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9 projects from a self-taught programmer
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9 projects from a self-taught programmer

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Shivan
Jun 17, 2023
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I want to share a little bit of technology inspiration. My personal philosophy for learning code is to simply build passion projects.

It’s motivating. It’s practical. And because you want to build ‘X’, that involves researching ‘Y’ — and this makes it stick.

It’s difficult in the beginning because you don’t know what you can actually make. But if you can…

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