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Mayor of Awesometown
Mosta the classes aren't trying to teach you how to program commercial apps, they're just tryin' to teach you how to think.
Also, I think you overestimate how many people actually teach themselves to program. Lots of people entering programming classes have never actually programmed before.
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Banned
Here is something that all of us programmers can relate to:
Programming starts off as something you want to do, not because it is easy or because it is hard but because we say something like "whoa! I wonder if I could do this..." I started programming to make games, while others started programming to hack. Whatever you motivation is will make you learn to stop using the words "hard" and "programming" in the same sentence. With that said, enjoy learning to program.
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