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Udacity: Udacity contest winners visit Silicon Valley
From July 7-10, Udacity hosted the four winners of our Intro to Computer Science contest. Below, Conner Mendenhall, one of the winners, writes about his experience visiting Udacity's offices, recording studios, and other landmarks of the Silicon Valley, including Google and the California Academy of Sciences. Intro to Computer Science winners (from left to right): Jag Talon, Conner Mendenhall, Sascha Coenen, Liang Sun "Don't worry," Peter Chapman, Assistant Instructor at Udacity, reassures me as I come out of the recording booth. "Everyone thinks they were awful the first time they record. The editors will make you look good." I hope he's right. I've just spent 35 minutes in one of the closet-sized, soundproof rooms where Udacity instructors record their video lectures, and I emerged exhausted and exasperated. My assignment was simple: record a short demonstration of DaveDaveFind, the basic search engine I built using the skills I learned in Udacity's Intro to Computer Scien…