Agree. Throw the book out. Do a project, and if you really care, at the end make it more perfect. But don't make it more perfect - do the next project. Make yo

Agree. Throw the book out. Do a project, and if you really care, at the end make it more perfect. But don't make it more perfect - do the next project. Make your focus to make some money, get more customers, etc. The beautiful code will follow from that. It doesn't matter how beautiful the code is if no one uses it. (Well, maybe if you need to pass an exam or open source the code or something like that, slightly different goals for the code to 'succeed'.)