What I have Learned at Encora — 5
Well this week… I haven’t read or tried to learn something. It’s my fault, I have other things to do but, still I have a time to read or learn something.
But one of the things I have been relearning React and read a bit about React Native.
First begin with React , I have used React before, but because I haven’t used it constantly, I always forgot things. This library helps you building user interfaces. The great advantage about react, is the use of components. Using components makes your life more easy. You can focus in how the component looks, and use it in different other pages (or projects). This remind me a little about composition in functional programming. Building little components you can make a great web app.
On the other hand we have React Native. It is a framework that helps you create native apps for Android and iOS using React. Also you can share a bit of the code you use for React because Native uses the same code and components that is used for the web. The only difference are the platform specific components.
Also this week I got a little interest about the Colemak keyboard Layout.
It’s very interesting, because for English most of the words are written with only the center row of the layout (a,r,s,t,d…). And for Spanish maybe not as many as in English but you have less hand movement. This is great, but… Colemak is not so easy to learn, I have to practice a lot to get the ‘fluency’ I already have with QWERTY.
You can download the layout for your OS here: https://colemak.com/. This page also have websites for learn/practice it. I have been using to practice.
The last thing I have learned is about not have a close mind. And use the thinking of google, think in moonshoots. And also not think as a programmer but as the User of the system.
And this is all for the week. I haven’t learn so much. But learning a bit always is better that learning nothing.
