Recently I have been feeling the thirst for new software development knowledge. I want to become more familiar with the programming language types which I am less familiar with.

Last week, I bought Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages by Bruce A. Tate from The Pragmatic Bookshelf.

The book covers the following languages

1. Ruby
2. Io
3. Prolog
4. Scala
5. Erlang
6. Clojure
7. Haskell

So far, I have read the Introduction and plan to get the Ruby chapter wrapped up pretty quickly. Each chapter is divided into 3 area’s, each designed to be tackled in a day. With my experience of Ruby, I am going to attempt this whole chapter in an evening.

I am going to write a short post about each chapter and new language as I get through them over the next 7 weeks!

What do you do when you feel the thirst for new knowledge?