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PeaceJoyLove:
Von02, is this guy your son or younger sibling?

Well sir, I have read everything here. I have this to say. I was in engineering when I was encouraged to pick up programming. Imagine, I was provided nothing order than cash to attend a programming school then. I didnt have a computer then because those who encouraged me did not know a computer is essential. I just couldn't navigate what I want to do with it. Anyway, I quit it. I left Nigeria after some years, and I faced C in school. That was my first serious encounter. This was a long time ago ooo. I still didnt understand what exactly it was meant for.

Until I started working that I saw the need. I saw need for Automation (robotics) cos artisans I work with are useless. Also, I read wide, I started seeing the same challenge all over the world. And then, Elon Musk came up with his recent Telsa robots. And he said that "Almost all unskilled activities will be replaced by robots". What does this mean, mainly activities which require our cognitive part of the brain will remain relevant in the next 20 years. Very soon, laborers carrying cements in construction sites will not be available. Police non skilled work will be almost dead except deep invsstigations, restaurant attendants, cashiers in banks, etc. will be eradicated very soon. In short robots will take over almost all repetitive jobs. Jobs that dont require our brains but are repetitive in nature will no longer be available. So, start thinking.

My advise is that you follow big fours and some management consulting quarterly or annually released documents. Usually they release business trends. I read that of McKinsey recently and they wrote about rhe future market place. The whole market place on the internet will change. I believe you understand how Jumia and Konga operate in Nigeria. So, think of Ebay, amazon, and other ecommerce sites you know. Have you ever bought anything from Jumia? If yes, you should know that the first challenge they face is returning of goods. Customers were returning goods they dont like. This is bad for ecommerce sites. Some dont like the colors, sizes, efc they picked. And you know most clothing are from China where standard of production is not followed. 10 different shoes can have size 40 written on them, and they are of different sizes. You buy shoe A and it's ok, and shoe B is too small, shoe C might be too big. And all have 40 on them. Lol. But when you go to a market where you can test the shoes you have no trouble. Right? In the future, there will be virtual testing of products. You can put the shoes or clothings on virtually so that you know how it fits you without having physical access to them before buying. That's tech bro lol.

See, virtually everyone presently not working on the computer will lose his job in 20 years. This is just the case. So, those people who provide alternatives will rule.

But if you ask me exactly what you should learn, I cannot tell you. No one can tell you. Can you predict the business which will be relevant in 20 years? Can you still say Dangote will still be the richest man in 20 years? Will he even be alive? No one knows. We can only take steps day by day as we go with it. And it is why we keep updating ourselves. We keep learning. We keep shaping ourselves.

The reason I have decided to take you on a long talk is cos someone tagged me to answer you. And you are still very young. See, if you are being advised to look into programing, it is good. But from what I am seeing, it is not what you are really exposed to in your secondary school. To me, someone is trying to ask you look into it. If not, you wont even think of law if it's your first passion. No one born to be a coder will ever look into medicine and law. Engineering is still ok. But law and medicine? Nope. But it doesnt mean you cannot do both, but if you have to study law in Nigeria, the truth is that it is almost impossible. The system here is rubbish.

All I am saying is that you have to find your place in it. Even I was in engineering, it took me many years to find my place. And it's because the Nigerian educational system was not structured well in my days. And when I moved abroad, I still couldn't find my bearing. So, I really think the educational system contributed to confusing me, and then, but i faced the reality that i was my own challenge. It was just me. Maybe if I attended high school in the UK or US, I would have entered it earlier. Maybe. I don't know. But I am certain, the system delayed me more.

But guess what? The year I saw where I fit in was my own start. Though, it took a long time, but eventually, I got it. It is called self discovery which gave birth to innovation. It is not exciting until you start enjoying it. Seriously, I dont know how you will enjoy studying law and coding in Nigeria. It is almost impossible. I should be real with you. If you find yourself doing good in it, trust me, you will abandon law. Dont get me wrong...it is ok if you combine the two. But for you to be successful in school studying law in Nigeria, you must pay more attention to law; else, your grades will suffer. No matter how brilliant you are in Nigeria, you will lose focus if you dont focus in law cos the lecturers here are mad set of people..even in private universities, they are same. It will be fine if you are successful in programming after you quit law, but if you are not, your parents may even disown you. The ones who told you to start programing now will not be there for you. And if you study law and you have no job after, you have yourself to blame also. You just keep struggling and then, you are already getting oldschool and newer things are already happening.

