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I have graduated from WGU and I am currently going back for my second degree. I actually really love the school. The way that it is set up is perfect for me. The certifications that they have you get along the way to your degree really give you a leg up in the industry I feel like. (I haven't gotten to that part yet but I can certainly see that it would be a benefit down the road) I am a graduate of the business school for Information Technology management. I am currently enrolled in the BS Network Ops and Security program. I've gotten my A+, Net+ and Sec+ through WGU, with Linux LPI essentials, Cloud Essentials and CCENT coming up.
The way the school does things and gives you a 6 month term is great for someone like me who works a 45-50 hour a week high stress job. It's flexible and they actually encourage you to work on just one class at a time. The great part is that you can finish as many classes as you want in that 6 month term. I've actually finished a class in as little as 3 days. As long as you feel like you can pass the class or do what ever project/paper they want you to write, it becomes quick and easy. There's no sitting through long semester long courses of information that you already know. Their supplied material is plentiful on the IT side of things. They give you access to a lot of websites that you would normally have to pay for. Lynda.com and pluralsight.com (amazing learning tool not just for the classes you're in/going to take) to name a couple.
If you have any specific questions please feel free to ask me or shoot me a message.
Ok, I do need to chime in here.
Take the advice you're getting here about "moving into DevOps" with a grain of salt. To be anywhere near useful as a DevOps engineer, you need mountains of experience. It might be worth doing a more "General" Networking Certification like Network+. If you're wanting to become a more rounded IT Professional, you need to have some _years_ of experience under your belt. That probably means working for an MSP (Managed Service Provider) and doing some general L1+L2 Technical support work, by doing this you're setting yourself up to know what you _like_ doing.
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To learn programming, at least so you can "automate" computers (Windows and Linux)
Learn to script with Windows Powershell. Learn some very basic Python as well.Powershell is easy on your windows desktop at home, Python I would recommend "Learn Python the hard way"
If you do seriously want to "do" devops: https://roadmap.sh/devops
Done properly, this should take you 2-3 years minimum, full time, while working in IT.
pluralsight.com will super help you.
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I would also see if you can get yourself a second hand set of servers and network hardware to learn at home. /r/homelab is a fantastic place to see this in action, its great.
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I very seriously do not want to dissuade you from working in IT, but its best you understand what you like doing first, before shoehorning yourself into something you might hate.
(17+ Years as an IT Pro, 8+ as a Senior DevOps Engineer).
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Listen, Practice exams are the only way to drill this overwhelming amount of material into your head.
1: Do Proffessermesser Videos first.
Buy the Comptia Cert guide and read, read, read.
Don't forget www.examcompus.con and www.Crucialexams have some really good free quizes/ Do these every day.
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Next Sign up for Pluralsight.com. Study the A+ Video courses Tim Warner -Great instructor
Lastly Purchase CompTia Certmaster and work your way through the Practice Test.
Leave this one until last so you're not just memorizing the Questions.
Lastly, FLASH cards are an absolute must. Try anki website and purchase some flashcards to drill all the protocols and port numbers into your head.
Keep this stuff going night and day. In your car driving, falling asleep.
Also CBNuggets, Anthony Sequiera has a great course. I took the 901-902. If you sign up to cbnuggetts.com just look for that one same material. His new A+ is not great. Not him teaching just watch 901/902
STAY the course dude. You nearly got there. Don't worry about how many attempts it takes. It's irrelevant once t you get your pass. STUDY one exam at a time.
No one is ever going to ask you at an interview how many ties you took the exam.
Again, READ, READ, READ watch the videos, and the start Practice exams.
It's absolutely worth learning. While there's something to be said for comfort in a given DAW, the more you know the more versatile you are to any employer. Also DAWs have different strengths and weaknesses.
Audition is a pretty easy one to learn, and I quite like it for editing a specific waveform. (It's not my favorite for multi-track, but it has that functionality too.) Now is a great time to learn too with pluralsight.com offering free April. They have course content for audition.
Check out Pluralsight.com.. I know they cost some $, but they have some fantastic tutorials.
http://illustratoring.com/illustrator-classes/
Laura Coyle runs this site and also has some classes on Pluralsight.
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as a side note on the programming, Take a look at Lynda.com, or Pluralsight.com i have used both regularily as a developer to bump my skills But they have plenty of courses for beginners as well.
You can definitely give it a go. I did a short 3 week coding course recently which went over the basics of html, css and javascript. I did it in between shifts and it was very doable and enjoyable. Having said that, i personally did it for fun and not to start a different career, but i will say if coding is something you are considering it is a good idea to start small. So something like a short 3 week course could benefit you and help you make up your mind. If you end up pursuing coding in any way shape or form, i recommend looking into pluralsight.com . It's a website that has a lot of video training courses for coding.
