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Re:Ask HN: How to jump into "real world" programming? by jrockway on Sunday December 27, 2009 @06:27AM (#1016953)
Write a computer program. Any computer program. Then do that again.

(Note: you will probably fail if you write something that someone else wants, rather than something you want. So decide what you want, and write that.)

Ignore the advice to not write another blogging engine, or whatever. You need to learn to program before your programs can change the world. So learn first, change second.

Re:Ask HN: How to jump into "real world" programming? by dmn on Sunday December 27, 2009 @05:05PM (#1017706)
Good point, I just need to get more "practice" with programming... anything :P thanks!