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Udacity: Improve as a Programmer After Your First Online Course
Roberto Roberto is a software engineer at HireArt, a jobs marketplace that uses online challenge-based interviews to match applicants and companies. A common question people ask after their first programming course is: "How do I keep getting better?" My answer is to pursue projects that allow you to make your unknown unknowns into known unknowns. What do I mean by this? First, let me tell you a little about my experience. Before I knew anything about programming everything about it was mysterious to me; everything was an unknown unknown. How does a word processor work? When I open a website, where does the information come from? I had no idea how to get a full answer. It all seemed like magic and the task of understanding how it all worked appeared overwhelming. During your first course you acquired a great deal of knowledge. For example, you learned that programs are written in clearly defined programming languages. You learned that, before a program runs, it gets translated…