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wccrawford on April 17, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How can I learn to program?

Either take a class, or do it like most self-taught programmers: Find a need and start looking up how to make it happen. It's going to be VERY painful at first if you teach yourself, but if you stick with it, you'll get there.

michaelochurch on April 17, 2011 [–]

It's going to be VERY painful at first if you teach yourself, but if you stick with it, you'll get there.

Painful? It's fun.

Sure, it's difficult, but if he doesn't find difficult things to be fun, he's neither going to be an entrepreneur nor a programmer.

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