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Re:What Toy Apps would you write in order to learn a language? by ludicast on Monday February 21, 2011 @08:21AM (#2245294)
I believe Basecamp, and by extension Ruby on Rails, was written by dhh to teach himself Ruby. Not exactly a toy app though.
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Re:What Toy Apps would you write in order to learn a language? by nailer on Monday February 21, 2011 @09:21AM (#2245467)
> Not exactly a toy app though.

It could have started as a generic to-do list. That's how I'd begin.

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