at the moment
• advanced elm - not started
  • not relevant at the moment
• code transformation and linting with ASTs - done
  • https://astexplorer.net/
  • eslint plugins
  • babel plugins
  • codemods
  • https://slides.com/kentcdodds/asts-workshop#/
• interactive data visualization with D3.js (stretch goal) - not started
  • not relevant

acloud.guru

• machine learning - not started
  • might pick up as a stretch goal for next year but definitely not a priority
  • current company has a lot of internal ML tooling
• architect professional - done

masterclass - extra

• chris hadfield teaches space exploration - done
• neil degrasse tyson teaches scientific thinking and communication - done
• chris voss teaches the art of negotiation - done
• phill ivey teaches poker strategy - done
• bob iger teaches business strategy and leadership - done
• frank gehry teaches design and architecture - done
• anna wintour teaches creativity and leadership - done
• howard schultz business leadership - done
• joyce carol oates teaches the art of short story - done
• neil gaiman teaches the art of storytelling - done
• sara blakely teaches self made entrepreneurship - done

interviewing

• https://www.interviewcake.com - done
• https://interviewing.io/ - done
  • 6 pass
  • 1 fail
• https://www.pramp.com/ - done 39 mock interviews (13 Mar - 15 May 2020)
• https://leetcode.com/ - done ~ 100 problems
• https://projecteuler.net/ (stretch goal) - started
  • did 2 problems
  • plan is to continue when I get bored
  • problems are based in math. a lot of them require extensive background reading and use of dictionary as I’m not a native english speaker. definitely a fun to do though.
• companies
  • facebook - accepted offer (highlight of the year)

certifications

AWS

• advanced networking - done
• architect professional - attempted free prep test
  • didn’t get pass score on prep test
  • priorities changed and never got to do the actual test
• machine learning - not started

Google

• professional cloud architect (stretch goal) - not started