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The drama's a bit excessive.

Some/most knew Reddit would try this bs at some point, given the decisions they've been taking before this one but not charging unreasonable amounts for API access.
So if some major subs go dark and never return, still gonna stick around, though not as frequent as I used to, plus I won't be surprised if Reddit "revives" the ones they deem relevant with new mods or someone else creates a new sub to replace it

Yungbliss:
When people say you can't learn Cyber Security or Cloud Computing in three months. I agree. I want to use Tech to supplement for Masters, which I believe it will be profitable compared to the latter. Therefore, my Tech skillset is a long term journey, not a three months programme.

I know I will have challenges, most importantly, in finance, but man should not run away from challenges especially if it's worthwhile.

True this

At least you got a plan, and ignore those trying to deter you.
Imagine telling you to start a poultry farm when he/she has no idea how expensive and risky it is, known a few who quit and one who lost about 3 mil worth of eggs during the cash scarcity and NIBSS fiasco

Seriously, no one's gonna tell OP?

Look OP, the harsh truth about the field you're gonna venture into is no one is gonna hire a Cybersecurity expert or DevOps engineer with only 3 months of training, unless you got years of experience under your belt to show for it.

But if you're determined to learn, forget the noise, no one truly masters a language, and you can pick up math along the way.

Why not chat with them (Starlink), get a consultant on their end to see if it is possible and the requirements so your idea doesn't turn out to be a waste of time and resources.

You claim to be a Kernel engineer, but you can't troubleshoot and fix these issues?

Heck, some of them aren't issues to begin with

Current ALX student here and yes, I've done my fair share of copy-paste.

ALX is beginners-friendly and also challenging as well, even for those claiming to be pros.

To give you an idea, here's what ALX idea of beginners friendly, which many would balk and resort to copy-paste looks like...
You can write in Python?
Cool. Write this purely with OOP, with documentation here and there or you will not pass the edge cases set up.
Write test cases too, even if it's a small program that sums up 2 values.

The challenging part
You know DSA??
Great. Write this insertion sort algorithm in C, using a doubly linked list for the sort, use Harore partition scheme, and do not modify the linked list in any way.
Modify the list to make it bearable, test cases will not pass.

Most of the tasks can be done, but, ALX way of teaching will have you look for the solutions, sometimes practice them on your local machine (there's a reason they suggested everyone Install a VM, but many don't use it as intended) before submitting them.
Most of us here got this mentality that higher score = smarts and if it's take too long to find an answer, it's not worth it. There are books and some obscure blog that go in-depth but how many likes to read?


All in all, my take is ALX is doable. If you copied your way and cannot defend what you copied at the end of the year during presentation, hell even during manual reviews from sprint 2, you wasted your time.

techliteup:
ALX are training copy and paste programmers.

Can't tell if you're being sarcastic or serious

For the descriptions, the starting pay better be at $100k per month, cos OP is definitely looking for a backend engineer

truthCoder:
You forgot Nodejs, Angular and React

Don't forget Apache/NGINX and other unmentioned tools, DB management and UI/UX

bassdow:
see eh, we all have our ways of buying thing and experience helps also.

You definitely know your hardware.
All salient points there and like you said, experience helps.

But still, a laptop of 70k feels so-so to me, unless op can find a hidden gem out there for that price and is truly focused on react alone, then no biggie.

And yeah, agree on the MacBooks hype.
Still suggested it if op just wants a MacBook for its resale value and hype but if op were serious with react, resale value would be the last thing on his mind.

Long epistle...

I agree with bassdow on the laptop being overkill for what op wants to use it for but do not agree on getting a PC from 70k below. That's just asking for trouble.

I followed such advice, boy was that machine a headache to use with VScode and Chrome running.
You might think its performance should mean nothing if I'm motivated but tell me how I'm supposed to learn with that without worrying if it'll freeze...
Hell, some people I follow on Twitter knew about the shortcomings of using such cheap machine and said so till one got support to buy a laptop within the price range of 150k-200k early last year and last I checked, guy's doing fine as a freelancer and mentioned how potential clients ask for the type of PC you'd use, if it's slow or fast.
Hell, my last job had my former employer ask what type of device I used before carrying on with the interview, was weird at the time but it got me the job nonetheless despite other factors against me.

Fast forward today, I borrowed sense from the guys experience and mine, got a 745 G5 laptop (8GB dual channel upgradable RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 2500U) for 170k.
Flashed Fedora with Gnome, currently got 3 instances of Emacs and Firefox open with about 10 tabs and a few buffers open in different workspaces, at some point a VM running Ubuntu and a few apps running in the background scattered about in each workspace and its fast.

Short of it is op, look for better budget options.
If spending that much won't make your pockets bleed, go for it, else consider budget options but from 150k-250k unless you can snag a deal for way less than 200k
Basically target laptops with CPUs from 5 years ago.

Avoid the i3s laptops and MacBooks from 2k16 up to 2k19 though (unless you plan on buying an external keyboard to use), keyboard issues and upgrades are hella expensive

Melanin07:
8. Buy an apple MacBook. Don't ask me why.

Why is it that almost everyone thinks its a necessity to own a macbook...

anyone here wants to vouch for dorzinetech?
want to do some transactions with him

Dorzinetech:
It's available. Whatsapp 07032353132

check your inbox fam

Dorzinetech:
AVAILABLE....

still up for grabs?
if so, your contact info

Crappy pay alright, but the system's messed up in this country.
Rather take it to rack up some xp for future job hunts.

Deicide:
Learn C++ first. If you learn C first they you are going to carry some bad habit over to C++ because valid c code is also valid C++ code but not the other way around.

bad habit?
mind expanding on what that meant??