Definitely work as a nurse though first so that you at least utilise your bsn degree.
Focus on Part one first. This is all to do with CPU's.memory/hardrives etc. Get this part done and over with first and try to really learn it as opposed to getting a pass o the test.
That's the best way I think of myself. You'll end up knowing it all better and it will also help get you halfway through Net + when you are done with A+.
Good luck take your time but don't fall into the trap of overstudying as I did for both. help get you halfway through Net + when you are are done with A+.
Good luck take your time but don't fall into the trap of overstudying like I did for both.
Give yourself 4 months for both parts of A+.
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Here is my 2 cents.
The languages you want are C# and ASP.net MVC (a framework).
Many / All companies Dot Net are moving from WPF / Forms, discrete exe's to deliver their content to customers via the browsers. No hassle with upgrading, changing the program, etc. Its all moving in that direction.
And beside you have Visual Studio which is just awesome to use.
So that's the technology you need to learn which makes you into a backend Web programmer + JS, Angular etal.
Xamarin is also good, but its still buggy, but a good way to leverage your C# skills. You probably won't get hired on Xamarin however as many places would use Java and Swift.
Growing demand for Unity and C# as well. Holo is in Unity.
As u/pyronautical said, big companies look for degrees. Its the benchmark that you need to get looked at. Totally logical as it shows you can learn, study, are self motivated etc, the rest they can teach you. So you will probably need to focus on smaller companies.
You need to have a Linkedin acc, with your skills, and a Github repo with your projects.
Buy a https://pluralsight.com account. This is where programmers learn to program.
If you want to just be an IT guy with cables be aware the wages are really low, say 35 - 45K low, and you ahve to work shifts which isn't great with a family.
I know people getting jobs with this http://msa.ms/ . One guy is already being watched by a company on his github account as he is doing it this year.
Low level IT help desk jobs pay more. Get on Youtube and start searching for videos on A+ certification and Windows 10 certification. Plenty of free stuff out there. If you can pay for a sight like pluralsight.com which is a monthly sub but has tons of training videos on all kinds of IT topics.
You don't need the certs (but they help) but you can study for them to know the material. Helpdesk is 50% customer service so if you can never solve one technical issue you are still half way there. A big chunk of the other stuff is writing a ticket, resetting a password and "turning it off and on again."
"But I don't like/understand computers" or "I don't want to be a nerd" you might say. Tough shit. No one likes there job but I gauran-damn-tee you it is a hell of a lot better than a fast food job. I was working as a truckdriver/warehouse guy when I made my transition. My first job paid $13/hr and I got a call for another job one month into my training for another job that paid $18/hr and that was 8 years ago. Now I am cloud/devops and make over 100K/yr without a college degree.
You want to learn Windows 10 and Active Directory, especially how to reset a password. Learn how to troubleshoot Outlook/0365. Stress your customer service skills and problem solving skills. You work fast food and have to get 100 small jobs done a day while understaffed - you can solve problems.
Anyway, no one will solve your problems but yourself. The government is not going to hand you money and make it all better. You get a good job and earn good money or you do that shit the rest of your life being taken advantage of. IT is one idea but there are others. Get out of that dead end job and look for something else. Those people getting unemployment will only be temporary. It's not going to last and you need to think about your future.
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Whatever you do best of luck.
Just an idea, until you land that Helpdesk job maybe you could land a job in a electronics or computer store fixing PCs etc? Better exp anyway than Office store. :) Plus remember that Helpdesk is also very much softskills, ie, customer service whether the customer is a fellow employee in another dept or a civilian :). Pluralsight.com has a good course on helpdesk, you could just get a months sub for it. Also be sure you can type and knowledge of WORD or such would be good. If by chance you have a Mac or are interested Apple hires helpdesk to work at home. You have to be able to type 40 wpm and have a dedicated cable line. Might be worth considering, best of luck.
Unfortunately tryruby.org now redirects to pluralsight.com, to something completely different.
I'm not sure if they plan to bring it back or it's dead. :(
Take some time to browse websites that are hiring for enterprise developers, and look into what technologies they are using/looking to hire for. This will help you figure out which technologies mesh well, and at the same time give you an idea of what a career path as a developer may look like for you. I primarily use C# and MV*, but you may find that something else suits your needs better. There are many great suggestions on this thread already, so I will not repeat them.
When considering resources for gaining said knowledge, it really helps to know how you learn best. Some people really like to read books, others like to read blog posts and questions on StackOverflow, and others may benefit more from video tutorials and their examples, following along as the video tutorial progresses. I use a combination of all 3, the latter being the most effective in my case. I have become a fan of Pluralsight and would recommend it highly. It is not free but maybe you can get your work to pay for the subscription.
