Ask HN: How persistent and smart do you have to be to learn to program?

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12 years ago

I'm a beginner trying to learn Ruby on Rails. Most tutorials show who to .reverse strings of text. I want to create user logins not reverse text!

I usually go through the course and never understand how I am going to use them when buildings apps. Learn how to print 1+1 is boring and demotivates me. When am I going to learn the good stuff?

Has anyone else had this problem?

original question on Quora: http://www.quora.com/How-persistent-do-you-have-to-be-to-learn-to-program

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