[stoicjumbotron]

I don't know why the comments are so negative. I agree that the fundamentals are important and that you can then learn almost any language, but OP might have a different learning process and getting the hands dirty might be helping him and honestly trying out a new language along with making your fundamentals clear does not hurt anyone.

[raydiatian]

Frankly the article reads like it’s an Instagram post that you’d find with #blessed on it or some other self-important nonsense. Which is fine if the target audience is juniors—look at all the cool stuff this guy is doing because he’s continuing his education. But then he gets the content of the message wrong, so to other seniors it’s kind of open season.

[z3c0]

Agreed. Personally, the way I overcame my lack of a complete college education was through learning multiple languages. Researching the way different languages solved the same problems - and why - helped me understand the fundamentals, as I didn't have an algorithms or data structures course to lean on.