qtguru:
I smell fake news why would a company go out of their way to do that ?, unless na agent of the company acting on his own

Good morning sir, please I posted something about PC-https://www.nairaland.com/6935042/urgent-laptop help me out sir. Thanks.

Good evening computer gurus, I updated my Asus vivobook corei3 processor of 1.20Ghz 4Ggb Ram too windows 11 after receiving notifications that I should from the system which I did. But after sometime, it was so slow in responding to commands and it frustrated me a lot. I met some one who I told and he asked me to go back to the previous version which I tried to do through the setting but it wasn't going through.

What he now did was that he used a USB flash drive, installed ISO files into it and some other things which made my system revert back to windows 10 after downloading it from get into pc. A day after my touchpad and function keys stopped working. I did all sort to get them back working by downloading different drivers and pressing f6/fn+f6 but nothing worked.

I also noticed that my PC name changed from Laptop (I can't remember) to DESKTOP-U3SHOI0 which wasn't originally there. Please what do I do to get my system back in it formal and normal self, help me out it is urgent cause this is what I used for my school stuff and other things and to let you know guys I have restarted severally.

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Mods help me to push to the wilder audience where I can get mire solutions. Thanks.

qtguru:


Okeowo Aderemi trying to get one video out this week editing is noy easy

Seen, subscribed already.

qtguru:


You will be back soon, just put me in prayers as not easy creating contents while working. I'll create something that makes sense, the sentiment has been about junior devs getting jobs which I hope to over on my YouTube channel. Pele

Good afternoon sir, please what is your Youtube channel name?

Continue my software engineering journey and expanding my business.

Ilekokonit:


What I said was introductory certification exam and the certification exam is different for each Technology Application you choose to specialize / train on.

So, for example based on your aptitudes / preferences / personal strengths IF you decide to train on Microsoft 365 Fundamentals, you would google training providers online both physical locations and remote online learning, choose a provider and pay the course fee, attend the entire course, practice like your life depends on it, practice past questions for the certification exam, and once you are VERY confident you book and pay for the certification exam online, attempt the certification exam and once you pass it you start applying for LOTS of jobs on a DAILY BASIS.

The technology you choose to certify in will depend on your personal strengths and jobs availability in that Tech field and your doing lots of research on google will help you decide which technology you choose to train and get certified on.

There are just too many technologies in IT that the availability of jobs on job sites in that Tech field in the area / country you live in plus your personal choices / strengths will help shape what you decide to train / get certified on and this is where your DAILY DILLIGENT google search will come in handy although nothing learnt in IT is ever wasted.

But remember that IT / ICT is not for the faint hearted and you WILL have to devote at least 12 hours every day for 3 months to study, practice and google research to nail your certification and be able to start applying for jobs in 3 months.

In IT / ICT, practice makes perfect.

All the very best.

Thank you sir.

Ilekokonit:


The bolded above is so true and I'll liken it to sending 100 job applications everyday (as long as you have mastered or near mastered a particular IT skill-set which could be evidenced by having passed the certification exams in that tech field) and 100 job applications a day is possible as most IT jobs only request a CV ans short cover letter unlike other fields where unnecessary lengthy time consuming applications are still demanded in 2021 !!!!!

Hopefully more Nigerians will suss out that you don't need a degree to earn a very good work from home IT salary in todays tech world.

India's President probably had a crystal ball when in 1957 he prioritised IT education in his country and this had paid off such that India is not only the top destination for offshoring IT jobs from Europe and America but the top IT companies in silicon valley have uncountable Indians as their top programmers - case in point Oracle and Microsoft.

With IT, the sky is the beginning of your earning potential and you can literally earn untold wealth in IT depending on if you are ready to learn your craft to MASTER level and even if you don't want to stress your brain by continual reading / learning you can still earn good pay once you pass that first certification exam in any in-demand IT skillet.

There will always be a skills shortage in IT as there are not enough people to cope with the speed, volume and complexities of the IN DEMAND technologies that todays tech wizz kids are churning out sometimes from their bedrooms and sometimes they are still teenagers.

IT is one of the few fields you can earn $100,000 or more yearly while working from home all year round dressed in your pajamas so I'll encourage Nigerians to give it a go instead of spending too long or too much money on a Masters degree (or even a first degree) that may not be able to put food on the table.

