I started programming in Java almost 2 years ago, so I'm still very new to everything. I hardly ever write anything in Java now though, I have to use C and C++

I started programming in Java almost 2 years ago, so I'm still very new to everything. I hardly ever write anything in Java now though, I have to use C and C++ in school, but for a quick project my first choice is usually Python, and lately I've been playing with Scheme. Something I liked doing when I was first starting is to check out the source to some open source tool I was using, or just to some random project I was interested in. I used to be amazed when I would look at some piece of real code and think, hey, there actually isn't some magic quality to it that makes it so much different than something I could write!