In case anyone else looks for them, here are the PluralSight videos:
Have them purchase a 1 year subscription to Pluralsight.com
You can study at your own pace.
There are a good number of courses for both SQL and IIS as well as a ton of other subjects.
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well first of all you can do this. With that said you should most definitely set realistic goals for yourself. Starting from zero is not uncommon. Everyone starts from zero at some point. I would suggest watch Prof Messer's videos then Dion's videos. Get yourself a good A+ book and really after you've read a book or two even A+ for Dummies I find is a good starting place. The A+ Dummy's book really keeps it basic and introduces you to teh topics slowly. Then move on to a better A+ book. Sign up for www.pluralsight.com start with their A+ course. after your familiar with the topics, concepts and materials start taking practice exams Dion's, CyberVista.com etc.
Most of all my friend, set your own pace. Don't concern yourself with how fast someone else can do A+ you just conecntrate on ypour own learning pace.
Lastly, focus on Part 1 of the A+ then tackle Part 2. You got this.
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Lastly, focus on Part 1 of the A+ first. Then tackle part 2.
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Most of all
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I would look into MOOC first, i.e.
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pluralsight.com , linuxacademy.com + of course books and self paced labs.
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After that - either took part in some project, or, alternatively, find mentor (dunno - on work, on opensource project, or perhaps on codementor.com - but paying mentor per hour might not be cheap at all)
Although I have no attended a coding bootcamp, I would not. Self-education is the way to go in my opinion, I would look at a site like https://pluralsight.com - I would credit them for jobs I've had because they cover new technology and best practices.
TryHackMe.com is good for more hands on, both offensive and defensive. Pluralsight.com is amazing for just about any content you could want. Beyond that, I think an old PC with some VM's and youtube. I personally use all 3 of these, almost daily. Tools like Splunk and Security Onion have free versions, along with vulnhub.com to download vulnerable VM's to practice on, should help you get pretty well rounded.
I did the free courses on codecademy.com, then I was somewhat lucky to have access to lynda.com and then later access to pluralsight.com . There is a lot on Youtube so I guess you could find videos there instead of Lynda and Pluralsight that cost money, if you are not lucky enough that your school or work has a subscription that you can use for free.
I can warmly recommend Pluralsight. You can use their free trial and if you seem to like it, I can give you a referral code so you pay less on your first month/year.
Been there for several years now and the courses are really great.
Besides that.. learning by doing! Create a playground and start writing. :)
Probably the best overall starter book is Code Complete, by McConnell. There are also free software tools. Visual Studio (Community Edition) is free, and excellent. Visual Studio Code is also free, and also terrific. For source code control, learn git (yes, this is spelled correctly). Docs.microsoft.com is excellent documentation about a lot of topics, and has a lot of tutorials. For non-free learning, it is hard to beat pluralsight.com.
Learn a computer language. Which one you start with isn't that important. Reasonable starter languages are Java, C#, and Python. Javascript (no relation to Java), is an oddball; it is poorly designed, but is the most popular programming language in the world, since it is built into every web browser. It is best-known for doing web code. C and C++ are important, but are not good for beginners.
Don't stop with one computer language. Make a point to occasionally learn another language. Don't stop there: whatever you do, keep learning new things. Besides languages, there are new ideas. Keep learning them. There is a constant stream of new technologies coming out.
The best thing is to get in there, perhaps install Visual Studio (either one), work through a few tutorials, and start trying things out. Any pc with adequate memory should be useful.
The Jorengarenar list includes several classics.
FYI, Pluralsight is currently free for the whole month of April. I'd give that a try.
Go to pluralsight.com, they're free for the whole month of april. Check out this course and this course. I think it's a good primer for administering sharepoint online.
I've been using Sharepoint for a year and a half and those courses helped me solidify my knowledge and teach me things I don't know since I'm self taught.
If you can afford it, check pluralsight.com . There're many courses professionally made. Last weekend was the "free weekend", so you could sign in or sign up and have access to all their courses. Besides that, Java Brains youtube channel is also great.
I used Vlad Catrinescu's video on Pluralsight.com.
The cert is very broad. I use MS365 daily however I had never utilised a decent amount of the content covered by the course. Though that may be more due to my role...
FYI. I've found 2 chrome extensions (Evernote & PluralSight) that will change the results of a google.com search. PluralSight adds a link to search pluralsight.com with the same query. Evernote literally embeds your bookmarks on the right of your google.com search results.
No worries. It's pretty easy to jump from one to the other once you've learned one so don't sweat it too much.