You can always later do a degree or a masters degree part time while earning good money in an IT job and this is only if you feel the need to do so.

The payback period if you at least pass the introductory certification exam for an in demand IT skillset could be as little as 3 months if you are willing to spend at least 12 hours a day 7 days a week learning / practicing the IT skillset you have chosen and pass the introductory certification exam within those 3 months . You can actually then continually earn money using what you learnt in those 3 months for a long time to come as long as you learnt it properly and did not take short cuts.

Good afternoon, please what do you mean by introductory certificate examination? Where can I get it?

kenzysmith:
Going to brothel . And i will be a footballer , and be sturbborn to my father. I regret d yes sir i did no reward for always obey ur dad trust me . Ajebutter na sin

Same here yes sir, yes sir did not favor me at all.

Following my heart to pick Computer science instead of the Mechanical Engineering that I chose because of papa.

Nothing wrong with it, have been on the app some hours ago just logged out sef.

So nice girl. I commend you for this.
Keep it up.

What's this na? This is very bad of him. Many people dey find opportunity like this but another person go spoil his/her chance.
Bro, I am sorry he did that. What I am certain of is the that we still have very honest people here boss.

Hmm... I don't have friends, but I make sure I leave a good a impression with anyone I come in contact with; using the opportunity to network for future reason ( after assessing them to make sure they are reasonable and I can learn, benefit from them else get lost).
But say best friend, pals. I don't do that. I am a loner.

1. Diligently follow, serve and put God first.

2. No to procrastination.

3. Anything I start, I must finish.

4. No more unnecessarily friends, friendship
with purpose and benefits else cutoff abeg.

5. Diligently study and prepare for anything even though it's not exam just study for uninformed opportunities.

6. Start a business, anything at all just start something.

7.influence(s) both friends, family, well wishers should not be allowed or tolerated.

8. Put myself first whatsoever it may be. This 1 eh! Chai!

9. Secretly planning my life and doing sealing my mouth.

10. Start working on be independent. I don start this 1 Already. God help us.

stanliwise:

If he is willing to answer your questions when you have them then it is fine.

Learning can go concurrently.

But note that within a month you will understand only small part of the language that would be not so useful to you. Just forget about the timeline in your mind. Only ensure you grab an idea everyday.
Understanding is the key

Good morning and thank you for this.

Xenry:
I'm not sure, but I know you will learn a lot. In life, you will achieve more on what you do just for fun. Works are tiring, and sometimes boring.

Ok thank you.

Xenry:
Learning programing languages is faster when you're doing it for fun, and you understands it better. But once you start seeing it as work, it becomes tiring and you will start to procrastinate.

Yh I get you. But learning all the programming language in 1 month, is it feasible because I am doing it for fun?

Good evening guys, please I just started learning HTML and the others recently, currently now I am in CSS, but the developer that's is tracking my progress wants me to know HTML, CSS,JS, PYTHON, e.t.c within a month and I am worried which Kai learning is that. Funny thing he gives me 1 week to be learning all this.
I have explained that I will learn all this but not within that time frame and he is like I am not serious. The reason I can't cope with that is because I am reading my next semester courses ahead if resumption because we will resume soon and if we resume I won't be able to practice the aforementioned Web dev stuff and the rest.
Just now he told me to build a vending machine and should show him next week. Please how do I go about it and is this how programming is learnt?
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Hmm...alot.
But when I realized say nobody go help me even my papa wey say e go sponsor my school later fall hand, I no need any prophet/prophetess to tell me I gaz stand up, be stronger and find my path in life.

remi1444:
I have paid for the Javascript course. If you want I can share my login information with you.

Oh! That is nice of you sir, I will get back to you when I need them. I just wan start CSS. Thanks.

Abraham22:


Just keep on checking you can get it for 4900 that's how I buy courses there I even got a best seller web devt course for 3500 some months back

Ok. Thanks boss.

[quote author=DualCore1 post=107250578]TLDR:
1. Fullstack developer bootcamp
2. Harvard CS50x courses
3. TeachyourselfCS or OSSU or P1XT
4. Read the docs
====

If I was to start all over (from a fullstack developer point of view) I'll do a Fullstack Developer bootcamp from any of the courses with good reviews to just get an idea of how all the pieces come together to work.

