And what's this shit about developing core soft skills and mindsets in “ALX Foundations" for a whole 3 months. That's a huge waste of time. Hope they are not trying to get people to do some free work 😕

I got into the cloud computing program, I received a mail asking me to confirm my participation and there is an option to select a hub. I don't know if i should pick the hub at lekki phase 1 or the one at ogba. Does anyone have an idea of what these hubs are like?

Oshin56:
Good morning sirs/ma's please I want to train myself on programming and I want to start from python, please what video materials and where can I download it online. Thanks in anticipation.

There are many good video tutorials on YouTube. For books I'll recommend Python Crash Course, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python and Learn python the hard way. These books are good for beginners. w3schools.com is also a good place to start.

HomoSapiien:


Why?

I think Google analytics teaches the course with R instead of python. Python is the go to language for data science

Notbroken:
Pls I will be moving to the states in 6 months time. Pls do recommend a tech skill I can learn in say 2 - 3 months time so I can use the remaining months to hustle. Thanks

Front-end web development
Video editing

Blessnkb62:


Yeah it was a scholarship.
I learnt that their data analysis course is easier than their SE programme

Yeah probably

adeotiabdulaziz:
bro please can you give me more information about qwasar software engineering program

Hey bro how's your software engineering journey going? I l'd like to know if you would be willing to share some materials on data structures and algorithms from this course.

Blessnkb62:
Guys, I was accepted into ALX SE programme, I heard it's extremely stressful. Does anyone here know much about it?

Hello, I recently completed the ALX data analyst program offered by udacity. The program duration was 3 months and i believe it was a good one. We had weekly connect sessions and career sessions via zoom with instructors. It can be quite demanding but if you can dedicate at least 2 hours of focused work daily you should be able to finish on time.

Did you get a scholarship and what platform are they collaborating with on this one?

Sup?

Fadafada231:


Good morning, please is this laptop ok for both web development and Android development.

Dell laptop
Core I7
1 TB HDD
12GB RAM
Keyboard Light
2GB Dedicated Graphics

I always advice people to get an SSD but this laptop is definitely ok for Android and web development. Some process will take longer time to load but you can get by with this. What generation is the i7 processor?

Slykey:


If you can transfer to GT or Access bank.. I'll buy it

What state do you reside in?

Telegram234:

have you tried using piggyvest.
they have dollar savings wallet.
you may try to fund the piggyvest with your dollars, and convert to naira flex account. ( @713 rates) i think.
then withdraw to naira.
try that.

Seriously? If that's true I'll try it out

Avast:


Oh, but why did you refuse to take it

The exchange rate is lower for smaller denominations when changing and bde

Avast:


Which bank and what happened?

Zenith bank. They simply said they don't have dollars one branch offered to pay me in 20$ bills tho but i refused

U1:


Yeah, which banks and what was the excuse? I don't think they can simply say you can't make a withdrawal.

My only bad experience is that they would want to pay you in lower denominations.

Zenith bank. They simply said they don't have dollars one branch offered to pay me in 20$ bills tho but i refused

As banks no gree me withdraw from domiciliary account how person go take get en dollar?

omo I've been trying to withdraw dollar from my domiciliary account for over a week now but the zinth bank no get dollar. Does anyone here use dom account and what do you do in such times?

Edipet:
this is the picture he sent to me, tho he has promised to upgrade the system to 8gb ram

This one is okay. Just check and make sure that it has no faults. Open a text editor and type every key, check the audio, ports and internet. Good luck

Edipet:
please how do I know Upgraded system,
I have 3 options for laptops...
one man that is shop look dirty with mixture of scrap laptop offer me this laptop.

1) i3, 5th gen _ lenovo, thinkpad e450 but has a weak battery.., 5% was out in 5min while .100k. no keyboard light...ram 4gb..
2) i5, 6th gen...dell latitude e5470, weak battery.might not last 2hr, while I was checking the system, 5% was out in 5min. 130k, with keyboard light...ram 8gb

Another man that has a clean shop, but very expensive laptop offer me this
i3, 6th gen, hp probook, battery upto 3hrs. With keyboard light...130k..ram 4gb
Which one would you choose please

I don't know bro but battery is very important. I think from the body of the laptop you can tell if it's a very old model or not. Older laptops usually have a box like shape and are quite heavy. The hp with 3rhs battery life might be the best of the 3 options you have atm.

