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Re:Ask HN: Review my "learning programming" checklist by gte910h on Friday April 29, 2011 @12:31PM (#2497932)
I'd do railsforzombies.org after tryruby.org (to perhaps interest the person in an application for ruby).
Re:Ask HN: Review my "learning programming" checklist by michaelleland on Friday April 29, 2011 @12:54PM (#2498031)
I added ROR at the end of the list, with an "assignment" of making a web app to organize contacts. Do you feel that by that time the programmer will have become bored?
Re:Ask HN: Review my "learning programming" checklist by gte910h on Friday April 29, 2011 @04:30PM (#2498870)
If you've learned programming and are bored, you're doing the wrong thing.

You should go "holy crap, I can make such neat stuff now" and go do that.