How do you like it? Which course?
Have you looked at the course I mentioned in the OP? There's 55 hours and over a hundred courses, eventually going into ICND1 and 2. Does it look like a good course to you?
Do these courses go on sale a lot? I only took the chance on them cause they all seem to be heavily discounted at the moment.
That makes me feel better about my purchase. I just purchased 2 more courses. AWS architect 2019 and developer 2019 courses by the same person. These two and the Networking courses were rated by hundreds of thousands of people and all nearly 5 stars.
One of my friends recently passed the AWS Developer cert thanks to Udemy. He is a developer at TD bank here in Canada.
Are you saying to have some programming experience under my belt for my resume? I don't really know what I'm trying to learn. I just want a good job. I have some networking experience but my knowledge is spotty because I've had no formal education. I don't really have any programming experience but I'm not a complete dunce in the area.
So $330 if you were to take both tests one right after the other? No retakes I assume lol. I'm going to focus on Networking first before I start the AWS courses. Why ICND1 and no ICND2 prep?
https://www.netacad.com/courses/packet-tracer/introduction-packet-tracer this? Should I start this after the Udemy course?
Any recomendations? I have purchased a Java one which is one of the longest one(it's in spanish) and Android Studio one(also in spanish)
What labs? What kind of hand wetting are we talking about? At what point should I start learning about sub-netting?
Yeah of course. I'm a bit worried about the programming courses because, I will learn some stuff and basics but I won't be great until I can do some hands on stuff. I guess I'll figure that out when I start the courses. I'm probably going to do the networking stuff first, then java, then python then aws while working on programming projects with my cousin who gets his bachelor's this year in programming.
Depends on what you want to become or get into
I have no idea what this means. Can't wait to find out though
You can get ceritified in just about any IT field without a degree. A degree might help and taking a course with other people is certainly a positive but if you get your certification and do stuff to get things to put on your resume then your work will speak for itself. That's just my opinion though. I already have a job in the IT field with no certification but I'm mainly just doing entry level hardware and configuration related things. Someone else more experienced might say something different.
Find the course and link it please. Not really interested in game making though. Still worth it or is that main course lesson?
Cant speak for the content of the course but if the program is free then by all means go for it. If nothing else it will let you get familiar with the CLI which will be a good chunk of what a real world network engineer does. It isnt perfect but it will get you to the point of the commands being within muscle memory.
The course I bought sent me a voucher for a free CCNA Packet Tracer course, CCNA/ICND1 and CCNA/ICND2 course. I think it's was a pretty good deal. The course is by David Bombal if you're interested. It seems like he updates it a lot and there's a lot of stuff there
I bought the one by Jose Portilla because it was rated higher by more people. I hope it works for me. I'm probably not gonna be able to return these because I don't think I'll start my programming courses within 30 days. I could always take the course and buy another one on sale if it doesn't work for me. More material can't hurt. How often are there sales?
I wishlisted it since the description mostly focuses on gaming. Maybe I'll take it one day in the future. I think I might look for a general C++ course first though.
Its always "on sale". If it isn't on that particular day, wait til the next day and it will be. Don't ever pay full price. Jose is great too, I just felt his course was geared a tad bit more to those already experienced with programming.
Can I ask what was stumping you about his course? I have some cursory knowledge in programming. Very very basic stuff though.
To be honest, his explanation of the concepts and material was fine, his milestone projects were the issue for me. You would be given an introduction to classes in Python, and immediately after be asked to create a Blackjack game using classes. To me, it was too much too soon. With Colt's course, you are given mini projects throughout the course to build you up to more complex projects later. With Jose's course, I felt he explained a bunch of concepts then dumped a huge exam on you without first giving your an opportunity to explore what you've learned. But, that's just me. He's got rave reviews and I'm sure there plenty of other beginners who had no problem keeping up. I just needed a more thorough introduction and Colt's course was perfect for that.
That would suck even harder for me since I don't know how to play blackjack lol. I guess I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. How long ago did you take that course? Hopefully he's updated it based on feedback since then because I doubt you're the only one to mention something like that- at least I hope.
A few weeks ago. I brought it up in the QA section and they explained, for beginners, you're not expected to complete the project without "coding along". I didn't feel like I would truly be learning if I'm just typing what he tells me. I want to have the knowledge before hand to do it myself. With that project, I was completely clueless as to where to even begin. And I too didn't know anything about Blackjack except for trying to hit 21. I honestly loathe card games, so, I hated the thought of spending hours building a stupid card game anyway lol.