Raheeqilmaktoom:
Is there any reason for that particular line?

he's got no prior employment or training, kinda like saying you're a full-fledged lawyer if you haven't passed the bar

First off, get rid of that title you gave yourself

To your question, you need no invitation to contribute to a project

Fork a repo, make meaningful changes/fix bugs, submit a PR and wait for code reviews to be over (if its merged, you made a contribution). There are guides on the net and github docs too.

Also make yourself "useful" by posting on programming communities like reddit, twitter and co to make yourself known.

Book recommendation
Mostly pseudocode (implement in any lang you comfy with)

https://mega.nz/file/0ldUlCyQ
key: rjpHFIhD7IlPQNGx-HxeyWkgL2oFKhNqPRyMMHwPPkk

Look, both are challenging based on the job description but the backend got more to worry about and sometimes, their reputation is on the line too

API protocol (REST, SOAP or RPC?, exposed or hidden?). All to make sure we're keeping things secure so a bad actor does not access sensitive data.
Frontend worry? What framework to use which is - no offense - pathetic. You can stick to mastering one or two instead of trying to cram em all because one got a fancy and shorter way of doing something.

Good design pattern. After all, you gotta maintain your code right or you'd stick to dirty hacks and that's bad practice and unsafe.
Frontend don't really have this luxury, especially for those who jumped straight into learning a framework after skimming the surface of a language they learned.

Monitoring the server for irregular activities, it never, ever ends after deployment. You might be thinking "but backend devs handles security and stuff, why is there a need to monitor something that's already secure", well we do but not every package is secure.

As the packages used gets updated/patched, we gotta make changes too without any downtime (anyone familiar with web servers/DevOps knows what's up).

There are other stuff but I'd say not to take talks about how the backend is easy. We reuse code from different projects doesn't mean it is easy.

OP your negativity concerning Nigerians is worrisome and some of your comments get as e be. Also deleting Twitter? Hmm...

I doubt your claims about zero educational material out there by Nigerians unless you are looking for ones to get for free, which you will not find easily but in terms of writing, there are educational articles littered about on the web written by Nigerians but it depends on what you are looking for and how popular the language is.
After all, I learnt how IIFE works (did not know about design patterns then) from reading a few articles on medium written by Nigerians but if you meant those who turned into a full-time gig, if you see any, will you patronize them and pay for it? If you cannot or use the "but i know where i can get what they teaching for free", you creating this thread is pointless.

C
Speed, communicates with machines and makes learning other langs quite painless if one switches out some of the syntax

peterincredible:
C#(dot net) or php laravel guess what they continue to say php is dead, php is dead but where I work we have been looking for php laravel developer now for two weeks and they are no where to be found

I have gone to an interview early last year(2021 and every body there where mern stack and just one PHP developer then it dawn on me that I need to add php to my skill set and I did and b4 I new it I got a job, left it and got another and you know what is scarce tend to command more value I will advice to go for c#(dot net) and php (laravel)

True that you knowing something makes it more valuable but there is a clear difference between a rare dev who knows his/her stuff in a stack and another whose goals is to get in and start learning proper when things are not what they seem to be

Also the question ebuka asked seems harmless, given OP got in 2 months and from recent posts about the layoffs and hiring freeze, which would explain this post and his question

for the langs:
python is getting the JavaScript treatment here in popularity but should do for DSA, plus it suits your needs if you itching to learn something else

java like php is being made fun of but is excellent for DSA but you gotta sit down and learn and practice it, watching videos alone won't cut it

php for mostly freelancing and jobs at agencies

chukwuebuka65:
For your mind now, you have mastered all the languages you posted above , abi? What is “collapsing margin”, what is “stacking context” and what are the different ways to create one? What is “preserve-3d” and what does it do. What is web accessibility? If you can’t answer these questions without googling, then you are still an amateur for frontend. I don’t want to talk about nodejs. Have you gone to nodejs documentation? I am not sure.

This is too much na
Ask them stuff based on what one learns by watching videos alone

For Nodejs, what are design patterns?
List the types with code samples

Ajibade123:
Please how can i get the Java own or can you send me

LibGen or z-lib

Depends on the language

Books I use are Sedgwick algorithms books (one written in Java, other in C but read the Java one because it explains the concepts well enough for a beginner to grasp and use in other languages if you know how they work)

Then there's CLRS book called introduction to algorithms (not beginners friendly, not in any language, just pseudocode but worth the read if you understand the concepts)

I highly disagree with OP.

It depends on how well you can assimilate the concepts one is trying to grasp and it depends on the book one starts with.

Take me, I'm learning C.
Lots of videos on C but stuck with C programming book by King. Deleted the videos to allow for space for them books and music

Algorithms?
Books (one by Sedgwick, another a hand guide to breakdown the complexities of the algorithm).
Tried watching some but oh boy, each creator has their own way of writing code and most don't explain some concepts properly, only doing half and expecting you to read the rest(yes, read)

Debugging?
Beginners should waste time looking for videos that answer his/her problem instead of cultivating a reading habit by reading docs and checking out man pages?


Overall, books trumps videos anytime and these books got exercises and mini projects which increases in difficulty as one progress.
Plus you don't really learn if you copy whatever the person you're watching does but it's different if you read about it, wrote the code and it worked.

A degree.

Bootcamps (think the ones offering 6months+) and a good portfolio, with some unique projects should get you an interview for intern/junior roles for self-taught these days.

Memes
Clash royale
Music

If i were you and you really serious about the program (it's ALX if anyone is wondering, dunno what's so sensitive about it), you'd go back to your friend and take him up on his offer, unless there are caveats.

If you don't see the help you need and still wanna use your phone, get a Bluetooth keyboard to save your thumbs.