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		JosephHatfield on Oct 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: LearnStreet - The Best Place to Learn How... I'd like to see a course that teaches new languages by first teaching me how to read existing code before asking me to write a single program.

lutusp on Oct 12, 2012 [–]

The argument is often made that understanding a language comes more quickly by writing and executing small examples than by reading examples.

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