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This is great, but rather than making a resolution to learn programming for the sake of programming, I'd recommend newcomers to programming to have (or come up with) a particular app they want to build right from the beginning and just learn what they need to in the process of building it.

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As it happens, setting out to learn an app right away is typically not a great way to learn how to code for beginners. It's too easy to get stuck on the implementation details of your application-development objective ("why won't my blogging system display italics?") at the expense of the fundamentals ("what is CSS good for?")

"learn programming for the sake of programming"

Remember the target market is full of people who don't code at all. Just getting their feet wet and realizing they can do it is the important part. The focus can come later and will probably happen organically.

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