How to Learn Things Quicker

Nowadays it's common for developers to build projects using different programming languages. But every programming language brings a new ecosystem which can be time-consuming to learn. During the lightning talk at Manchester Java Community, I covered what helped me to get up to speed with Java ecosystem after C# and PHP.

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1. How to learn things quicker
2. Mikhail Solomatin Software Engineer, BJSS https://www.linkedin.com/in/msolomatin/
3. Learning stuff Project You
4. Project
5. First day !Get a laptop !git clone … !one-liner for a local infrastructure !mvn clean install
6. documentation
7. good-first-bug (?)
8. pair programming
9. You
10. Usual approach
11. Learn on the job
12. Read pull requests
13. Use your commute
14. Read the source code
15. Watch your colleagues do the job
16. Thanks!