A big part of being a software developer, and especially a consultant, is to learn new languages and frameworks as things change.

If you are the kind that like to go to a formal course or like me who prefer to more learn by doing and reading, the big challenge, if you don’t have a work assignment related to it yet, it can be a challenge to get familiar with the new language after you know the basics.

I’ve become a huge fan of using the various sets of Advent of Code tasks to learn new languages. Some are easy, others really hard, and I always find myself really getting to know each languages strengths and what the literal fuck’s by doing them.