Thursday, September 12, 2019

Reddit Post about self-taught CS

https://teachyourselfcs.com/

This website looks pretty useful!

Also a few youtube series:

Crash Course CS
CS50
ComputerPhile
Tom Scott's the basics
https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-science

 Read Code by Charles Petzold. It's a CS degree wrapped in language people can actually understand.

 https://www.youtube.com/user/mycodeschool

Coding Bat

OK, cool.  Some more stuff to look at when I get the moxy.

Sunday, September 8, 2019

A brief update

I went to a meetup call Austin Coding Mentorship.

People there were really helpful!

I saw people offering to help people get jobs, there were lots of encouraging words, and people seemed to be learning.

I was impressed and will go again.


I also went to free code camp this week, and did some coding practice there, although it never feels like quite enough.

I'm trying to keep up with javascript by using an app on my phone.  Studying on my phone means I can use my bus time efficiently.

Also, I read a guide to bootcamps.  I've been interested in going to one, and this guide came up in my freecodecamp email.  It was full of good information, but the summary at the end was good.

Three important things:

  1. Your skills
  2. Your reputation
  3. Your network
I need to make a plan to work on these three things.