I may benefit from taking an online training bootcamp, is there something specific I should look out for, something in the project bit?
The appropriate advice would depend on what your career goals are.
If you don’t have any technical or computer programming skills and you want to start learning, I would find some intro-level courses on HTML, CSS, SQL, and Python. There are also good playlists on YouTube that are suitable for beginners, such as Sentdex or thenewboston. Automate the Boring Stuff with Python is also very popular.
If you want to learn more about management and operations, there are plenty of links in this EA Forum post.
Spreadsheets are always helpful, so you can just Google for around for what are the most useful or valuable spreadsheet fermulas and then make sure you understand how to use them all.
Most online courses (such as through Coursera, EdX, or other platforms) will involve some level of projects, but these will usually be very small and somewhat artificial projects. I suggest that you search for ways to combine the skills you are learning/developing with real world situations. Maybe your sister runs a bakery and you can use your new CSS and HTML skills to make a little website. Maybe you can use the spreadsheet skills for a class project in your Anthropology 101 in college to display the word frequency of a religious text and compare two different translations. So as you do these things, think of two different ideas: 1) am I learning a useful skill, and 2) how will I be able to describe this in a job interview or in a cover letter or in a resume so that it sounds impressive.
The appropriate advice would depend on what your career goals are.
If you don’t have any technical or computer programming skills and you want to start learning, I would find some intro-level courses on HTML, CSS, SQL, and Python. There are also good playlists on YouTube that are suitable for beginners, such as Sentdex or thenewboston. Automate the Boring Stuff with Python is also very popular.
If you want to learn more about management and operations, there are plenty of links in this EA Forum post.
Spreadsheets are always helpful, so you can just Google for around for what are the most useful or valuable spreadsheet fermulas and then make sure you understand how to use them all.
Maybe you have money that you can spend, so you decide to to an eCornell course, or a paid course on project management, or maybe you want to take a college course online for credit.
Most online courses (such as through Coursera, EdX, or other platforms) will involve some level of projects, but these will usually be very small and somewhat artificial projects. I suggest that you search for ways to combine the skills you are learning/developing with real world situations. Maybe your sister runs a bakery and you can use your new CSS and HTML skills to make a little website. Maybe you can use the spreadsheet skills for a class project in your Anthropology 101 in college to display the word frequency of a religious text and compare two different translations. So as you do these things, think of two different ideas: 1) am I learning a useful skill, and 2) how will I be able to describe this in a job interview or in a cover letter or in a resume so that it sounds impressive.
Thank you Joseph! I just messaged you a doubt :)