TITLE: A Great Feeling
AUTHOR: Eugene Wallingford
DATE: September 18, 2007  6:06 PM
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A good friend sent me a note today that ended like this:

<BLOCKQUOTE><EM>
I feel like this has opened up a whole new world, a whole new
way of thinking about programming.  In fact, I haven't had such
a feeling ... since my early days of first learning Pascal and
the days of discovering data structures, for loops, recursion,
etc...
</EM></BLOCKQUOTE>

I know this sensation and hope every person -- student and
professional -- gets to feel it every so often.  Students,
seek it out by taking courses that promise more than just
more of the same.  Professionals, seek it out by learning a
new kind of language, a new kind of web framework, a new kind
of programming.  This feeling is worth the effort, and makes
your life better as a result.
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