How can I improve my logical and analytical thinking skills so as to become an awesome programmer ?

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Published on 2010-05-10T17:57:52Z Indexed on 2010/05/10 18:04 UTC
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solve puzzles ? Solve programming problems ? what else ?

Someone told me that I need begin with solving typical programs in C like those of factorial, recursion etc to improve logical thinking skills. What else do I do ? How do i go about it ?

I am a beginner to programming.

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