Best exercises for beginers to learn?

[Seebs]

On 2010-11-08, brf256 at gmail.com <brf256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering if there are any good exercises that you
> would recommend learning?

Yes.

*Write something you want to use.*

Nothing will teach you programming as fast as programming stuff you care
about for the joy of having it.  Exercises that you don't care about in
their own right will not catch you the same way.

If you write something you want to have, you will not stop when it
happens to work, but will keep tweaking it and improving it so it does
what you want.  That will teach you more than *any* prefab exercise that
has no particular significance to you.

-s
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