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Udacity: Peter Norvig: Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
Peter Norvig, computer scientist and Director of Research at Google, teaches the Udacity programming courses Intro to Artificial Intelligence and Design of Computer Programs. He wrote a great piece, Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years, with advice for programming students on how to master programming. We love the excerpt below, where Peter shares his recipe for programming success: deliberative, sustained practice; learning by doing; and collaborating with other programmers on projects. Read the full post here. Start your journey to teach yourself programming in ten years with Udacity’s interactive, online programming courses. So You Want to be a Programmer Here's my recipe for programming success: Get interested in programming, and do some because it is fun. Make sure that it keeps being enough fun so that you will be willing to put in your ten years/10,000 hours. Program. The best kind of learning is learning by doing. To put it more technically, "the maxim…