I think visualstudio.com still offers a 3 month trial to pluralsight.com if you make an account. It might be worth checking out.
Some of the content on Pluralsight.com is certainly helpful, although majority of this content will be in more specific areas that will fall under the DevOps/Systems Engineer umbrella.
My advice to you would be to review some of the roadmaps found here : https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap
The BackEnd and DevOps Roadmaps here can be super helpful in identifying some of the things you should learn about, and from there you can search for more specifics online.
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se vuoi capire come funzionano le dinamiche web, non puoi limitarti allo studio di una libreria(come react/~~vue~~/jquery, li metto sullo stesso piano) o di un framework(come angularjs/vue/angular/aurelia li metto sullo stesso piano) client-side tralasciando le implicazioni server-side(di nuovo riduttivo in una realtà che spinge sul serverless). Ad un certo punto avrai necessità di avvicinarti al backend, vuoi python, java, c#, nodejs, php, ecc, e al cloud, aws, azure, ecc, un investimento che potresti valutare è un abbonamento a pluralsight, non sono denari buttati, happy coding!
OP, one thought for moving forward. Since you can use a keyboard pretty well, why not consider learning to write code? Linda.com and Pluralsight.com can teach you to learn all the things. Most/many/all software companies are working remote right now so you have options for work where you want. Now you're moving in a direction that helps you move past how you feel today.
Before you read anything else, read Code Complete, by Steve McConnell. I assume you have your own computer? Get the (free) Community Edition of Visual Studio, and start trying things. An excellent resource with thousands of techncal lectures is Pluralsight.com (not free, unfortunately). Microsoft has terrific documentation and tutorials. There are lots of free lectures on YouTube.
There is no perfect programming language. They are all compromises among different goals. Good starting languages are Python, Java, and C#.
Learning your way around Linux (any version) would be useful. At some point, learn about algorithms. I suggest Introduction to Algorithms, by Corman and Leiserson.
There is an enormous amount to learn, and you are never going to find courses to teach you most of it. Whatever you do, make a point to keep learning new things.
You could get her a subscription to lynda.com or pluralsight.com. They are websites with high quality learning materials. There's a bunch of stuff on web development. It's like $30 bucks a month or something like that.
for educational website, check your local library. they may have accounts for lynda.com or pluralsight.com.
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Go to pluralsight.com get yourself an account. Learn SQL Querying and HTTP Fundamentals. Create a profile and do the courses. Start applying for software/application support positions. Good luck
So my side business is actually helping people with their startups. I was kinda forced into the role and to be honest, I love it. I have even created a youtube channel to help people starting up. http://www.youtube.com/c/BuildMyUnicorn/
But in order to do the channel I needed to upskill, fortunately, I learned by trial by fire and survived, but when I was upskilling I watched a lot on LinkedIn LEarning (which is surprisingly good), I also had access to Pluralsight.com which also helped.
Reading: the lead startup and Start With Why - How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
I never got into Audiobooks or Podcasts
Assuming youre from north america, check out animation colleges websites and look at their requirements. I had show 10 piece of my of original artwork such character design, perspective drawing, to show my capability of drawing skill. And also bunch of life drawing sketches in big newprints. You will be doing lots of life drawing lessons in college. So find a good life drawing studio near your area it usually costs 5-10 bucks per session.
Worry not you dont have to be good at drawing to make as an animator but it certainly helps as an artist and increases your value in the jobmarket. There are industry standard 3D softwares that you must learn if you want to get hired by big studios. Go to pluralsight.com or flippednormals website and start learning fundemantels of maya right away. There are many other courses for animation fundemantels that you can start learning. These courses cost money but it will be your career and will shape your future so invest in it.
As for basic skills first thing animation school will recommend is to buy animator survival kit by richard williams. You can get on amazon. Learn what frames mean, what timing and spacing means.
Also go to youtube and search how to animate bouncing ball in maya and just follow it.
You can get maya for free as an educational license. Go to autodesk website and tinker around. Google how to get the software thats on you.
Very first thing you will learn in any animation school is to learning to how to animate a bouncing ball. So master that. Hope it gives you basic information on how to get started. Goodluck on your journey friend
OP, join Pluralsight.com or Linda.com and start taking classes there. Pick a beefy language like Python or C# and learn good coding principles - you'll be able to transfer them to the next language you learn. You got this.
Go to pluralsight.com and follow the paths of the technologies I describe below.
learn html5, css3 and javascript (ES5+) => to be able to create modern websites
learn Angular or Reactjs => to be able to create modern and maintainable websites
learn .net core or nodejs => to be able to understand a web server
learn PostgreSQL => to be able to understand databases
learn some AWS => to be able to understand how things are hosted in the internet
Hello. May it be that my expierence should be relevant to your case, and maybe not.
