On: What is the most effective thing you did to improve your programming skills?

[qntm]

I did this too! After the second time I became bored with writing parsers by hand and now I'm trying to write a parser generator instead. It's extraordinarily good fun.

[aurynn → qntm]

OOh, that does sound like fun. I've been toying with how to write a grammar generator on Node.js, lately - something in the vein of PyParsing.