I have some very explicit goals to improve my coding skills and document my progress.
- Publish my version of the games Dr. Barski created for the Land Of Lisp Book
- Write a prime number sieve/engine that solves the idea2 challenge
First - I really want to understand Lisp and be able to use it, if fo rno other reason than my use of emacs could be greatly enhanced with this knowledge and I would have to rely less on the emacs wiki and more on my own custom solutions. Second, I cam across an interesting challenge for a job application. Even though I am not looking for a job right now the challenge was interesting because the email address was obfuscated and the challenge asks you to solve a problem with concurrency using the GO language. While I not really interested in learning a new language, perhaps if I was serious about the job application, I am interested in the challenge presented. Having seen the rise in popularity of node.js this would be a good opportunity to explore that and try to solve the problem at the same time. Why node js? as a web developer who is getting rusty hand coding html pages like it’s 1999 I need something to brush up my JavaScript skills on.
