st: how do peoplelearn Stata?

["josemaria" <jmpsouza@usp.br>]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Cox" <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>
To: <statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu>
Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 2:19 PM
Subject: st: RE: How to convert multiple numeric variables into a single 
string variable?



> A very experienced Stata user who has been
> with the program since Stata 1.0 once said
> to me (paraphrased):
>
> "I don't know how people learn Stata.
> When it was very small you could master the
> whole thing, and then you just learned extra
> bits as each new version came out. But
> I don't know how those coming to the program now
> manage at all!"
>
> So, how do people learn Stata? In some ways
> it remains a mysterious question.
>
> Nick
> n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
I am not an experienced Stata user, but I am just a Stata user. I would 
answer that to learn Stata it is necessary to use Stata. It is what I do, 
and I really enjoy it.
Jos� Maria 
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