After that I'll go asynchronous with my learning pattern. Two parallel streams of learning, "middle-down" and "middle-up". That bootcamp course may pretty much put me at the middle, where I'll know so much to get stuff done and to fuel my desire to know how stuff really works under the hood. I don't want to be the guy that doesnt know how/when to use recursion over a loop iteration.

// for middle-down
// objective: to deepen my understanding of the fundamentals that hardly change
======
I'll take all the Harvard CS50x courses
Then I'll take one of any of the following:
1. TeachyourselfCS
2. OSSU
3. P1XT

// for middle-up
// objective: to broaden my understand and keep up with changing technologies
// this will take a lifetime so there's no end to this phase
=====
I'll focus on reading the docs for all the techs I was exposed to in the bootcamp. So this is where I'll dig into the docs for the following
MDN, NodeJS, Express, Fastify, React, Next, Git, Openshift, Postman, Docker and so on.
Its also in this phase I'll read some good books like EloquentJS, Code Complete 2 and the YDKJS series.


There's so much involved in being a programmer but we tend to focus on a small aspect of it: coding... I may never be able to fully explain how I dislike the term 'coder'.

In the corporate world you'll quickly get to a point where you spend less than half of your 40-hour week actually writing code and more of that time:
* in meetings (some coulda just been an email),
* planning the development of features,
* peer reviewing PRs,
* writing tests with a decent amount of coverage,
* setting up delivery pipelines,
* having to triage defects,
* writing documentations

[/q

Wow, I get the gist now. Thank you very much for this.

tensazangetsu20:
Everyone that knows me off Nairaland knows I am a huge pessimist but when it comes to tech or the tech industry in general I am the greatest optimist you can find. I believe tech has the potential to change people's lives and it has done so. It is also the only industry that thrives on merit. No one cares what school you went to, what grades you had. What people care about is what you can do. You can't say the same about engineering or law or medicine.

I made this same thread last year and after working professionally for a while now, I believe there are some things that are important but I overlooked and I am making this again to guide the newbies on the right path. This thread is subjectively my own opinion but you can do your own research before picking up a path to stick to.

The focus on this thread will be on web development and the path to learning it right as I believe web development is the most profitable aspect of programming a Nigerian can get into. There are other fields but I don't know how profitable they are or how easy they are to break into.

If I was to start learning web development today in order to get a junior web dev role, I would start like this :

I would learn HTML. This is practically the easiest path and I believe absolutely everyone can learn this. After that, I would move to CSS. This is where the problem starts and by this level, people start to give up. I believe CSS is easy especially with the right course and I would always recommend Maximillian Schwarz CSS the complete guide course as that course made me not fear CSS. As you are learning these things, please build alongside. Dont just watch videos and sleep and think you have known them. Trust me you haven't known them at all. Implement the knowledge to cement it.

Once you are comfortable with CSS move on to Javascript. At this level, 80 percent of self-learners have given up. It's most people's first programming language and honestly, as a first language, javascript isn't easy. I also recommend the javascript course from Maximillian Schwarz. I still believe it's the best javascript course ever made and I still refer to it in my daily job as a developer.

Now this is where it gets tricky, I usually tell people to move on to React after Javascript, and rightly so but once you have learned javascript and you have found yourself to be very comfortable with it, start learning data structures and algorithms. I used to say this isnt important at all and was a waste of time but after working as a dev for more than a year, trust me I was just being very stupid. You cant even be a programmer without solid fundamentals in data structures. It doesn't matter whether you are a platform developer, a frontend developer, a backend developer, a WordPress developer or whatnot. You need your data structures and algorithms. It's like building a house on sand. Sooner or later it's gonna come collapsing. How do you even implement infinite scrolling in React without knowing graphs and how they work? Thats just one scenario. Double for loops in salesforce will break your org beyond proportions you cant imagine and a whole lot of other scenarios I cant even list out here which I have experienced for myself.


