Speaker unverified: belief

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…How quickly would you go to Rails? It depends on what you want to do. If you want to build web applications, go to Rails right away, learn Ruby along with Rails. Because I think what really helps power through learning programming is to build programs that you want. Right? If you’re just learning it in the abstract, it’s difficult to motivate yourself to actually do it well. Some people learn languages just for the fun of them. Most people do not. Most people learn it because they have a mission; they want to build a program, they want to become a programmer. So you got to use it for something real. And I actually find that it’s easier to learn programming that way too because it drives your learning process. You can’t just learn the whole thing upfront. You can’t just sit down and read the language specification and then go like, “Ooh,” like Neo, “Now I know kung fu. Now I know Ruby.” It doesn’t download that way. You actually have to type it out in anger on a real program. Yeah. Yeah, for sure.…

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