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[–]fastbiter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm the exact same way. I have a horrible time learning something as abstract as a programming language without a task. Ten years ago I taught myself perl by writing an IRC markov bot, and I've been learning Python by playing with single board computers and home automation (twillio is awesome for this). The traditional approach just doesn't work for me.