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Ask HN: Student with little free time, where should I focus the time I have?

I'm a guy who doesn't have a lot of free time on his hands between work, school, relationship, dog, etc. Life stuff I guess, and I know there are people far worse off than me with real life children and what not. There are so many different ways it seems I could spend the little free time I have that I'm not sure what would be most beneficial.

I'm told to work on leetcode to prepare for interviews when I do have them.

I want to learn python. It seems rather fun, I love how much you can do with it, and I have a bunch of ideas for small side projects I could do with it.

I told a small business owner I know I would look into making an app for them using iOS. Would be a rather simple CRUD app. I don't know any swift yet either. (Obviously something I can learn, but starting from scratch seem would make the process a lot longer).

I'd like to learn some javascript, there are a few chrome extensions that I'd like to make that would be fun and useful.

All I know is C++ from my first 2 classes.

My attention is being pulled in a million different directions and really, I'm getting nothing done. I want things I can put on my resume and overall want to just improve my programming skills and learn new things, but when I don't have tons of time each week to do that I don't know where to begin. I know I have to start somewhere. Let's say I have 7 or 8 hours a week at the very most. Any advice?

1 points jdbkv5 8 years ago 5 comments

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