With thousands of online courses available, it can be difficult to choose the one that's right for you. Here are 6 questions to ask yourself when you're choosing your next online course.

Do you want to learn to build websites, but you're not sure which programming language to pick?

One of the exercises that will make it easier is figuring out whether you're more interested in front-end or back-end programming. Most people naturally gravitate towards one or the other, and it can help you narrow down your choices as a beginning programmer. In fact, these are usually separate roles at a company.

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