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15 Exercises for Learning a new Programming Language (freelancingjob.com)
13 points by nreece on Feb 7, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



These are awesome. They cover all the basics a person might need to know in a new language and they're not one's basic "find out if a number's prime" ones that I'm used.

Though I couldn't agree with the author's comment in the intro that program 0 should be "Hello, World!". Just for the sake of going through the motions of actually coding a thing (app or otherwise) in the new language.


Indeed, a single program that ran through all of these in sequence could be a proper (or better) substitute for a reference card.


An excellent point.




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