I'm self-taught admin, never took any courses except for docker videos on pluralsight.com
So, I got into dev support and so on while working with my previous company, it was all about software development and it support, so basicly i learned how to work with aws, docker and vmware virtualization. Then one of thr biggest telecom provider offered me a job, and then I really started to work with jenkins and development team issues with it.
So, I had no previous experience before joining job, only the slightest "well I have been using it for a week just to have and overall look of it", but they did offer me a position. Because somehow they figured out that I'm all ready to learn and to use new tools.
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So, my advice is to create some pipelines in jenkins, do some scripting with python and you're all set for the story :)
You're welcome, I recommend pluralsight.com for tech related video tutorials. Some of my more advanced programming classes follow courses from that platform almost entirely.
Also I should mention that I'm doing Applied Computer Science with specialization web & mobile in a university-college in Belgium. I did an Erasmus+ semester in Ireland and the level and pace was waaaayyyyy lower. Really I'm very lucky with my college here in Belgium, they're fantastic imo.
I think it's important to window shop for a course that teaches what you want at a pace you can handle rather than just go for any random institution for a degree.
Yeah Steganography was interesting, very 007 :)
In my case I made a little program that takes an image and hides a serialized object in it. It was a proof of concept type thing and if I really wanted to use it for secret communication (i.e. send someone a picture of a cute puppy with hidden data inside) I would obscure it more but I'll explain how mine worked.
every pixel has 3 colors represented by 8 bits, the right-most bit being the least significant meaning that if you change it you wont notice a difference in the image with the naked eye. I made all those least significant bits zero and then hid the data in those bits. There was one tricky thing, I made the first 32 bits represent an integer which would define the size of the byte array that the rest of the data would go into. That way I could instantiate the byte array first thanks to knowing its size, and then start filling it as the image gets processed.
I had made a mistake which lost me some marks: I saved the image as "something.png" but actually it was a bitmap. This meant that the .png image file was larger than you would expect and that might mean that someone could discover my secret message because of that hint.
As someone who switched careers over a decade ago be I want to let you know you don't need a degree or even certs to start. Sure they help and you should get a degree if you can but I would probably skip a school that required me to have a cert to be accepted.
You can hop right on youtube and learn a lot. Or go to a place like pluralsight.com and get a subscription. Learn some basic hardware, learn an OS(windos or linux), learn basic active directory and some basic networking. Setup a decent home lab. Then you can jump into a help desk job without tens of thousands of dollars in debt.
My first helpdesk job they saw I had an associates degree and didn't ask me one interview question. They just saw that on my resume and told me to show up at orientation the next week. I made like 13/hr (which was pay cut) but 3 months later I got another job for $18/hr. Six months later I was making $21/hr. I still barely knew shit.
That being said my brother who does road construction makes more than me and I make much more than that now. So maybe stay in construction. Start your own business in it.
Two points
1, for web development you don't actually need a whole lot (if any) maths, you can get by fine without it.
2, you have a stable (relatively) well paying job, don't throw that away until you have something concrete
Try pluralsight.com/ for the web development, it's not the best but it's free until the end of this month because of the lockdown. Then when you're comfortable start freelancing and once you're 100% with that, you can make the jump.
In my opinion, most intelligent people can move into tech. The main thing is the ability to think clearly. I always thought "The Elements of Style" by Strunk and White to be useful for software people. You can get into software with no college courses. Most of what software developers know is stuff they learn on their own anyway.
If you want to try moving into software, this is my advice: first, get "Code Complete" by McConnell, and read it cover to cover. Then get a (free) "Community" version of Microsoft Visual Studio, and start trying things. Finally, a subscription to Pluralsight.com web site is very useful. But whatever you do, keep on learnng. This business is constantly changing. There is lots of great documentation on the net, and Microsoft documentation is especially good. Reasonable starting languages are Java, C#, and Python. JavaScript is an ugly, poorly-designed language, but every pc has it, since it is built into web browsers. That would also be a useful tool. Beginners should stay away from C and C++.
My son got tired of physics graduate school, and wanted to try software. I gave him the same advice. He landed a job as an unskilled developer at $47k a year, and was rapidly moved up to $57k/year. That wasn't three years ago, and now he gets $93k/year.
pluralsight.com has April completely free and after that their whole package is $29/month. I'm doing their "basic" Practitioner AWS course rn and it's great - however steep it is.
What I've seen is that there are not that many "DevOps" titled positions awailable for juniors (but I might be wrong), so going into CloudOps or SysOps would be easier. Kind of the same things just focusing on different parts rather than being the bridge itself. Again, that's what I'm doing now haha as I definitely don't have the knowledge and experience to jump straight into a DevOps position (even junior), but I'm happy with working with cloud or just making systems in general.
