🍽️ What's for dinner? An Elephant! 🐘

Back to pecking away at these two courses that I started taking. Both via the Cisco Networking Academy (designed and developed by OpenEDG JS Institute, and implemented by the Cisco Networking Academy.)  

SIDE***NOTE

I am in LOVE with Cisco Networking Academy because I'm able to utilize my Macbook Accessibility features and accelerate my reading by highlighting the text and letting my computer read to me. 

see below, A lazy girls guide to reading on the computer: 

Step 1: Navigate to Setting/Accessibility 
Step 2: Click Spoken Content
Step 3: Select Speak Selection

A nice little controller will pop up (I couldn't figure out how to screenshot it) that will allow you to start, stop, pause and speed up/down the text voice being read to you. 

Go to the course, highlight the text you want read. 💃🏽

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I finally feel like I found a course that won't waste my time. 

1. First of all the courses are meant to lead to certifications.
2. Secondly neither of the courses have a lot of filler information. (aka, blabbering instructors)

https://jsinstitute.org/wde-certification

https://jsinstitute.org/wda-certification

SIDE NOTE: 

I must confess; my excitement may or may not 😜 have led me to also add additional courses from the Cisco Networking Academy to my dashboard.

 Specifically, 

which is the first in a 2-course series that will prepare me for the JSE – Certified Entry-Level JavaScript Programmer and JSA – Certified Associate JavaScript Programmer certification exams.

AND 

Don't get me wrong, I love reading independently, but I am so extremely excited and 😩impatient to learn the information that I lose track of where I am or get distracted and start reading some random MDN doc.

From what I can tell, most or all of the courses listed on the Cisco Networking Academy are FREE!!! A lot more reputable and a lot more inexpensive that taking those Coursera and Linkedin Courses. The only thing that I will be paying for is the exam, which has a great credential to validate my skill set (the same as a college degree, I hope).  

Web Dev Essentials: CSS (WebDev2), is aligned with the WDA™ – Certified Associate Web Developer certification. (cost: $195 for the exam)

Anyhoo......I would highly recommend this course over all of the others that I tried on the internet. 

The Web Dev Essentials: HTML (WebDev1), is aligned with the WDE™ – Certified Entry-Level Web Developer certification. ($69.00 for the exam) which prepares me for the PCEP – Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer certification exam from the Python Institute.

🤞🏾CONCLUSION:🤞🏾

Staying on this path will lead me to the following Certifications which I think is a great start to my future tech resume.

🤞🏾 WDE™ – Certified Entry-Level Web Developer Certification (HTML)

🤞🏾  WDA™ – Certified Associate Web Developer Certification (CSS)

🤞🏾 JSE™ - Certified Entry Level JavaScript Programmer Certification (JavaScript)

🤞🏾 JSA™ – Certified Associate JavaScript Programmer Certification (Advanced JavaScript)

🤞🏾  PCEP™ – Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer (Python)

This journey to the perfect training program was long and tedious. A lot of man-hours were wasted trying each course and deactivating the accounts when I didn't like something. 

But finally! I am confident that I am in the right place. I am glad I quit all of those other courses. Exhales. 

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Circling Back

July 11, 2025

I am back to where I started; 

I was exploring LinkedIn Learning last month and became easily bored with the content. 

I have no justification for the boredom other than I felt like i was going nowhere fast. 

the course work seemed like college level (blah blah) all practical and not applicable. 

I considered exploring this site name PLURALSIGHT which i found to be a federally connected resource, but felt it would make me essentially feel the same......in short, I am back where I started. 

I returned to my original stomping ground and to the website that inspired me to start coding in the first place......@Traversy Media. 

💜WEBSITE: https://www.traversymedia.com

💜YOUTUBE CHANNEL: https://www.youtube.com/@TraversyMedia

This time, I spent $25 to take his HTML, CSS from the Beginning 2.0 course just to make sure I remember everything he originally taught me. 

SOOOO MANY FREE VIDEOS. 

Already I feel like I am back to my old self. I am so inspired by his teaching style/method that I am rearranging everything to make sure i take adequate notes and am able to give his course my undivided attention 

Maybe after i run through a bunch of Traversy Media courses and complete my planned projects; I will circle back around to those other sites and explore what more they have to offer. but right now i think the most important thing is to build my confidence where i feel the most comfortable. 

Note: I am taking all of my notes in this new app on MACBOOK called OBSIDIAN 

so far it seems far more superior than Stupid Notion which was a literal pain in the ass to deal with. 

as of this draft 7/11/25 - I was inspired to wake up at 1:00am to get on my PC and work towards my Full Stack Goal. (now tell me that isn't a great sign of motivation and inspiration)

I have my Traversy Folder and my Blogger Folder in one place now so that I can stay focused. 

Logging off - DYYANNA 7/11/25

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Linkedin Learning "Career Essentials in Software Development by Microsoft and LinkedIn"

ACCOUNTABILITY LOG: (Backlog) 

I am starting a Linkedin Learning Course Title: Career Essentials in Software Development by Microsoft and LinkedIn 

Class Type: Professional Certificate 

Time Required to complete: 8 hours 20 minutes 

Overview: Discover the skills needed for a career in software development. Learn the core concepts and structure of programming languages and learn how they are applied. 

Link: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/paths/career-essentials-in-software-development-by-microsoft-and-linkedin 

Start Date: 26JUNE2025 

End Date: I QUIT 

Introduction to Career Skills in Software Development Programming Foundations: Fundamentals Programming Foundations: Beyond the Fundamentals

RESULT: 

💤I am adding this post for tracking. Ultimately, I quit Linkedin Learning because it became boring for me. I needed less details and more bullet points in the lessons. I felt like the tutorials were blabbering at me. 

I may circle back around to this platform again, but for now. I must move on if I want to stay inspired. 

Another moment in Tutorial Hell.

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