Monday, March 19, 2018

My First Certifications

I shared last time that I was enjoying learning Kotlin through the Android course I had started. That got me going back to the earlier Java based Android course I was working through, to better appreciate the differences. That course had been updated since I started it, including some Kotlin as well. I also learned that that instructor, Rob Percival of codestars.com, had started to offer access to various programming certifications through the Cambridge Certification Authority.

That led to me getting my first certification, a Java Level 1 certification. Then through a Complete Web Developer course from Codestars, which I had purchased and planned to get to at some point, I started learning more and working on more certifications.

As I wrote about some time ago, I had written my first websites back in about 1994 using basic HTML. Now I've had a lot of fun getting up to speed with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I've enjoyed working on the projects in the course and was also able to program a Nooka clock in short order. I enjoy having that run on my desktop at work all the time now.

Having completed the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript level 1 certifications, I'm now starting  to learn jQuery.

Knowing that some of my app ideas could also benefit from a web version, I knew that I wanted to learn some more web development at some point and now I'm really having a great time doing so.

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