I learned to program with Ruby on Rails, which is a probably a terrible way to learn how to program, but I think there is a lot of value to having a working, useful application up and running in a few minutes and then tweaking it to see how it changes.
I'd never have made it through any of the bottom up approaches, because I'd have gotten frustrated with how much there was to learn before I could do anything useful.
I'd never have made it through any of the bottom up approaches, because I'd have gotten frustrated with how much there was to learn before I could do anything useful.