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by pbreit 5197 days ago
You need to spend less time _reading_ and more time _writing_. And ideally that writing should be programming something useful, not just an exercise.

One of the best learning environments I've seen is the Python framework Web2py. It was developed by a professor originally for teaching purposes. Python is a nice clean language. You should be able to make some effective progress in an afternoon.