Agreed about learning a new language starting with PE. After that, I like to invent a big gnarly scenario that I don't have to completely solve, but one that t

Agreed about learning a new language starting with PE. After that, I like to invent a big gnarly scenario that I don't have to completely solve, but one that takes me well out of the range of typical cookie-cutter tutorials. I want to find all the sharp edges on a new language/library/framework.