Interesting Talk: "Una vida descubriendo Agile"

I've just watched this wonderful talk by Antonio de la Torre

• Una vida descubriendo Agile

Interesting Talk: "Improving as developers"

I've just watched this wonderful talk by Belén Albeza

• Improving as developers

Interesting Talk: "El camino del aprendizaje"

I've just watched this really interesting talk by Modesto San Juan and Ronny Ancorini

• El camino del aprendizaje

Interesting Podcast: "Learning From The Past with Arlen Walker"

I've just listened to this great Ruby Rogues podcast with Arlen Walker talking about learning from the past:

• Learning From The Past with Arlen Walker

My path to Clojure: Intro

As I'm doing with JavaScript, I'm going to start recording my Clojure learning path.

Where am I?
I'm a complete beginner in Clojure but I've been playing for a while with Racket (another Lispy language) in these two Coursera courses:

• Introduction to Systematic Program Design - Part 1
• Programming Languages

So let's say that the parentheses don't make me fell dizzy anymore :)

I really enjoyed working with Racket in these two courses. I wanted to learn more Racket but I had also been hearing a lot of good things about Clojure, so I didn't know which one to choose. Then I watched this great conversation between Rich Hickey and Brian Beckman: Inside Clojure and I made my mind to start learning Clojure.

At the moment I'm reading this book by Stuart Halloway and Aaron Bedra:

• Programming Clojure (2nd edition)

I'm also attending the Clojure Developers Barcelona meetup.

So let's the Lisp cycles continue forever, I'll keep you posted on any news.

My path to JavaScript: Intro

What's all this about?
I've been playing around with JavaScript for a while, but now I want to really deep dive into it.

There are a lot of resources to learn JavaScript: tutorials, blogs, on-line courses, books, etc. Some of them are great, some of them are not, but it's hard to know in advance which ones will be useful for you.

The goal of this series of posts will be to leave a trail of bread crumbs to follow so that my learning path into JavaScript can be reconstructed in the hope that it might be helpful to someone.

I know that different people learn in different ways and start with different backgrounds, so probably my learning path won't be good for many. However, I think that a record of the resources that helped someone to actually learn something might serve you to start mapping an unknown territory and give you some ideas to try in order to learn something new.

Where am I?
Every journey starts somewhere. Mine starts after playing with JavaScript now and then for a while and reading a couple of books. I'm not a complete beginner.
This is what I've done so far with JavaScript:

• I finished Codecademy's JavaScript track
• I read JavaScript Enlightenment by Cody Lindley cover to cover.
• I did Carlos Blé's BDD for RIAs with JavaScript Workshop.
• I did Tomás Corral's on-line JavaScript Best Practices Workshop in EscuelaIT (in Spanish) a couple of weeks ago.

Even though the last two might sound advanced to you, none of them are things that you can master after a four days course. For me they were just great samples of the kind of cool things that you can do with JavaScript and helped me to create a map of different areas in JavaScript land. Now I will really start walking it.

I'll keep you posted.

Interesting Talk: "What are you going to do with your life?"

I've just watched this interesting talk by Robert Nyman:

• What are you going to do with your life?

I think it's worth watching and also somehow related with the moment I'm living now.