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Dr. Junaid Akhtar is content architect at Educative and an expert in the science of education and specifically, learning to code.
In this episode we discuss:
- what most people get wrong about learning to code and learning in general
- the best way to stay motivated
- why 10,000 hours to master a subject is BS
- project-based learning and why developers do best with this strategy
Dr. Junaid is the kind of person more new coders should be listening to. His advice is based on years of experience as both an educator and a software engineer. He gets it.
Here's where you can connect with him:
I personally use Educative and you can check out their pathway towards software developer here -> Educative Learn-to-Code Content
Send us a text
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🤔 Got a question you want answered on the pod? Drop it here
Apply for 1 of 12 spots at Parsity - Learn to build complex software with AI integrations.
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Dr. Junaid Akhtar is content architect at Educative and an expert in the science of education and specifically, learning to code.
In this episode we discuss:
- what most people get wrong about learning to code and learning in general
- the best way to stay motivated
- why 10,000 hours to master a subject is BS
- project-based learning and why developers do best with this strategy
Dr. Junaid is the kind of person more new coders should be listening to. His advice is based on years of experience as both an educator and a software engineer. He gets it.
Here's where you can connect with him:
I personally use Educative and you can check out their pathway towards software developer here -> Educative Learn-to-Code Content
Send us a text
Shameless Plugs
🧑💻 Free 5 day email course to go from HTML to AI
🤔 Got a question you want answered on the pod? Drop it here
Apply for 1 of 12 spots at Parsity - Learn to build complex software with AI integrations.
AI Bootcamp - for software developers who want to be the expert on their team when it comes to AI

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