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That's pretty much true. However my first foray into programming was in Fortran, working with a physics professor in undergrad. He basically said: "Here's my program, start changing it.", which suited my learning style well. I used it to model phase transitions, and it resulted in my first publication. I picked up Arc because Lisp looked cool, if not somewhat familiar, and I wanted to learn enough that I could make most any basic app I could imagine. I grabbed the code for hacker news, and started changing it.