I'd strongly recommed the pygame tutorial on pluralsight.com, and the access is free until the end of April. It's rally good at explaining the why behind most of the basic features, instead of chucking code block at you.
Pluralsight.com will help you on sql/oralce topics, sign up, is free for the rest of April due to the COVID19 situation. Pluralsight content is mainly created for devs but there are some introductory courses that could help you. From my perspective, BAs would/should not always know the specifics of the technology being used, however, a good grasp of the basics will help. If that does not work, check the Head First book series, that is my go-to place whenever I want to understand some IT topic from zero. I hope this helps.
I am using pluralsight.com too ,
honestly i did not used pluralsight before but as i experienced all courses are fundamental,
i goes through windows server , Networking , Agile even did some search for API ,
i never pay monthly for these courses they are so basic .
- lavoro in smart working quando non sono in CIG;
- quando sono in CIG:
- posso lavorare comunque e sulle (vere) urgenze rispondo ugualmente;
- ho scoperto oggi che Pluralsight è gratis per tutto aprile, mi sono iscritto e sto facendo un percorso sul networking - cosa in cui non sono un granché ferrato;
- continuo a studiare C#;
- suono la chitarra e faccio esercizi (da quando sono in quarantena paradossalmente non riesco a toccarla);
- gioco un fottio a Battlefield 4, unico gioco a cui mi sono appassionato da quando è uscito (ho ~5.000 ore all'attivo);
- ma proprio tanto ci gioco (Locker Only), ho fatto una settimana così: sveglia alle 09:30/10:00 caffé e sigaretta come colazione, reddit e notizie fino alle 11:00 dopodiché gioco fino ad ora di cena, mangio e riprendo a giocare fino alle 24:00/01:00 sleep and repeat. Sono tipo 8 ore di fila + altre 3 circa...
- posso lavorare comunque e sulle (vere) urgenze rispondo ugualmente;
Di altro bhe...ieri mi sono tagliato i capelli :D ahahah mai fatto in vita mia di tagliarmeli da solo, potevo uscirne peggio.
This looks a lot different. I found one of the courses but it's missing the other ones that would help.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIoX3-mcY80giUxyJqOCgYDJMt3LVRDNm
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If your company can pay for pluralsight.com you could leverage that too
When I read this my first question, on seeing 4 attempts for ICND-1, did you reference the Cisco Blue Print (CBP) to focus on the learning objectives the test covers? Meaning, before taking the test, sit down and go methodically through the CBP to ensure you can meet the objectives? I can see test anxiety, lack of experience, etc, making the test difficult, but just curious. I found just watching videos, reading books, and test sims still often neglects some basics which can be the breaking point for the test. In my case I get obscenely low score on maintenance and I'm thinking, "How in the world did that happen?" I went back to the test objectives in the CBP.
I'm starting on the new CCNP Enterprise Core, and hence, my starting point is a Cisco Press book, and the CBPs. Then I will hit PluralSight.com, Boson test sims, etc.
First step,don't make any major changes
check out https://pluralsight.com/ for $299 a year (they run $199 sales all the time) you have access to a 100s of security related courses.
This will give you a good idea on a range of topics, certifications, roles, etc.
Once you go through some of the training, you have a better idea of what area of Infosec you might want to pursue.
It's not all technical, there is everything from training, risk, project management, analysts, etc
Always happy to see helpful comment that starts with criticism ).
Yes I've read that exact and few more other articles and couldn't understand it (maybe I couldn't concentrate at work), planning visiting pluralsight.com so I can listen some video tutorials.
If you test well, maybe. Meaning, if you are able to quickly read a question, eliminate the distractor, and quickly move through remaining answers on a standardized test...maybe. If you have the financial means, go with Boson test simulator and see if you can get up to round 700s on their tests.
If this is a serious thing>
1) Download Cisco blue print for CCNA test objectives.
2) Download Cisco packet tracer and install. Every single thing you read, practice immediately. Don't wait for review. Then, restart labs at ends of chapters, in the next step
3) Buy Todd Lammle's Complete Study Guide for CCNA. Do a couple chapters a day. The book is 24 chapters if I recall correctly, or about 990 pages. (I loaned it to a co-worker when I passed my CCNA last week, so I can't remember exactly)
4) On subjects you feel weak, watch Odom videos and CBT Nuggets. If you can't understand someone speaking in a video, when doing YouTube searches, quickly move to the next video (many YouTubers have very hard accents that make it very difficult to follow). However, stay focused on the book.
