Why did you stop practicing?

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I didn't learn programming by drilling on programs that I didn't want. I saw an Apple ][ for the first time when I was 8 or 9, got a TRS-80 Color Computer a year later, and since then I've been writing programs that I wanted, not programs that I writing to "practice", the whole time -- with some occasional exceptions such as a few CS classes and that time I did the whole Python course at Hackerrank.

Sometimes it's been driven by utility and sometimes it's been driven by fun, sometimes I have chosen projects meant to develop my weak spots but I've rarely "practiced" programming or any other skill.

Presumably the skater who attempts a trick a dozen times before finally nailing it is having fun.

Well, my son right now is learning to play the guitar which is a lot of practicing scales and chord transitions and playing Neil Young’s Sugar Mountain over and over again.

We expect to do a lot of practice to be able to perform a three-section-staff (him) vs spear (me) form.

If I am going to progress in fox mediumship I (we?) definitely will need to practice vocal adjustments.

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