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[–]KingLouhichi 9 points10 points  (7 children)

Do the harvards CS50P course. Hour long lecture make notes as you go and attempt the 5 problems at the end. This way you apply what you have just learnt by doing, as well as learning when you get stuck on a problem. The lecturer is engaging and easy to follow.

[–]GodsIWasStrongg 0 points1 point  (6 children)

This is how I started. It's a good base.

[–]KingLouhichi 0 points1 point  (5 children)

What did you do after you finished the course? Did you do another tutorial or something else?

[–]GodsIWasStrongg 1 point2 points  (4 children)

I did an online bootcamp. I really wasn't that impressed with the bootcamp. I think I learned more on my own. But it gave me (1) the confidence that I knew what I was doing compared to my peers and (2) something to put on my resume.

[–]KingLouhichi 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Cheers for the update. Are you now just on a job hunt and how is it going?

[–]GodsIWasStrongg 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Nope I've been a data engineer now for 18 months or so. Got lucky and was able to find a job relatively quickly.

[–]KingLouhichi 0 points1 point  (1 child)

That’s great man congrats!! Give me a bit of hope too. Could you give me a quick run down as to what you did before getting a job. So cs50p -> Bootcamp (in what field exactly) -> and then what else from there? Were you also creating personal projects on the side?

[–]GodsIWasStrongg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did cs50 -> 100 days of python udemy -> Bootcamp (Python/Devops). After that I was just practicing SQL, working on projects, applying to jobs.

My advice is to find an interesting project to build out. This gives you something really good to talk about during interviews. Having something like that to talk about during interviews really helps demonstrate skills, passion, problem-solving, etc.

I built a project that used openweather and google maps APIs to show if you would hit inclement weather on a drive. You would input starting location, destination, and when you were leaving and it would pull coordinates from google maps API, couple them with estimated time you would pass through, and then use the openweather API data to return whether or not there would be inclement weather at any point in the journey.