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Hey, well done on completing day 23.

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Now, today, I want to talk to you a little bit about the course, because when I designed this course,

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when I thought about what was going to be in it, how I would record it, how I would structure the

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curriculum, one thing that I was really clear on is this shouldn't be a programming course.

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It shouldn't teach you just syntax or, you know, something that you can read in a book.

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I wanted this to be a course on thinking, and that's why throughout the course there are so many places

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where I ask you to pause the video to complete the challenge, or complete the coding exercises, or to

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build the projects.

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It's because the hard part of programming is not writing out the code.

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Very often

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you're just typing out 10 lines of code,

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right?

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And once you see the solution, anybody can write it out.

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The hard part is the thinking.

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It's breaking down the problem to smaller pieces that you can tackle one by one.

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It's coming up with the flow chart of the program, how it's going to work, how the logic is going

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to be.

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And doing that and getting repetition in doing that is really how you're going to succeed as a programmer.

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So I want you to make sure that every opportunity that comes up for practice, you take it. And you take

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that opportunity to think through the problem, break it down, understand it, and write your own code.

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Keep in mind that the coding part, the writing part, is not important.

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The important part is the thinking.

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And you will be miles ahead of everybody else.