Besides your question... reading that sentence let me wonder how scamcoins could hurt your enthusiasm. Its not Bitcoin, you tried and failed, though these losses are things that most experienced. These things are something besides bitcoin for the most part, dont blame bitcoin for it...
And at least you tried and will know. My personality is I would have rather tried then not, or I always would wonder what if.
At this point I do stay in BTC mainly. Just a lot of pump/dump in alt coins. But I see BTC as having a very bright future. Don't let one or two bad coins ruin it for you.