5). If your finances allow, I also suggest CBTs from a trusted site. I used PluralSight.com and watched all of Ross Bagurdes videos on CCENT and CCNA.
6). Given time is short, I would suggest just doing the composite test (not ICND1 and then ICND2). Schedule for Feb 16, so if you fail, you have one more shot.... or if money is short, just schedule for Feb 23 (assuming test centers are available)
I would strongly recommend looking for the same coursework on Pluralsight. You get an account just by linking it to your WGU account. I found with the uCertify courses they focus on trick questions and the dreaded "choose all that apply" far more than "do you actually know the content." I'm on the Project+ course right now, and I got more out of the 9 hours of videos they have than almost any of the book. I know the content well, but I'm still failing the practice tests because of the uCertify question method... Really not happy with it being uCertify exams right now. But check out Pluralsight, sometimes hearing the content while reading the screen puts it more into your head, or at least it does for me. :)
When you create an account at pluralsight.com you go to your profile and there is `Skills IQ` section where you select a stack, framework, technology and you answer a series of questions in a quizz at the end of that you get a measure that says if you are a: "novice, proficet or expert" in that.
Obligatory self promotion:
My book: https://www.apress.com/la/book/9781484239995
My PluralSight courses. (Just go to pluralsight.com and search for 'Kit Eason' in the 'What do you want to learn?' box).
None of these assumes C# experience, and you should be able to pick up any .NET concepts that I mention on the fly.
Welcome aboard and good luck!
Online learning resource like pluralsight.com could be useful.
There are plenty of sharepoint admin/developer in-person meetups in most cities which would be a great starting point.
Other than that, googling things you are trying to acheive you stumble accross blogs, IT consultant articles, etc, that help solve the issue and then their other articles could be of use.
https://collab365.community/ is a good resource
I am still learning as I go also, so best of luck. I am sure I will see your posts on this subreddit.
My interest in design started at around 13 years old and I would pick apart websites I liked then try to replicate them for myself. I did this for maybe 7 or 8 years, mostly for fun, until I decided to try to go to school and by then I had taught myself most basic/intermediate things I needed to get a job.
I had a portfolio before school, kept it up to date during, and used it to apply for jobs when I left. None of what was in there came from my school assignments. I was pretty proficient in HTML/CSS, Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, and InDesign but again, not from anything I had learned in school. Nowadays I don't use any of those programs but still frequently lean on my knowledge of front end dev languages including HTML/CSS.
I'm not an expert on them but I'd bet a lot of online programs have a good amount of structure. Goal setting, deadlines, etc. I worked for Pluralsight for a few years and I'd suggest checking them out but I know they're a bit more developer focused and might not have a ton of design content.
I would take a look at pluralsight.com. They have learning paths (just search C# and you'll find it) where they will test your current knowledge and suggest some courses to take. Then after taking enough new courses you can retest your knowledge to see how much you've learned over time. I feel that might help keep the motivation going to learn a new language.
So if you're serious, here are some pointers. I am a hiring manager at a firm that employs .NET developers so you can take it on faith that these are good steps to try. They won't make you a programmer but they'll get you thinking like one. Half of knowing how to write effective code is being able to think analytically.
- Download Visual Studio Community edition and get it installed.
- Get yourself a PluralSight.com subscription and start working through some of those videos. Start with their video called "Building .NET Console Applications in C#". It's a good intro into the sort of Hello World stuff you will want to start with.
- After you get your feet wet with that, you'll have a basic grasp of flow and execution. Then start looking at web stuff. Start looking at the basic HTML courses on Pluralsight and get an understanding of what HTML and browsers do together.
- When you're ready, dive into the ASP.NET videos on that site. That will take the C# stuff you started with and marry it up with the HTML stuff. Try to build some interesting little apps that solve problems you dream up.
Do these things and you'll have a start in the right direction.
It's depend.
If you had background in any programing language before, then just learn Python syntax. Take a look at W3school, tutorial online, pluralsight.com tutorial...
If you have nothing in your mind about programing, and how to setup your project end to end. Then you should try with a Hello World and go from there. Understand how to print something to screen, apply match and calculation, then functions, and so on. My point is, if you don't know anything, just start simplest thing. Just don't give up.
If you're willing to spend a few bucks, I'd recommend going to Pluralsight.com. It'll cost you $30 per month. Among the garbage on Youtube, there is actually some decent content for it. Go there and search for Kudvenkat to start. There is a whole series there on ASP.NET Core.
This may not apply directly to your situation, but I have found Pluralsight to be very good for our SP On-Premises (2013-2019) training needs. It can be pretty cost effective when compared against a classroom-led or in-person courses. I do see that their site has several SharePoint Online Tracks as well.
