Ask HN: Student with little free time, where should I focus the time I have?
I&#x27;m a guy who doesn&#x27;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&#x27;m not sure what would be most beneficial.<p>I&#x27;m told to work on leetcode to prepare for interviews when I do have them.<p>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.<p>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&#x27;t know any swift yet either. (Obviously something I can learn, but starting from scratch seem would make the process a lot longer).<p>I&#x27;d like to learn some javascript, there are a few chrome extensions that I&#x27;d like to make that would be fun and useful.<p>All I know is C++ from my first 2 classes.<p>My attention is being pulled in a million different directions and really, I&#x27;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&#x27;t have tons of time each week to do that I don&#x27;t know where to begin. I know I have to start somewhere. Let&#x27;s say I have 7 or 8 hours a week at the very most. Any advice?