>Unfortunately it'd take someone more clever than me to figure out how to actually teach that skill to beginners reliably. The biggest issue is that there's a

>Unfortunately it'd take someone more clever than me to figure out how to actually teach that skill to beginners reliably. The biggest issue is that there's a canyon between the easy-to-solve issues (think CRUD applications) to very good solutions of the world's best applications/sites today (linux kernel, MS Office, Gmail). There's not a lot of "medium difficulty" projects in my experience. So if you come to the field looking to climb a ladder of skill like you did for K-College education, you run into a lot of difficulty mid way. Just learning your tools and using them well is a long trek. Never mind finding out new and interesting ways to use them.