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		itsgrimetime on Nov 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Do you recall any book or course that made... Zed Shaw’s “Learn Python the Hard Way” was what really got programming to click for me after trying and failing to wrap my head around C, Java, and Pascal many times in my teenage years. It taught me enough to start having a lot of fun with programming, and gave me enough of a foundation to end up actually learning those other languages in university.

thatmiddleway on Nov 15, 2022 [–]

I learned so much from the C and python versions. Real gems that presented the critical information succinctly.

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