On Tue, January 3, 2006 11:02 am, Danial Thom said: > IMO there is only one way to learn to program; > get yourself a project. You'll need a reference > book or web site, but until you try to tackle > something fairly difficult you'll never be any > good. During your project you'll encounter things > that you don't know how to do, and you'll > research and experiment and you'll learn how to > do it.
That is the best strategy I've found. Lesson books and so on, without a teacher and the threat of a bad grade, are very ... unmotivating. Set a goal, like "I want to be able to flash my keyboard lights when I have new mail", and try to reach it.
