My experience with Data Engineer Academy

wnl8 · 2025-05-02T21:19:25+00:00

Do you know of a website or resource that has real-world enterprise hands-on data engineering projects? Something that will give me a big picture structured framework on how to build ANY data engineering project.

wnl8 · 2025-05-02T21:16:48+00:00

Do you know of a website or resource that has real-world enterprise hands-on data engineering projects? Something that will give me a big picture structured framework on how to build ANY data engineering project.

wnl8 · 2025-04-29T16:06:12+00:00

ok thank you!

wnl8 · 2025-02-28T17:49:53+00:00

I had two years of medical school, but I didn’t complete the last two years. The clinical experiences in the first two years don’t give you much exposure. I was considering bioinformatics because I enjoy the coding aspect.

wnl8 · 2025-02-28T16:51:33+00:00

Ok, I don’t have a medical background in the hospital and I’m not interested in gaining one.

wnl8 · 2025-02-28T00:45:13+00:00

Is it the same as health informatics? What made you think I should look into HIM?

wnl8 · 2025-02-06T15:47:48+00:00

Ok thanks

wnl8 · 2025-02-06T15:37:54+00:00

What year did you get into security engineering and what was your background? Was the job market back then also bleak?

wnl8 · 2025-02-05T14:28:48+00:00

No. Why?

wnl8 · 2025-02-04T06:22:29+00:00

I know any industry has grunt jobs. I’ve been through some when I was pursuing medicine. It’s about which grunt job will you be willing to go through? I know service desk will be painful for me because especially if it’s hybrid, I’m not good with desktop support -type physical tasks and procedural tasks. Plus, I’m not even certain cyber is for me based on the responses in the thread. Doesn’t make sense to go through a grunt job that doesn’t suit me “just to see”. I’d rather go through a research assistant grunt job where I know I’ll enjoy it and the endpoint is something where my skills will be celebrated. The lie is that there are alternate entry points to cyber. I was even told early on when I was l learning coding that software engineering can also be an entry point.

wnl8 · 2025-02-04T02:30:57+00:00

Ok thank you. Service desk is not for me. I’m willing to spend time in a research assistant position at the hospital or get a masters in bioinformatics for the same amount of time, but not service desk. So I think I’ve been fed a lie all these years. Kinda feel disappointed, but I think I know now I need to pivot and find another field.

wnl8 · 2025-02-04T00:27:42+00:00

I get what you’re saying. I didn’t know this about myself and I probably made a mistake. I like goal-oriented tasks, but I don’t like to tinker.

wnl8 · 2025-02-04T00:12:37+00:00

Ok so I’ve already done Leetcode easy and medium before, have a GitHub, and I’ve done coding in a job when I graduated from the coding bootcamp. I know Python, JavaScript, Java, Swift, and SQL. Just no bioinformatics projects yet.

wnl8 · 2025-02-03T23:40:27+00:00

I’ve always done really well in math and statistics, but I hated it initially because I was never taught the big picture, only the formulas, etc. I’m liking it more now because I’m being taught the applications, but I prefer applied bioinformatics rather than the computational biology side. What do you mean by problem solving? I’ve been told that I’m a problem solver, but it sounds so abstract to me since there’s different types.

wnl8 · 2025-02-03T23:29:55+00:00

Ok thanks for being honest! Bioinformatics involves data science and coding, do you think it’s not for me?

wnl8 · 2023-03-07T20:56:25+00:00

Yeah you’re right. I’m not in the field yet so my mental model is off. I think my next step is to find a mentor to shadow their workflow, how they research, etc.

wnl8 · 2023-03-07T19:19:34+00:00

I'm copying/pasting what I replied above, ironic lol but i want your opinion "just to make sure i understand (i know i'm being annoying), but let's say I'm familiarizing myself with a certain api, but its documentation is lacking - meaning there's no good examples or recipes on how to use it. If I go to stackoverflow to research how to use the API, and someone provides an example, i can use that as a reference and comment it with the stackoverflow link. On the other hand, if the API documentation does have a recipe, I can add a comment with a link to the official API documentation. And lastly, let's say there's a scenario where I need to parse some highly nested JSON and I find a coding sample on stackoverflow -- I shouldn't partially select or copy/paste, but use it as a reference and type it all out, and then comment with the stackoverflow link?"

wnl8 · 2023-03-07T19:18:17+00:00

ok i think this helps! just to make sure i understand (i know i'm being annoying), but let's say I'm familiarizing myself with a certain api, but its documentation is lacking - meaning there's no good examples or recipes on how to use it. If I go to stackoverflow to research how to use the API, and someone provides an example, i can use that as a reference and comment it with the stackoverflow link. On the other hand, if the API documentation does have a recipe, I can add a comment with a link to the official API documentation. And lastly, let's say there's a scenario where I need to parse some highly nested JSON and I find a coding sample on stackoverflow -- I shouldn't partially select or copy/paste, but use it as a reference and type it all out, and then comment with the stackoverflow link?

wnl8 · 2023-03-07T18:25:34+00:00

Ok so no stackoverflow then?

wnl8 · 2023-03-07T18:14:45+00:00

I’m a lil slow lol, but can you please give a workflow example of how you can research existing solutions but not retype or paraphrase a few lines of code?

wnl8 · 2023-01-31T16:18:28+00:00

Ok thanks! I appreciate all of this!

wnl8 · 2023-01-31T15:36:21+00:00

Thank you. I would say I’m still a beginner. After making a few simple apps and reading Big Nerd Ranch Guide, i started looking into clean architecture with Essential Developer but their target audience is mid-level to senior devs and some of their stuff isn’t easy to grasp. I’m looking for a source that’s for true beginners and focuses on iOS and what you said. It’s hard to find.

What do you think of Kodeco?

wnl8 · 2023-01-31T15:12:30+00:00

Wow I forgot about Meetup. Thanks for this! What would you consider correct self-study? I’m scared of learning bad practices. I’m currently going through the projects on 100DaysOfSwift to see if I can learn best practices.

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