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5:38pm - And now for something completely different.
I only lasted at the Robert Q job for about a week before it became clear my driving reflexes and skills weren't good enough for safe bus driving and I had to leave the job. Now I'm going to refocus back on getting a job in computers. I'm going to aim for a wide spectrum of tech jobs, from Video Games developers to Software developers to backend web development and database management.
So, I've got some things I need a refresher on and some things I just don't know and need to study. I'm going to start that study now, with ASP.NET which I haven't used before, but it's very popular and has a nice introduction on their website.
I'd like to refresh myself on Database design and management since it's been like, four years since I've done anything with a relational database, and I've never used a NoSQL database. Actually until yesterday I thought NoSQL was a database technology itself, it turns out it's just a catch all term for non-relational databases that don't use SQL, like MongoDB and Redis. Well, learning is what I'm all about, right? Heh.
I'm also going to be going to some job fairs starting with one in a little over a week, and some more in April. So that's exciting. I'll try to prepare what I can before then.
7:30pm - Two hours later and I'm making good progress. Not only have I made a nice ASP.NET Hello World! but I've gone quite far in a more advanced tutorial. That said, the more advanced tutorial is doing a lot of 'Push this button to automatically generate a ton of stuff!' instructions. It does a fair job of telling me what that generated stuff is, but not how to make it by hand. I can remember syntax for coding or look it up, but I can see it'll be challenging to remember how to do all this...
Also in brief times when I had to wait for a download or something I've been working on https://www.freecodecamp.org/ which offers some web dev certs and teaches a lot. I've mostly been doing their basic stuff that I already know how to do, but only because doing it checks it off a list. I like that.
Oh yeah and I should mention that the ASP.NET tutorial for Razor Pages that I'm working on is very advanced despite being the first tutorial linked to by the ten minute Hello World tutorial. If I didn't know so much about databases and web app development already I'd be totally lost.
And I still have no idea why they're called "Razor" pages. It doesn't seem to be an acronym or a descriptor, my best guess is somebody just chose it at some point and it stuck.
7:42pm - Man that GDPR digs deep, there's even preparations for it built into the class names in the API, like CookiePolicyOptions.
7:54pm - The next tutorial to work on is this one:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/tutorials/razor-pages/page?view=aspnetcore-2.2&tabs=visual-studio
However, I want to take a break and look for some tutorials on simpler .NET concepts. I think I might have some more to learn about there before I start doing advanced ASP.NET stuff. Maybe not, but it wouldn't hurt to look around the documentation.
8:30pm - Alright I learned a lot of interesting things about .NET today but I'm officially out of time. I've got to go home, play video games and cook a pizza in time for my Roommate to cut it when he gets home.<br /<
I only lasted at the Robert Q job for about a week before it became clear my driving reflexes and skills weren't good enough for safe bus driving and I had to leave the job. Now I'm going to refocus back on getting a job in computers. I'm going to aim for a wide spectrum of tech jobs, from Video Games developers to Software developers to backend web development and database management.
So, I've got some things I need a refresher on and some things I just don't know and need to study. I'm going to start that study now, with ASP.NET which I haven't used before, but it's very popular and has a nice introduction on their website.
I'd like to refresh myself on Database design and management since it's been like, four years since I've done anything with a relational database, and I've never used a NoSQL database. Actually until yesterday I thought NoSQL was a database technology itself, it turns out it's just a catch all term for non-relational databases that don't use SQL, like MongoDB and Redis. Well, learning is what I'm all about, right? Heh.
I'm also going to be going to some job fairs starting with one in a little over a week, and some more in April. So that's exciting. I'll try to prepare what I can before then.
7:30pm - Two hours later and I'm making good progress. Not only have I made a nice ASP.NET Hello World! but I've gone quite far in a more advanced tutorial. That said, the more advanced tutorial is doing a lot of 'Push this button to automatically generate a ton of stuff!' instructions. It does a fair job of telling me what that generated stuff is, but not how to make it by hand. I can remember syntax for coding or look it up, but I can see it'll be challenging to remember how to do all this...
Also in brief times when I had to wait for a download or something I've been working on https://www.freecodecamp.org/ which offers some web dev certs and teaches a lot. I've mostly been doing their basic stuff that I already know how to do, but only because doing it checks it off a list. I like that.
Oh yeah and I should mention that the ASP.NET tutorial for Razor Pages that I'm working on is very advanced despite being the first tutorial linked to by the ten minute Hello World tutorial. If I didn't know so much about databases and web app development already I'd be totally lost.
And I still have no idea why they're called "Razor" pages. It doesn't seem to be an acronym or a descriptor, my best guess is somebody just chose it at some point and it stuck.
7:42pm - Man that GDPR digs deep, there's even preparations for it built into the class names in the API, like CookiePolicyOptions.
7:54pm - The next tutorial to work on is this one:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/tutorials/razor-pages/page?view=aspnetcore-2.2&tabs=visual-studio
However, I want to take a break and look for some tutorials on simpler .NET concepts. I think I might have some more to learn about there before I start doing advanced ASP.NET stuff. Maybe not, but it wouldn't hurt to look around the documentation.
8:30pm - Alright I learned a lot of interesting things about .NET today but I'm officially out of time. I've got to go home, play video games and cook a pizza in time for my Roommate to cut it when he gets home.<br /<
