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 # Etudes for Programmers
 
 I got the idea for the "etudes" part of the name from this [1978 book by Charles Wetherell](https://books.google.com/books/about/Etudes_for_programmers.html?id=u89WAAAAMAAJ)
-that was very influential to me when I was learning to program.
+that was very influential to me when I was first learning to program.
 
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