There are different ways people learn. For me, I couldn't just pick up and use an MVC Framework to build a webapp. I had to first (a long while ago), write a

There are different ways people learn. For me, I couldn't just pick up and use an MVC Framework to build a webapp. I had to first (a long while ago), write a web app using a bunch of shittily written javascript. After a while, I started to understand the problems an MVC framework like backbone would help me solve. My first HTML, written by hand. Now, I use templates. I got my ass handed to me by Manual Reference Counting, but once I got the gist of it, I could use it very well, and could pick up and start with ARC. Same thing with C++ and heap allocation. (Also mixing IEEE and VAX Floating Points... :D) Part of being a programmer, is getting scrapes and bumps, and learning. Maybe not. Most the people on HN are Godlike devs.