MALE_1: Wrapping up the course.
These are some books I highly recommend.
If you were to ask me out of these six books,
are there any that you can narrow
down, what's your favorite?
I would say, by and large,
The Mythical Man-Month,
The: Essays on Software Engineering.
This book is fantastic.
Then the other one I would highly recommend,
if nothing else, would be
the Code Complete, very popular book.
Then I also have several articles posted
in Canvas that I highly recommend.
They're pretty short articles,
not like a bookers or anything.
The Mythical Man-Month was written by
a IBM engineer back in the '70s.
The essays and stuff still apply and are true today.
For example, I wanted to say it's Chapter 2 that says,
a software engineer's second project
is the most dangerous project of his or her career.
That definitely resonates with
me as the author says that the second project,
what happens is the engineer takes all of
his or her lessons learned from
the first project and
gets carried over into the second project.
It just ends up being over-bloated,
overthought, and this happened to me.
I took all my lessons learned in the second project.
I'll just say the second project
never saw the light of day.
It was just too much over-bloated and overwhelming,
especially for just one person thing.
The author basically says
that there's really nothing you can do about it,
and especially for those that
are going to be managers out there
to be patient with maybe your beginners,
your entry-level software engineers
on that second project.
Just be aware that there's
nothing you can do to avoid it is going to
happen and you just have
to be patient as that person goes through it.
It's a fantastic book.
I highly recommend it.
The articles in Canvas,
how to stay curious as a coder.
I think as we get older,
and as maybe programming is fun at first,
and slowly weighs into becoming just work,
there's some things that we can do to stay
curious and keep the passion alive, if you will.
Burnout is a real thing no
matter what industry you're in but especially for
developer burnout and some good articles
on that and how to overcome it.
Then along with that simple but
effective mental health routines for programmers.
Those are some good articles I recommend.
Some inspirational quotes. "Follow your passion.
Once you find it, put your mind to it,
and all your endeavor is to make sure that
your passion and dream can become accomplished."
One of my favorite quotes by Henry Ford,
"Whether you think you can or
you think you can't, you are right."
I think that couples in with
our earlier discussion in
the first part with the impostor syndrome.
It's all about mindset and then Danny Trejo,
I've met him a few times and this is
a quote he gave in a panel that said,
"I'd rather aim for the moon and miss than aim for
the gutter and make it."
Danny's just an awesome guy.
He has quite the story of where he went from
being an ex-con to a famous celebrity and his mission.
He's got a really good life mission
that he does and have a lot of respect for him.
Well, this is the end.
Bittersweet. Thank you.
It has been an awesome course.
I've really enjoyed getting to know
you through the weeks that we've had.
The final exam is now available and ready.
We've got the individual project coming
up. Then course feedback.
I really enjoy course feedback.
If you have especially any ideas
or suggestions on personally,
how I can improve the course.
I offer a little bit of incentive motivation.
If you will submit course feedback
and if it's not open yet,
it'll be open soon but the incentive is that I'll
give some extra credit
in exchange for the course feedback,
so hopefully that helps motivate things there.
Then I get asked quite a bit about where do
I go from here.
Just a few ideas.
There are a lot of local Python
users groups across the state.
If you're not in the state of Utah,
I'm sure there's some user groups in your area.
In the state of Utah, We've got Provo,
there's one in the Salt Lake area,
there's one further up North in the Logan area.
If I remember correctly.
Community involvement, and then
Python boot camp is either good resources.
There's a Coursera for these micro educational things.
Coursera, and Udemy,
Coursera generally has a lot
of free courses you can take.
Then by the way, you can take a certification exam,
of what you've gone through through
Python with this course,
you should now be prepped to do
at least the basic Python certification exam.
The IS department will reimburse you,
I don't recall the exact dollar amount
but one thing of
caution is that there is a dollar amount,
let's just say it's $150 but they'll only reimburse
one time so if there's other certifications
that you're looking at taking while you're at the U.
Just be mindful of that they will only reimburse
one certification or up to
that dollar amount if that's of interest,
and if there is interest, I
can give you more information on that.
That's it and thank you very much.