The novel took a year to write altogether, from start to finish.

这篇小说从动笔到定稿，前后用了一年时间。

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Do you want to start a blog? Do you want to write a novel?

你想开始写博客么？你想写本小说么？

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So obviously I had to start with the food that inspired me to write this.

很明显，这是让我得到灵感——开始写这篇文章——的食物。

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Right, so the things we want you to take away from this are, get into the habit of using pseudo code when you sit down to start a problem, write out what are the steps.

好，这儿我想大家明白的就是,养成解决问题时先写伪代码的好习惯,把步骤都写出来,我想要告诉你们的是一个好的程序员。

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Today, I'm gonna start writing C code with you but I can't just write it and expect it to do anything.

现在，我和大家一起写C语言代码,但我不指望写出来后就能跑起来。

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But first, I want to start with the assignment I gave you last time, and I asked you all to think about these two questions and write some things down.

首先,让我们看看,上节课留的作业,我要求你们都思考,下面这两个问题并写下感想

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As the fund grows, the strategy that brought it success becomes harder to execute, and returns start to drop, the authors write.

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Before I start to write, I have to know one thing: So, I guess Beyonce was never actually part of this, eh?

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