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A friend insisted I start with C++ because it's 'real programming', but I found it just made me want to quit.

He said, 'If you can't handle pointers, you shouldn't code,' during a coffee chat in Denver, which pushed me toward Python and actually got me building things.
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val_williams
Honestly, I was the same way.
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julia549
julia54910h ago
My cousin in Austin had the same thing happen with Java.
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young.nora
Seriously, @julia549, how bad could it have been?
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