Taking Your Programming Skills to the Next Level?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 25, 2006 @04:52PM from the your-next-belt-in-code-fu dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "About 6 years ago I graduated with a degree in Computer Science. Since that time I've been working on and off as a programmer, however I feel that my programming skills haven't really progressed to the next level as I had hoped. I guess part of the problem is that my work environment hasn't been especially technical or challenging, so I really need to try and improve my skills independently. What strategies did Slashdot readers use to improve their programming skills Which books are useful in this area?"

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That's nice by HuguesT · 2006-10-25 23:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic

but can it really work ? even assuming perfect voice recognition and perfect translation abilities (which we don't have), Human interpreters often have to wait till the end of a sentence to be able to translate a word, and real-time word-for-word is totally meaningless, if not impossible.

As an example, consider german, which can put verbs very very far at the end of a sentence in a stack-like manner (a bit like postfixed LISP).

To put it mildly this is a very challenging project.