As my first blog as an aspiring programmer I feel I should start in a suitably progammer’y’ (if that’s even a word) way with:
“Hello World!”
Now that’s out-of-the-way, I want to say that I don’t have a huge amount of experience as a programmer, I’m still doing my degree through Open University (for those who don’t know it’s a distance learning university for those with current employment/life commitments) but I have played around in the past with Linux boxes, RaspberryPi, a little Arduino and the like but haven’t really got into writing any sort of application so far.
I came across a YouTube channel called simple programmer and watched his videos for a few months and decided I should sign up to his free email course about how to start a blog.
One of the ideas that seems very important is to specialize into a particular area of programming which as a relative newbie is a difficult thing for me to. I have a lot of knowledge in the administration of a small business’ IT infrastructure and I am currently developing a Magento2 web store for the company but that is far too broad to be a specialization, I’ve spent a lot of time developing their crystal reports and interfacing with and working with the production Postgresql databases. As it is only a small company they required me to be a jack-of-all-trades and know about all the areas of their IT infrastructure which didn’t allow a great scope to specialise in any one area.
Now I have two things to make a decide on, first what can I blog about as I’m a relative newbie with nothing (in my eyes) to offer to anybody out there and secondly what on earth can I specialize in.
Well thanks again to simple programmer I found a video that resolved my first problem (it seems I am not the only one in this situation), John talks about how even the learning experience is blog worthy (check out his video below) and the second issue will be the subject of my next post.