This is life. Most advising you here are not even successful in life yet. Lol. They are just telling you to do Kotlin, dats science, bla bla bla, etc..

I do not know how good you are with what you know. You just said you have started learning sql. How you even enjoy doing it is a misery. It's boring without knowing what you need to use it for. No one needs to tell me that you are just pushed into this. It's not what you really desire to so. Or how did you get to know about sql? You dont want to learn what you wont use later, and its sql you started with. Dont get me wrong, computer may be what you like, but there are different aspects. Parents even mix up designing with coding.. they are complete two different areas. I k ow someone who did well with corel draw after secondary school, and went to study computer science. She hated coding so much that her grades were affected. But after school, she rediscovered herself and she is a big game in photography and video making. She is even into 3 d designing now, and then trying to get into building designing. Lol. And her work is on computer even now. 24/7. It's obvious this was what she was meant to do. She should have read architecture, building, sculpture, or art in school.

Find out if you can get any free boot camps around you. See if you can join any technological groups for your peers where they teach coding, building of engineering pieces which involves using electrical circuits (it can be virtual and not necessarily buy real electeical circuits), etc. The aim here is to work with your peer group. It may even be games they will introduce you to first. You may have to play games to understand the trend. If you dont play games, how will you know what gamers like and what should be done? Gat it? This is my point. If you don't knkw the trend of what's happening, how can you build? You must know the trend. You must enjoy it. So, get yourself into a boot camp for your peer group. Dont join older or too young people. Join people of your age and start learning.

If your passion is really in this, why go for law? And if law is your passion, why worry yourself with it now. Just focus on law and somehow when you find a need for it it in law, then go and learn what you need to solve the need in law. It is a simple as this. You aren't in the US UK, or Canada where you can get counselling. Even the counselor here doesnt understand it, or the fellow is hustling to meet ends ...so no time for you.

If you insist on doing something now even without full understanding of what you want to do, pick up a programming language instead of database. SQL is about database and can change anytime. Picking a programming language which we know will be relevant is ok. The aim here is not to just know the language, but to program your brain into how computer program works. When you know a language, you can easily learn another. But the challenge here is that it will not be easy. It is boring. If you dont see the need, it will frustrate you. This is the truth. This is the challenge of many. Since it is boring, they eventually give up.

So, go and try python and see how it goes. If you dont like it, drop it and focus on your law. Honestly, I would have shown you more things but that law you wrote up there is why I cant. Your first passion is not coding. I will just advise you to face your law if really you ask me. But before you do, try python. If you like it, fine...you can continue. But I dont see how you can combine coding and law esp in Nigeria. If you are still in school studying law, trust me, you arent enjoying coding, or you haven't see the real reason to do it. And I know how Nigerian parents are, they will almost kill you for bad grades in school. Even you study computer science or engineering in school, you must limit coding. Those lecturers dont teach new things. They teach crazy old things..and you must pass.

If truly your passion is coding, your best bet is just to leave Nigeria. If not, please focus on law here. When you leave school, you can still enter. Though it will be a bit late but not too late. Still better than losing focus in the uni, your parents disown you, and then that's when life turns upside down for you. This is the story of Nigeria. Stay safe bro.

Goodluck sir!

Wow.

I really can't thank you enough for taking the time to read through my post and give me this information. And no, I'm not Von02's relative. I'm Just a Jambite trying not to mess up his life.

If I'm being honest I don't think I have a passion for law. It was suggested by my parents almost immediately after I finished my junior WAEC and I have been doing well with art related courses so far.

The problem is that sitting down, poring thought endless law textbook for a job that might not even be relevant in a few years(due to the unstable nature of the country) doesn't look like something I want to do in the future.

But when it comes to programming I can find myself sitting in front of a computer screen for hours on end without getting tired. At least that's the case for the SQL I've been learning.

I feel like coding is my real passion as it's something I can actually see myself doing in the next 3-4 years. The problem is that I don't know how my parents would react if I told them considering all the trouble I went through to get the admission (lol). They seem to think it's something I can combine with my studies but it's obvious that I can't.

With what you've said maybe I'll just try the python and SQL and just try to get through university without going insane.


Also, thanks for listening to me for this long.

