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		convolvatron on Sept 10, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Books that teach you programming languages... is there another option? I personally would probably never have taken up programming at all if I had to sit through a year of high level concepts before I tried to apply a compiler to some source code.

eurasiantiger on Sept 11, 2021 [–]

Of course you need something practical to start with, but do you start with a todo app or trying to build a compiler?

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