{"id":28121,"date":"2017-10-19T09:59:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T07:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=28121"},"modified":"2017-10-19T09:59:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T07:59:11","slug":"what-is-the-hardest-part-about-learning-to-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/19\/what-is-the-hardest-part-about-learning-to-program\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the hardest part about learning to program?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Quora runs an interesting question – “What is the hardest part about learning to program?<\/a>“.\u00a0 As always, there are plenty of insightful answers with suggestions, tips, shared stories, research and statistical data, and more.<\/p>\n

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For me personally, this answer<\/a> in particular was useful, as I’m very well familiar with the phenomena, but never knew there was a name for it –\u00a0Dunning\u2013Kruger effect<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Quora runs an interesting question – “What is the hardest part about learning to program?“.\u00a0 As always, there are plenty of insightful answers with suggestions, tips, shared stories, research and statistical data, and more. For me personally, this answer in particular was useful, as I’m very well familiar with the phenomena, but never knew there … Continue reading What is the hardest part about learning to program?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"What is the hardest part about learning to program? #WebDev #Quora #psychology #career #education","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62],"tags":[3477,1114,1146,3541,1330],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-28121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","tag-career","tag-education","tag-psychology","tag-quora","tag-web-development"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27816,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/07\/29\/learning-machine-learning-and-nlp-from-187-quora-questions\/","url_meta":{"origin":28121,"position":0},"title":"Learning Machine Learning and NLP from 187 Quora Questions","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 29, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Machine Learning is a hot subject these days. \u00a0And as with any other hot subject, there is a multitude of books, online course, videos, and guides available all over the web. \u00a0I think that this curated list of \u00a0187 Quora questions is an interesting way of approaching the subject. 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