And why did you ask if I was Von02's relative?

kennethfranc:
HTML
CSS
JAVASCRIPT

How much can I make if I have these languages at my disposal. I mean for salaried jobs.

kennethfranc:
Jumping to back-end doesn't end well most times so I suggest you start with front-end.

Ok which front end programming languages would you learn first if you were in my shoes?

I'm trying not to learn any languages I won't use in the future.

Sheriman:
Hope you have at least 8GB RAM laptop with 256SSD cos Google has upgraded Android Studio and JetBrains also did the same with IntelliJ idea.

Nope I use a 4 gb ram laptop with 465 SSD

kennethfranc:
I guess you've heard/read the juicy part of Data analyst. Read & research more on web development to get a clue, then return with questions.

Ok, I've done some research. Since I'm learning MYSQL already would it be advisable to start learning other types of back-end web development like Python and Java and pHp or do front-end first like most people?

Sheriman:
Every area is profitable in IT so far you are serious and dedicated to it. Why I suggest Kotlin for you is that there are a lots of documentations, PDFs, Kotlin exercises you can read and practice. Google supported it and they are providing a lot of tools and framework for Android development.

Make your own findings about the language, if you like it, you can start learning the language.
Learning and understanding the basics will take you one year to two though depending on your seriousness and dedication.

Thanks for the advice. I really appreciate it.

Sheriman:
Why can't you learn Kotlin programming language for Android development.

Forgive my ignorance I just got into IT recently which and I don't really know the most profitable areas of IT to learn. which is why I'm asking what I should learn.


Please how long would it take to learn the Kotlin?

Kaodiri15:
It depends really on what you would like to do with the language you learnt.
Different languages are best for different things.

Ok, let's say I want to go into web development. Do I start with front or back end?

Hello thread viewers.

I just finished secondary school this September and I would like to know which Languages I should learn. I would also like to know if I could combine the learning with a competitive subject like law in university without losing grades.

I've already started learning SQL and plan to learn Tableau before getting admitted to university this January but I'm having trouble deciding where to go from there.

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atheistandproud:
Nice idea.

Thank you bruv.

Also remove this quote I do t want other people seeing this.

atheistandproud:
Nice idea.

Thank you bruv.

Enjoy yaself

atheistandproud:
Na PES way be that.

I was part of the top 4000 players in Nigeria. I was hoping to enter top 100 then I made the mistake of winning 5 matches in a row

My team btw. I'm not superman.

Same happened to me I went from 1332 to 1182 in days thanks to scripting.

Someone can't win 5 matches in a row in peace.

Boxonyl:
The diagram below is a design on the window of a building. The curved part XY is an arc of a circle. (The centre of the circle is not Z). The rise of the segmental arc is 10cm, its span is 100cm and ZX=ZY=120cm.
Calculate, taking π to be 22/7 where necessary (a) the radius of the circle (b) The area of the segmental cap correct to 2s.f. (c) The total area of the design, correct to 3s.f.

Are you sure the centre of the circle isn't Z?

Amazing write-up OP. can you explain what civil law is about?

Hey guys is 255 enough to study law in lasu?

Just wrote today will post when my result is ready.

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Alll

Mrshape:
Wao!
That's impressive.
I will always mention you.

Thanks Mrshape

Mrshape:
OK I will add your name to my list.
What's your qualification?
Are you a teacher?

Student

16 yrs

Mrshape:
Yes that was my solution.
I told the student to tell the teacher to check is solution again.
When you tell schools to pay for staff training in math they will think it is not necessary. This is the result

Hehehehehe nice one

Pls make sure to mention me on any maths related thread next time.

Mrshape:
Nice observation . but I think that is the student fault. Because he he used a radius of 14unit in his solution. So the he might have included radius but the student did not indicate it.

Please check is solution assuming he gave a radius of 14 is the solution correct?

It is not correct. This is the real solution

Mrshape:
Is that all you can see?

there is not enough information.

the radius of the sector is not given. We need it to get the base radius of the cone.

naijacovid:
genius

Are you being sarcastic?

naijacovid:
Where x from enter here

I used ☓ to represent the missing value.

Mrshape:
You are correct.
That fraction can be reduced to y/1
1≠0
Thus the no value of y will make the fraction undefined.

Thanks Mrshape.


I guess I can actually help my kids with math

sapphiere:
Omo see freshness.

Nothing made my day than seeing the most popular Nairaland moderator endorsing the movement.

The FUTURE is FEMALE whether we like it or not.

That was taken out of context.