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Udacity: Lifelong Learning - Or - How I Learned How to Code
Hi, I'm Cameron! I’m Cameron, a Udacity Course Developer and lifelong learner. I’m inspired every day by Udacity students who challenge themselves to learn programming, and I recently shared my own journey to becoming a coder - as well as some major revelations about how to learn - on my blog. Here’s how I learned to leverage projects and goals to become a programmer: I dabbled in code when I was in college working on my minor in astronomy. For my stellar astrophysics course, we had to simulate a star for the final project. Throughout the semester, we worked through assignments that required some kind of code to solve. I squeaked through class by pushing Excel and its ability to iterate formulas over rows to its limits. For the final project, I had a set of seven differential equations I needed to iterate over at least 100,000 times. I realized that learning a little bit of code might make solving the project way less frustrating. I’m not sure why, bu…