Hi, my technique to focus on learning a language is: 1.) Think of an interesting program that I would like to write. 2.) Write the program. As I write your pr

Hi, my technique to focus on learning a language is: 1.) Think of an interesting program that I would like to write. 2.) Write the program. As I write your program, I grep the documentation for stuff that I don't know. When I can't figure it out from docs, I grep the Internet. I've never ever really been able to focus on anything that I don't find to be immediately relevant to a task that I want to accomplish. Some say this is ADD, I say it is pragmatism. Either way, I learn programming languages really well in this manner. If you use this technique make sure that this program is something that will challenge you. Make it something in a domain that you maybe don't quite know, or at least have some interesting property other than the language. Language is but a vessel for thought anyway, languages influence thinking, but once you know one language, you sort of know them all; (however, the really interesting languages can fundamentally change the way that you think).