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Practice makes perfect. The more you code, the better you become.

From my experience, reading books is one thing but if you didn't make your hands dirty, it's nothing. My advice would be, if you are really new to programming go learn the basics and get your hands dirty ASAP.

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Unless you code the same thing over and over again until you retire, that is.

If its sufficiently large to allow you to refine and improve on each iteration, then you will still improve and learn from it. For a while, anyway.

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