On 11/6/06, Lee Higginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 11/6/06, Alex Esplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/6/06, Dan Stovall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I thought that some of these questions should probably be added to > > that list. I was wondering what sort of exercises do the pluggers do > > when learning a new language, or are just trying to keep their skills > > sharp? > > I duplicate Linux shell commands or other utilities when I'm learning > a language, as it is very easy to check the correctness of my results. > Things like grep, wc, sort, etc... are good excercises to learn the > basics of most languages I have learned on my own (C, Python). I also > intend in the future to exercise my coding muscles (small though they > may be) by creating extensions to or modifying some of the open source > app/utilities that I use. That's a great idea! Being a newb (other than classes and stuff) and very much out of practice I'm curious to hear any other suggestions from some of you more experienced guys for learning languages. I'm about to change positions where I'll be working a lot with python so I'm pretty stoked and eager to learn.
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