Well, I have two big things coming up which will take alot of time. Colorado Rail Game Network+ Both are huge goals and after reviewing all my ideas for the Rail Game and re-visiting the TestOut coursework for Network+ I feel like I am prepared to tackle them. For the game, there is so much that I can draw upon from recent events and historical events, that I feel like the story will come together pretty easily....
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....