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At this point, I am beginning to narrow down what I would like my focus to be in. I am interested in cloud computing and cyber security at the moment, but am still open to other facets that may be easier to break into.

I am enrolled in the Harvard CS50 course right now, and am looking for other good platforms to learn on. I have found a couple of youtubers where I am learning python at the moment, and Java to start. If you think I should be learning any other languages at first, let me know.

If you are self taught, let me know how you became employed in tech, if not, tell me what I should be doing/looking for/working on to make a break into tech.

I have read many stories of self taught devs getting jobs in the industry, all across the board, so I know it's not impossible, I would just like some tips and pointers to help me on my journey.

I am not that smart yet, so go easy on me, but I will be listening to all advice. This is something that I feel called to do, because I am interested in it, and can see it as something that will support me and my family long term, and something that I can do from the comfort of my own home.

All advice appreciated and accepted.

Thanks.

At this point, I am beginning to narrow down what I would like my focus to be in. I am interested in cloud computing and cyber security at the moment, but am still open to other facets that may be easier to break into. I am enrolled in the Harvard CS50 course right now, and am looking for other good platforms to learn on. I have found a couple of youtubers where I am learning python at the moment, and Java to start. If you think I should be learning any other languages at first, let me know. If you are self taught, let me know how you became employed in tech, if not, tell me what I should be doing/looking for/working on to make a break into tech. I have read many stories of self taught devs getting jobs in the industry, all across the board, so I know it's not impossible, I would just like some tips and pointers to help me on my journey. I am not that smart yet, so go easy on me, but I will be listening to all advice. This is something that I feel called to do, because I am interested in it, and can see it as something that will support me and my family long term, and something that I can do from the comfort of my own home. All advice appreciated and accepted. Thanks.

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I'm on C right now. I got started a couple weeks ago then my whole family got the coof.. going to try to get through lesson 3 this weekend.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Ooooh week 3's harder problem (tideman) was a hell of a challenge. I submitted the assignment a few days ago, and it took me like a week of almost full-time brainstorming just to solve the second last function. Even after giving up and looking at different solutions it still took me quite a bit of time. I must've written that particular function at least 4 times before finally getting it right. If you're going to be doing the tideman one I highly recommend walking through the inputs step by step, writing it all down. I also highly recommend writing pseudocode as I finally got the solution working when I did a bit of that. The other issue is that the course description for the problem isn't clear on how to sort the winner in case of a tie, even though the CS50 program checker will evaluate a case where a tie happens. I managed to find out that in case of a tie you pick the winner based on the order the user entered the candidates. So if you have candidates a, b, c, d, and b and d are tied, b will be the winner. Don't worry if this all sounds like gibberish right now, it'll all make sense once you start the assignment. Good luck.

And as for your whole family catching the wuflu... That sucks, but it's not much to be worried about. Same thing happened to me about a month ago where everyone in my family except for a couple of people caught it. What's interesting is that neither age nor the amount of jabs didn't matter much. We all had fevers that lasted about 3 days and most of us recovered completely within 2 weeks or so. Hopefully everyone will also be fine in your case.