Designing My Roadmap: Organizing a 173-Hour Learning Adventure
Background
So, for those of you that haven’t read my previous article, I’m attempting to get a “Highly Proficient” or “Expert” result on a number of Pluralsight skill IQ assessments (15 of them to be exact). The courses they recommend + a few courses for the exams without any recommendations total a combined duration of 172.6 hours. I’m attempting to get through the material and assessments in two weeks.
I do have prior knowledge of programming but I’ve not programmed in these languages before, so the syntax is somewhat new to me. I have had exposure to HTML & CSS before from trying to troubleshoot issues on WordPress and light reading, but I would say my knowledge is pretty elementary. I’ve also worked with GitHub before, but I’ve always stuck to the GUIs (apps) and I was always intimidated by it.
Ordering the Content
Once again, here are the topics:
- Building Web Applications With React
- JavaScript
- HTML5
- CSS
- Redux
- Git
- NPM
- ES6
- Styling the Web with Bootstrap
- Building Dynamic Websites with jQuery
- TypeScript Core
- Language
- D3
- Collaborative Coding With GitHub
- Mocha
- Developing Websites for Accessibility
Last night, I decided to start with GitHub, since I have some familiarity with it and it was the most approachable for me. It probably would have made more sense to start with Git, but I didn’t. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I will likely go to Git next, I got a little bit of Git coverage in the GitHub course I watched last night, so it will be a nice segue.
Progress
So last night, as mentioned, I started with GitHub. I watched the first 4.5 hour course. As I was finishing it, I noticed that the other 14.5 hours of content in the learning path revisited topics that were already covered in the first course. I opened the skill assessment to see what the list of topics included and it seemed like an even spread, similar to that first course I finished, with no topics mentioned that I hadn’t been exposed to. So I decided to take the skill assessment early. Do-overs are allowed within 48 hours, so I knew I could fit the remaining material for GitHub in that time if I didn’t do well.
So I took the Pluralsight skill assessment:
Have I mentioned that I have incredibly high first-time retention?
I honestly didn’t expect to do that well, and I, myself, was pretty floored. I spent a few minutes gushing over it with my boyfriend and then I rewarded myself by letting myself take the rest of the night off. I had just saved myself 14.5 hours of material to get through, after all.
Continued Learning
I would like to eventually return to the rest of the path and watch the remaining videos. My long-term goal would be to be in the 99th percentile for everything. However, that isn’t within the scope of this pass-through’s goals. I have a job/gigs to get and more fundamentals to learn.
So off I go to learn more about Git. I’ll talk to you all laterz.
