The Network+ course is back into my life. Back when I when I was answering support tickets, and getting tired of it, I started to believe there could be a different future for my career. I had spent years trying to learn to code on TeamTreeHouse. Weekends trying to learn to put projects together. I just was not having much success, thinking that becoming a programmer was a overnight thing....
I am glad I am taking so many online courses as I think it is giving me better skills that I can immididate use. Take for example Firm Learning, which is for consultants but I paid for the ‘Communications and Slide Writing Academy.’ This is where I learned how to write slides, or even blog posts about structuring a online for all kinds of documents. First, you outline the most important item you want to convey....
While taking my online course SQL for Data Science on Coursera, I really under estimated that the exams would be quite long with alot of queries. It was pretty painful to get my head thinking about how to write them and I was getting pretty impatient. However, writing these queries is getting me excited when I eventually learn how to write in Go and be able to connect my app with the database....
Looking back When I first learned about VIM, it blew my mind that you didnt need a mouse. It took me a while to get used to VIM motions but I can still look back to that day when I felt like a real programmer. Now fast forward some years and I am learning TMUX and that seems like a like another milestone in learning programming. To be able to pickup up wher I left off on one computer and start on another is suck a game changer, let alone when I forget to sign off and my pipe gets disconnected....
Since migrating this website, I am seeing what I used to have and what I have now. It reminded me that I also have an about page on Github. So when I looked at that I decided to move that over to the about page on this website. When reading it, I realized that I had a “Tech Goal” of “Creating a blog with either django or Go about my coding journey....