Module 10 Part 5 - Conclusion

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.