[iamwithnail]

If you're not seeing how you're going to use these things iqwn your own code, you should have a think about why that is; these techniques are the basis of everything else that you're going to do. I've been learning for 6 months now, and I can say I'm definitely still using "boring" stuff that I learned when I was doing the first cocademy tutorials. I learned a bit of python, realised I wanted to put a lot of it on a web page and then went to Django from there. I'm still making a lot of mistakes, so you do need to be persistent, but smart? Not for the basics, not really, just willing to learn. There comes a point where you need to be smart, but it's further down the line than I am. I can get away with the clunky hacks and boilerplate code I often end up using but I pay a price for that in terms of speed of delivery and performance. It'll get better over time.