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So now I'm going to talk about some useful skills that can help you as a programmer. Feel free to skip this section if you find it too fluffy and all you want to do is code, but I've been through school, taught a bunch of courses to adults and kids, beginners, experienced people, and I wanted to share some of my thoughts on how you can be successful, both for being good at coding, but also to enjoy your time doing it and maybe like make a career out of it long-term. So the skills I wanted to discuss are structured problem-solving, resilience, love of learning, and empathy. So first, structured problem-solving. This is what you typically think of when someone says to think like a programmer. And Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, famously said, everyone in this country should learn to program a computer because it teaches you how to think. When he said that, I don't think that he had this in mind. My code doesn't work. Let's change nothing and run it again. Unfortunately, that's…

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