Well, I’ve decided to do an update every month or so about what’s happened both on the channel and the website, which usually go hand in hand.
Additionally, I’ll include a brief overview of my ideas for both the channel and the website for the next month or two.
1 – News on the website
First things first, around August 15-20 I launched one of the sections I was most excited to add to the website: the interviews section. There are still a few tweaks to make, but it’s functional and everything else that’s added will just bring even more value :)
Basically, I’ll be sharing the interviews I’ve had as a programmer and posting them there. If anyone is looking for a job and has an interview with X company, this could help them see how interviews at those companies go. Or on the other hand, if someone wants to level up, they can see examples of interviews.
Of course, this is nothing without the community, so if anyone wants to share interviews they've participated in, you’re more than welcome to send them to me. Just to be clear, if you send me an interview, it will be completely anonymous, your name and email won’t even be saved in the database.
Link to collaborate with interviews
2 – Completed topics
So, with the post/video about creating the snake game the first block for the channel, basic programming, was completed. This is the starting point for anyone who wants to start programming.
Link to the basic programming course
3 – What’s next
A) Git and GitHub Course
I’ll continue with the course, either showing more about git and GitHub, though the GitHub part can actually apply to any service like Bitbucket or GitLab.
The other option is to teach Git through the command line, which seems more complex at first but is so much simpler in practice.
Link to the Git and GitHub course
B) Live Coding:
I’ll upload some live coding videos, they’re pretty cool because they barely need editing and I don’t have to prepare or think things through before recording, since it’s all live. But it can end up being a long video, like the snake game creation video which was an hour and a half. It’s something I enjoy doing, and when I start working on other topics, they’ll be real-world examples, but of course, an hour and a half video. Still, I really enjoy it, and that’s what matters!
C) Job Market
So far I’ve only uploaded one video, and honestly, I’m really happy with how it turned out. Hopefully, it helps someone make a great CV.
I’ll be uploading more videos like this. For example, how to handle an interview, and so on.
4 – September News
a) Intermediate Programming Course
Continuing from the basic programming course, I’m starting the intermediate programming course, where the first posts are related to object-oriented programming, but there will be many more.
Link to the intermediate programming course
B) HTML and CSS Course
Starting up an HTML and CSS course, web development is super important in today’s programming world, and HTML and CSS are the basics. Just like I did with the previous course, I’ll dedicate a course to the basics of markup languages and then move on to more complex things. The idea is that in the end, we can mix all the courses together so you can actually work in the field.
C) .NET on CentOS Course
Lastly, something a little more advanced: the website is on a Linux server with CentOS7, but it’s programmed in .NET. A year ago, that was completely impossible. So, one of the courses I want to do is about installing a .NET website on a Linux server.
5 – Frequency
I’ve been uploading a video to YouTube every week for the past few months, and I’ve noticed it doesn’t work that well. I’ve seen elsewhere that you should upload a video a day so the algorithm keeps you at the top and all that. Realistically, that’s impossible for me, I just don’t have that much time. In the end, one video takes several hours between recording, writing the post for the website, and editing (I’m terrible at editing).
So my goal is to upload two videos a week once I get back from vacation. Let’s hope I can pull it off :D
Bonus track: Website Updates
I have thousands of pending tasks (don’t try to hack it, it won’t work) to improve the website. So little by little, new updates will be rolling out; I need to make some improvements to the mobile version’s functionality.
And there are a few more, mostly in the admin section so you won’t see them directly.
For example, one that was tough to fix was a bug that made Google index more of my pages, so a lot of them aren’t showing up on Google, which isn’t good, but now it’s fixed, and over time it’ll sort itself out “on its own.”
And that’s all for now. Thanks so much for reading :D
