My journey in becoming a polyglot

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The document discusses the journey of becoming a polyglot, including definitions of what a polyglot is, languages that were learned like JavaScript, Ruby, C#, Go, and ML/functional programming, as well as principles like Parkinson's law, Conway's law, and the benefits of knowing multiple languages. It also touches on potential drawbacks like the 80/20 rule and challenges of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

My journey in
becoming a
polyglot
@TBOHNENJNR

What is a polyglot
 “A Person who speaks many langauges”
 “Having a command of many languages”
 Comes from Greek polu-, “many” and glotto,
“tongue”.

Parkinson’s law
 “Work expands so as to fill the time available for
its completion.“

Conway’s law
 organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce
designs which are copies of the communication structures of these
organizations

The foundation is important, know
your languages

ML / Functional
 “If you aren't in over your head, how
do you know how tall you are?”
― T.S. Eliot

Knowing other languages makes
you better at other languages
 Diversity Principle: “The usual
suspects tend to have the same
conversation and reach the same
conclusions.”
Peggy Holman, journalismthatmatters.net

A day of Go
Fancy Gopher, by Renée French

Drawbacks to being a polyglot?
 Pareto’s Principle (80 – 20 Rule): “80% of output
for 20% of input”

Challenge
 Dunning–Kruger effect: “Is a cognitive
bias wherein unskilled individuals suffer
from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their
ability much higher than is accurate.”

My journey in becoming a polyglot

1. My journey in becoming a polyglot @TBOHNENJNR

2. What is a polyglot  “A Person who speaks many langauges”  “Having a command of many languages”  Comes from Greek polu-, “many” and glotto, “tongue”.

3. VB5

4. Don’t make fun of the first graders

5. { C# }

6. Parkinson’s law  “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.“

7. Conway’s law  organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations

8. JavaScript

9. Nobody is perfect

10. Ruby

11. The foundation is important, know your languages

12. ML / Functional  “If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?” ― T.S. Eliot

13. Knowing other languages makes you better at other languages  Diversity Principle: “The usual suspects tend to have the same conversation and reach the same conclusions.” Peggy Holman, journalismthatmatters.net

14. A day of Go Fancy Gopher, by Renée French

15. • Find the time

16. Drawbacks to being a polyglot?  Pareto’s Principle (80 – 20 Rule): “80% of output for 20% of input”

17. Am I better for it?

18. Where to start?

19. Challenge  Dunning–Kruger effect: “Is a cognitive bias wherein unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate.”

Editor's Notes

#2: Fallen in love with computers and programming My name is Theo and I am a Software developer at Driven Alliance Encounters with different languages and the lessons these languages have taught me
#3: Command of English and Afrikaans Start with Zulu In software development terms, a person that can code in many different languages
#4: As I said I started with Vb when I was 12 Remember dragging text boxes Moving to varsity: tutorials, drag & drop Nobody mentioned bad design
#5: Who here thinks that VB Sucks? Vb is an easy language to learn, close to natural language Everyone has to start somewhere.
#6: Started work in vb Like all good professionals Learnt in 1 week Curly braces Still doing most of my professional development therein C# is intended to be a simple, modern, general-purpose, object-oriented programming language.
#7: Stock-Sanford: “If you wait until the last minute, it only takes a minute to do.”
#8: Monolithic class Poor design, against solid It compiles, now move on Good elements too, very focused on value
#9: Doing Web dev for while I ran into javascript Similar to C# and Different No need to specify type Static vs dynamic Felt like Rebel Rebel consequences, harder to read old code. Just because language gives you freedom doesn’t mean you can do whatever you want to
#10: Language developed by fellow humans Brendan Eich, Matz, Anders
#11: Matz wanted it to be fun. Everything object, splat, push operator, if after assignment Grin, smart and different Community is very passionate Ruby Dcamp Young Strong Same issues discussed as C#
#12: Rails is not a language Jump straight into code Spent a lot of hours on frameworks in career Frameworks are not bad
#13: ML is general purpose functional programming language Remember coursework and being challenged Concepts different: Heavy recursion ,no if else statements, Immutable values, Half completed functions Challenged my beliefs that OO is only way Other languages are visitors to functional concepts Dabbling in other languages, not settled on one yet but will
#14: My code has less side effects; return new world Diversity principle: Same conversations and same conclusions
#15: Don’t get to write code together Didn’t do justice to language but knew we had to know more
#16: Ask for a day a month Team building
#17: Benefits outweighs Disadvantages “Never be good in my own languages” Pareto Not cheating on Ruby
#18: Different ways to solve a problem, not just with code (why a lot of us started to programme in the first place) Right tool for the job Stock app More learn, faster pickup
#19: Ruby started with book, forgot and boring Ruby online videos Hello World boring, Code Katas Assembly Open source, mentors Small experiments
#20: Dunning Kruger effect? Zulu Just try, spend half an hour every morning Hambani Gahle

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