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I can only agree. I started learning to code, because I wanted to acomplish one special thing (downloading and parsing xml from a weather-source to look at historical wether data for five places).

I started with python, learned a little bit sqlite on the way, learned about parsing files (good for understanding our devs at work better) and so on. Now I've gone on, got a little sandbox-server at work (I'm an editor) and atomated some really bad jobs at work with python. And did some funny things to make life better for our editorial team.

Yes, I am probably still writing spaghetti code, and there are a lot of things left I really like to learn, but with time comes understanding and I get better week by week.

When I look at code from 3 month ago, I get the urge to refactor it. But it works, it runs as it should and today I am more inclined to learn new things and get new things done first.

So yes. Keep coding and have fun!



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