Edipet:
please one of the sellers just called me to come pick corei3 with keyboard light,.. please would it be okay for web development,.. will it accept visual studio code app.??

I don't see keyboard light as a selling point but an i3 should be able to handle vs code. Hope it's not all this upgraded ancient laptops?

Honlucas:
Hello guys so I started learning frontend web development now I got a fully covered financial aid from Google to study data analysis for a period of 9months.
Though I plan on continuing my frontend web dev. So I will be learning both..

Guys what advice will you give me..

N:B , I'm a 200lv student of microbiology in a federal unu

A lot of data analyst/ scientists come from social/biological sciences. But i believe you'll find it easier to get a web dev job

Hinokami:

Please who has done web scraping on indeed.
I want to scrape job listings as a project but when i parse the html it is different from what i see from the page inspect tool. Ie it is less.
Is there a way to get the real content of indeed.com so i can scrape it?

I designed a web crawler for indeed. I didn't put time breaks in my code so i was extracting a lot of data per second and eventually my ip got banned. Indeed is relatively easy to scrape

Lifeiseazi:


Is it compulsory for a programming laptop to have a dedicated graphic card

Nah

Edipet:
thank you, the guy that wants to sale the laptop for me said it's ssd 128, 8gb ram and also have a space for hard disk

Good luck

yusman14:
8th gen for web development?
My PC is just 5th gen, core i3, 8 gig RAM and it is working well for web development...it is not a must to have 8th gen PC ...I have used intel core duo 2, 2gig RAM before sef for web.

He asked me to suggest a laptop of 180k and that's what i did. You don't want to purchase a laptop that would become obsolete in a short period.

Edipet:
please is ssd128 good??

Yeah 128 ssd is good

Edipet:
I want to start learning web development please recommend a laptop for me.

Go for a laptop with an intel i series (i3, i5, i7) processor 8th gen or better and a an expandable ram of 4gb or better. You can get better value for money if you get a used laptop but you need to shine your eye make them no cheat you

Xcept:

Hi
Can you recommend a system for me
Budget is 180k

Yeah sure. What do you need it for?

okpaire2005:
Hello everyone how can I run python codes on sublime text using cmd

Yes

vibrant40:
Hi everyone,

I salute all the great programmers in the house. More knowledge to your brain.

I am new to programming, although I have the zeal since I was very young, I have always wanted to work for Etisalat .

I began Python some weeks ago and I think I am done with the basics. But with the many news online and as a Nigerian who want to make at least some cash for upkeep, I feel lost. I kept seeing Python as something that is not gonna bring me some cash any time soon (please don't think I am money oriented, you know there is SAPA everywhere now.)

Please sirs, what is your advice for on the path of programming I should to at least make some money by December?

And please sirs, I need a mentor please for goodness sake.

somebody should just gimme chance and lemme be his mentee pleaseeeeeee

A lot of people keep making the mistake of learning a programming language just for learning sake then try to figure out what to do with the knowledge down the road.

My guy you are still a couple months or years away from making any money with python depending on the path you choose to follow. You can choose between web development (front-end, backend or full stack ) or Data analytics, machine learning and Artificial intelligence.

I always advice people to pick a path and learn what you need. Anything data would take a long time so if you're looking to make some money perhaps as a freelancer as soon as possible you should go for front end web development and then eventually learn both front end and back end to become a full stack developer.

N/B: Most people don't hire entry level backend/fullstack developers so as a newbie I'll say learn front-end and leave python for now because you don't need it for now.

IamLincoln:
Hey everyone, I just got my first ever laptop today having being inspired to learn programming by this thread.
Could anyone recommend the software applications to get for both daily and programming use?
Thanks.

Visual studio code, notepad++, winrar, Python etc. You can download essential apps at once at ninite.com.

TastyFriedPussy:
I'll be getting a laptop soon for web development but it doesn't come with an ssd drive... I plan on running Linux OS on it considering it's more faster and light weight than windows.. Now my question is this.

I want my laptop to be fast as possible but I can't afford an ssd(freaking expensive). will running Linux instead of windows on an HDD laptop make the laptop any faster? until I'm ready to get an ssd?

Note: my laptop's spec's not that bad
I5 3rd gen
8gb ram

Get a laptop with an ssd if you can, it'll be a good investment. But you can definitely start learning with this laptop but expect lags here and there and you may have to upgrade to a better laptop in the near future