Daily writing prompt

What is the last thing you learned?

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I read a great article from Kemz-Tech Diary in which she shared how she started learning to program using Sololearn (you can read it here). Besides being beautifully written, entertaining, and inspiring, it made me think about the time I wanted to learn how to program and how I stopped because someone told me that I was the type of person who never learns how to do it (I get very frustrated when I make a mistake).

So, I decided to give myself a chance and start learning how to program. After all, I have gotten better at dealing with my failures. Today, I learned about if, elif, and else in Sololearn, and it was relatively simple for me as I’ve learned something similar with the ifs function in Google Sheets. You can learn more about those commands here.

I don’t think I’ll be an expert programmer, a hacker, or anything close to that in the future, but I think that learning is great for our brains and very interesting. Is there something you stopped studying because someone else told you you were not a right fit? Would you consider re-taken your learning? Let me know in the comments.

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