rafa8a

To expand a little on the title, I'm a CS student which has been having a little problem finding where to focus his mind and concentration.

I mean, with these huge assortment of technologies, and branches, it's kind of difficult to know what is worth pursuing and what not.

Everything excites me, from the most minuscule detail of the human body, to the greatness of the universe. In response to this thirst for decoding how the heck everything works, I remain indoors reading for pretty much the entire day.

So my question, goes for those of you who have experimented this (and I'm pretty sure many of you had, after being an avid reader of HN), how did you solve this dilemma? and how did you integrate this to the problem of having some of money to survive?

It has been 3 months since I started dieting, and exercising on a regular basis as a plan to become a more healthy person. I have lost 20 pounds by now, and have gained some insight about how nutrition works by reading the hackers diet and articles over the Internet, however, I dont seem to get the full picture about how the whole process works, and would love to hear recommendations about some books that would help me understand about how metabolism, fats, carbohydrates, and everything else that is involved in nutrition operates.

I have the following questions related to an application me and my team have to develop for a chain of supermarkets, for a school subject.

The situation is the following: we are very fluent in developing applications with PHP, but our teacher wants us to develop it in a different language.

The amount of time we have to finish the app, is 2 months approximately.

So my questions are related towards knowing if its feasible, to learn a new language in order to develop a system.

The questions:

1.- Which is the minimum time to learn a new language?

2.- Having learned the language, how much experience is necessary to make a system for a client?

3.- If you know how to use a certain language, and that language is suitable to make an app, do you recommend to learn a new one, or to develop it with the language you already know?

Thanks!