Building general programming skills?

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Published on 2011-02-06T21:31:34Z Indexed on 2011/02/07 15:33 UTC
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Hello :)

I currently am quite new to programming, I've had exposure to a few languages (C#, PHP, JavaScript, VB, and some others) and I'm quite new to OOP.

I was just wondering what is the best way to build up general programming/problem solving skills without being language specific? I was thinking maybe of something like Project Euler but more geared towards newbies?

Thanks!

Edit: I am looking at getting into Game Scripting/Programming, I'm already in Games but in a different discipline :)

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