This Week at Udacity, January 12 edition
Welcome to the first This Week at Udacity of 2018! Already, SO much going on, and it’s all about YOU, and YOUR accomplishments this year. That’s what the whole “New Year, New Skills” campaign is all about. It’s your chance to explore 8 different Nanodegree programs for free—so go WAY outside of your wheelhouse if you want! Robotics? Got it. VR? Got it. Deep Learning? Got it!
You can read about it all right here:
So, that was the 1st of January.
After that, the news just kept on coming. Cutting-edge new curriculum in our Machine Learning Engineer Nandegree program? You bet! (Spoiler Alert: It includes a section on Sebastian Thrun’s cancer detection work, and a Quadcopter project!)
New partnership with Baidu, announced at CES? Yep, that happened too!
David Silver, the head of our Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree program, was so excited about the partnership news, he even penned his own post about it, right here on Medium!
And speaking of right here on Medium, have you been following our new Flying Car News series? If you had ANY doubts about whether Flying Cars were really coming, this series will open your eyes to some amazing things that are already happening. Check out the latest!
And speaking of amazing things already happening, how about THIS new series!
We’d be remiss if we didn’t mention one thing that happened this week that we were particularly excited about—the opportunity to quote Snoop Dog in an aspirational article about learning to code!
“Support tha American dream n make coding available to EVERYONE!!” — Snoop Dogg, Rapper, Actor
Which brings us to your favorite section and mine, the …
Tweet of the Week!
Technically, it’s been two weeks since we last published, since we took the first week off. So really, you’ll have to excuse us if we add a few tweets here! And why wouldn’t we, when the news about the #GrowWithGoogle scholarships just went out, and there are all these great tweets about it!
And THAT … is This Week at Udacity!
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This post was written by Christopher Watkins, Senior Writer, Chief Words Officer, Udacity
