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Comment author: ChrisHallquist 18 June 2013 11:22:25AM 2 points [-]

I've gone and done 20 problems on Project Euler, and learned a little, but it didn't seem like the fastest way to learn. Some of the problems took me awhile, but mostly they could be done with things I already knew. There was just one that I had to resort to Googling how to do, which led to learning a bit more about Python's max command. But maybe I should take most of Project Euler seeming relatively easy as encouragement?

Comment author: ZankerH 18 June 2013 03:17:17PM *  3 points [-]

But maybe I should take most of Project Euler seeming relatively easy as encouragement?

If you did 20 problems at random, certainly. If you started from the beginning, all I can say is keep going. A good way to judge difficulty is to sort the problems in descending order of the number of people who solved them.

Comment author: Bruno_Coelho 20 June 2013 03:00:04AM 1 point [-]

Learn math too, to understand data structures, graphs, algoritms and all the basic CS stuff.