self-education

What are your learning tips?

You know, developers learn during all their life and I think that to be a better developer you should be able to learn faster than average people. So I'd like to know if you have learning tips to learn faster. For example to learn a book in one week (~1000 pages) to pass an exam certification, I worked with Visio aside and every new c...

Starter project to learn a new language ?

Possible Duplicates: Projects for learning a new language What are your favorite learning projects, and why? Standard programming problems for learning a new language Simple excercises for learning a new language. When learning a new programming language, I like to create a simple applications to do file IO, argument par...

did any of the more experienced and skilled programmers really struggle with the very basics of programming?

I ask on behalf of those that have a very hard time grasping the basics, and I mean the very basics. From simple loops to basic arrays and what have you. Is there really a light at the end of the tunnel. Language independent. Yes, practice and experience pays off without a doubt but from my experience those that blossom in something us...