Better now than never. Now is all there is, right?
I am writing this for myself as much as anyone else. Not only do I wish to keep a digital record of my foray into the field of computer science/programming, but I also wish to keep myself accountable.
If you have been following my blogs up until now, you will be familiar with the somewhat turbulent employment situation I have found myself in, the way Steemit came to the rescue, and the continuing struggle in trying to find out "what I should do" in regard to my career and life path. If you wish to familiarize yourself with all this, you can read about it here, here, and here.
As of now, I have begun to take some free courses online, which are basically recorded lectures from various universities. As far as accredited distance learning courses, I am still looking for a school that is cost-effective yet accredited, and which offers the courses I need (something else I am still figuring out). At the end of the day, it is not the piece of paper or accreditation that I want, but the knowledge itself which will help me to land a job either as my own boss or as a worker at a blockchain startup, or something of the like.
This could be a totally unrealistic goal. I have been told it takes a lot of time to get good at coding, but I don't know exactly what a lot of time means. I suppose any job in IT would be a start.
If any of you Steemian coders out there have any gems of knowledge to drop in regard to good courses, resources, and specific areas/coding languages I will need to study to begin work for a blockchain startup, or to help people as a freelance coder, please let me know in the comments. I will definitely shoot you an upvote for your time.
Beyond messing with lines of code for QBASIC "Gorillas" back when I had a bowl-cut in 1997, my knowledge of computer science, I'm afraid, does not extend much beyond an appreciation for precise, cut and dry, logical problem-solving, and the utility and elegance of the algorithms, etc., which enable it. I suspect, however, that this may not be the worst place to start.
Cheers.
Peace, Love, and Anarchy.
Graham Smith is a Voluntaryist activist residing in Niigata, Japan.