I'd recommend Pluralsight. It offers a wide selection of react, but also many other courses from many experienced developers. You can try it for 11 days (or 30 days with VS Dev Essentials) -> https://pluralsight.com
If not in school, then get a good starter book. The reason you can't just jump into Youtube and pick a video is because there is no "structure" in it. If you are new to programming, then you need some kind of structured learning. You can't just jump at the end when you need to learn the basics.
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Get a good book.
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Also have a look at Pluralsight.com - they should have a trial.
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Also, what are you going into? Web Development? PHP? Python? Or are you going to go Javascript, etc.
"Coding" / programming is quite broad.
I used the Pluralsight.com Project+ course. I believe it was Casey Ayers.
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You should be able to login using your WGU credentials on the website, just choose the "Login using an Organization portal" option.
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It was all I needed to pass the exam without previous experience. I usually listened to it during my 45 minute drive to and from work. Once in awhile I would go back to look at the cost formulas and work through some examples.
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If you plan to supplement your listening with other materials like books or Youtube videos, you should be golden.
So much has been written about SQL, you likely don't need to pony up the big bucks for a course (by that I mean those 4-5 day courses at something like $500 per day). Lots of tutorials online, even video ones but a humongous amount of written ones. Lots of help forums as well.
For stuff I'm not familiar with, I've been watching tutorials on Pluralsight.com. It's not free but they have a 10-day free trial (don't know if they ask for payment information to activate it, though). They're usually high-quality tutorials that range from beginner to advanced. You may be able to get what you need out of that 10-day trial.
Pluralsight.com has a decent series as well, but it's a paid site. Honestly, if you know another language, it's not really that different. There are plenty of little 'gotchas', but generally speaking, it's not a huge leap.
Thanks. Also, the courses on OSCP are pretty expensive. There is a similar course on pluralsight.com which is considerably cheaper. Is any other provider other than OSCP worth pursuing?
Practice, practice and practice. There is no magic pill for you to be good at programming. Before moving on a big project you should be good at basics. I recommend you to take the course on Udemy website (taking the best seller course) or pluralsight.com,
If you like learning from Video's pluralsight.com is a great site to use. So much so that I've seen companies offer this to all of their development employees. I've used it occasionally to get up to speed on new tech. I would bet there are some free video's on youtube as well perhaps alternatively as a free option.
It also depends on how you like to learn. Some people like to just learn by trying out things in the language. Some like to learn by reading, then trying, etc. For me I like to watch video's on a topic or read or both, then try things out in the new stack or language.
I like penbook. It's not exactly the same functionality as OneNote, but it's cool for writing for me.
Edit: After scrolling, I have to agree with everyone. Get familiar with the Store/Online version of OneNote. My suggestion, sign up for the free trial at pluralsight.com and take the OneNote courses.
1 - In my experience it's possible.
2 - I started to use Bolt 4 days ago, went through the official tutorial first which covers how to make a basic platformer game. It does a good job of going over most Bolt features. After finishing that I had a decent understanding of how Bolt works on a surface level but I still lacked the knowledge on how to make something that's not a platformer from 0.
Then I jumped right into a C# fundamentals course on pluralsight.com. I was happy to discover that I can translate C# directly to Bolt nodes. So far I've managed to recreate all C# scripts from the course with Bolt nodes and I'm on my last lesson for the fundamentals course.
There's another course on Pluralsight that goes into deeper topics so I'll continue with that. After that I'll go to Youtube and pick one of the many C# series on how to create an RPG and go from there.
Bolt has allowed for me to actually understand how code flows visually so not only I'm learning Bolt, I'm also learning C#.
EDIT: Support has been pretty good so far, especially on Bolt's Discord server. I got all my questions answered. And I chose Bolt over Playmaker because Bolt has both Flow Graphs and Finite State Machines while Playmaker only has Finite State Machines. Unity also have been pushing Bolt as the go to visual scripting asset for some time now. I expect it to grow to be the next Playmaker.
It is still called Dreamspark. What you are referring to is https://onthehub.com/. You can look up your school and see if they offer anything. Both my community college and university offered this, so many free Microsoft licenses! :D On there you can usually have Win7, Win8.1, Win 10, Server 2008, Server 2008R2, Server 2012, Server 2012R2. If you do not have an account see the head of the department at your school and reach out. I beleive any student in the school can get an account. Some might restrict it to only those that have taken a technology course in InfoTech or CompSci.
But if you are looking just for Server2012 license, with any .edu email you can go to https://www.dreamspark.com/ and Register with Microsoft to get your free Server2012, Server2012R2, Server2008R2 license among other perks like 3 months access to PluralSight, https://pluralsight.com
Go and explore! Get your free shit!