You don't need to spend 8 hours a day figuring out data structures and algorithms once comfortable with javascript. I recommend an hour or two a day. Learn the basic data structures (arrays, LinkedList, stacks, queues, graphs, trees) and the basic sort algorithms even if you don't understand it initially, cram it. Every day repeat what you have crammed then solve questions on leetcode easy to medium. No one will ask hard to a junior dev even medium is also very rare but just do it. Aside even learning data structures to be a better developer, its also the path to the very highly paid jobs. The earlier you learn them the better job hunting will go for you. Just imagine it like this, it takes you 4 months to be comfortable with javascript and you need like another 4 months for react, a platform and your projects and you are solving 1 to 2 dsa questions daily in the 4 months up to react. When ready to job hunt, count how many questions that is instead of waiting for when you have everything and you start job hunting to start learning it and you start failing interviews everywhere. The earlier the better even if you dont understand cram. Companies use the same questions which are available online.

Next is a javascript framework. I recommend React, I won't even advise my enemy to waste their time with vue but some will do it and still come online to cry. The react ecosystem is big and getting bigger. You have gatsby, you have blitzjs, you have Nextjs. Even in blockchain and web3 go and check most of the jobs require proficiency in React. Learn React !!! Enough said.

At this level, you should have your projects beautiful nice designs well created and implemented. Create a CV and start job hunting. Dont limit yourself to Nigeria. Apply everywhere. UK, US, Japan, Sweden. Tech transcends borders. Apply to jobs like a mad man.

At this job hunting stage, leetcode should be increased to at least 4 hours everyday and learning should still be done after React I recommend a platform. Same as my thread last year but most platform dev interviews are still algo based so no issue for you there.

You can also start looking at backend too but honestly if you have followed everything here, getting a job should be very easy.

I will like to ask a question, please do you have alternative for CSS and JavaScript tutorials because the person you recommended I went to check now and the charge is 34k+(where I wan see dat Kai money?) when converted to naira.
I know nothing goes for nothing o but as e be now na me dey hustle by myself o. Thanks.

Thank you sir for this, always looking forward for your threads/posts.

Dybala11:

Omo, that was how some of those guys began to call me mommy's boy o, a whole me.
The fact that they got to know that I'm an only child didn't even help matter too.

Chai! After you don form big boy finish and you be the only child again omo na double protection mama go dey do on top you . Nothing pass mother's love.

Dybala11:

Chai, I remembered a similar occurrence that happened to me while I was still an undergraduate. My mom went as far as making enquires from my hostel mates, hostel agent and even the Christian fellowship I was attending that time.

Lol . Omo I can imagine you feeling like

I can't stop laughing . Well your mum is just like mine but thank God I spoke sense into her and she never bothered me about all this pastor/prophet/prophetess rubbish again.

The last straw that broke the camel's back was when she called about some months ago that a particular garment church prophetess came to our house and told my mom that I have joined cultists in school, wetin pain me pass be say my mama ko dey shake tell me for phone say I don join cultist and I don dey notice say she wan dey cry.

I was so angry in my spirit because two days to the day she called me I didn't see anything to eat, so I ask her that person wey nova chop dey join cultist abi? I told to stop entertaining those sets of people mk Dem no cause division for her family and moreover she know the kind person wey I be I no know the wan wey Dem dey tell lam o.

God go help this our Africa mothers with their over religion stuff

For your haircut, I dey available. Thanks.

Good evening fellow students, as the topic says I will like to know what organization you would love to work for before/during/after schooling. Though personally I hate 9-5 jobs, not my thing at all but at least there will be an organization you would like to work for before starting your thing if at all you nova start biz already sef .

Personally I will love to work with Google(Alphabet) for sometime; mehn I don't know why but I love Google.

tensazangetsu20:

Go on LinkedIn and indeed search for jobs and apply.

Ok thanks.

tensazangetsu20:


True but for a junior Dev who is just starting out it's not easy getting an American remote job but it's easy to get Germany, Holland and co and the pay will still be ten times higher than Nigeria

Good morning sir, please how do we upcoming junior Dev go about getting jobs at Germany, Holland and co?

qtguru:


He is very right, it is easy to learn on a project.

Thank you for the response. Good morning.

qtguru:


Yes , its natural but keep practicing.

I noticed that one can't not actually learn all of the whole HTML5 before going into CSS3, cause I was thinking of learning all of them until I met with a developer. He laughed and said I will just waste my time that as I do more projects/jobs I will continue to learn new things.
Please how true is it sir? Cause I am about to start CSS3. Thanks.
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