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- From: falstaff@xs4all.nl (Falstaff)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: How to break in to Programming?
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 20:59:58 GMT
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- Tom Wheeley <tomw@tsys.demon.co.uk> writes:
-
- >In article <urquiola-1703962142150001@ronin.tiac.net>
- > urquiola@ronin.tiac.net "Michael Urquiola" writes:
-
- >> 1) What is the best way to learn not just so I can be employed, but just
- >> to be good? I've gone through several books, taken a few courses, but am
- >> still lost by much of what I see in this newsgroup.
-
- >Practice.
-
- >Seriously, this will give you far greater confidence and knowledge of the
- >boundaries and idioms of _any_ language (or anything!) than any book or course
- >can give you. Unfortuantely it can take up an inordinate amount of time :|
-
- I'd like to add that while practicing on simple stuff at first is
- fine, you'll need to set yourself some goal to write a larger, more
- complex program at one time; something that would need 1 to 5 KLOC,
- perhaps.
-
- I don't remember what I did, but I remember clearly when a friend of
- mine started programming in C his goal was to write a NCD-program for
- the Amiga (which is rather more difficult than writing one for the PC).
-
- Frank
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