SUPERIOR KNOWLEDGE ALWAYS GIVES YOU A COMPETITIVE EDGE Dan. 1:17-20.

Beloved brethren, as we prepare for Year 2021, the following compiled websites could be beneficial to you and your wards. Knowledge is power. These are days that we all must KNOW and understand how things work.

For our children, they have to stand above the competitive edge of peers.

Kindly share with those who stand to benefit from it; those who are interested in self development and enhancement.

Happy New Year!

Top 10 Sites for your career

1. Linkedin

2. Indeed

3. Naukri

4. Monster

5. JobBait

6. Careercloud

7. Dice

8. CareerBuilder

9. Jibberjobber

10. Glassdoor

10 Tech Skills now in demand

1. Machine Learning

2. Mobile Development

3. SEO/SEM Marketing

4. Data Visualization

5. Data Engineering

6. UI/UX Design

7. Cyber-security

8. Cloud Computing/AWS

9. Blockchain

10. IOT

11 Sites for Free Online Technical and University-level Education

1. Coursera

2. edX

3. Khan Academy

4. Udemy

5. iTunesU Free Courses

6. MIT OpenCourseWare

7. Stanford Online

8. Codecademy

9. ict iitr

10 ict iitk

11 NPTEL

10 Sites to learn Microsoft Excel for free

1. Microsoft Excel Help Center

2. Excel Exposure

3. Chandoo

4. Excel Central

5. Contextures

6. Excel Hero b.

7. Mr. Excel

8. Improve Your Excel

9. Excel Easy

10. Excel Jet

10 Sites to review your resume for free

1. Zety Resume Builder

2. Resumonk

3. Resume dot com

4. VisualCV

5. Cvmaker

6. ResumUP

7. Resume Genius

8. Resumebuilder

9. Resume Baking

10. Enhancy

10 Sites for Interview Preparation

1. Ambitionbox

2. AceThelnterview

3. Geeksforgeeks

4. Leetcode

5. Gainlo

6. Careercup

7. Codercareer

8. InterviewUp

9. InterviewBest

10. Indiabix

Please pass this on to your graduate friends, undergraduates, children, and youth groups.

CYBERGATE wishes you a fulfilling and a prosperous year ahead

THIS IS ALL YOU NEED TO BECOME A WEB DEVELOPER TODAY (2021)

Hello, welcome to today’s edition on ICT related topics and programming in general. This article is geared towards inspiring new programmers out there who just got into the industry and wishes to make a career out of it. In addition, most of the ideas here are of a personal opinion and not in anyway a criteria for anything whatsoever. And of course, we are all in titled to our various opinions. Lets join right in and consider the things you need to know in order to become a web developer this 2021.

Maybe you are out there and wishing to become a developer but considering the roadmap and all it would take you to achieve this becomes very tedious and overwhelming. Well, my arm in this article is to simplify the roadmap for you so that you can start immediately to achieving that dream of being a programmer or perhaps, you know someone who needs this article, kindly share it with them so that they can get direction and also be motivated to do so.

So what are the minimum requirements? Well, you have to know HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Those are the minimum requirement. Did you know, you can even get a job, by just knowing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript very well. You can also build responsive, interactive front-end applications without any framework, by just mastering these minimum requirements very well.

The mistake that most young developers do is to first start by learning frameworks before having a grasp on the actual language itself. And that’s very wrong.

Infact, even with just HTML and CSS, and by understanding the HTML5 Semantic tags, CSS flexbox, grid system, animations, transform, pseudo elements and classes, filters, and even media query, one can still do pretty amazing designs that are very responsive too. Although, I will strongly recommend learning JavaScript and in doing that consider learning the newer ES6 modern JavaScript like Arrow-function, Promises, Async/Await , Destructing, Classes, Higher Order Array Methods and Functions. Also learn how to fetch data from an external source using the Fetch API or AXIOS. Another thing you need to understand is JSON and AJAX, sending data back and forth through your application. And ofcourse, you can check out our website and/or YouTube channel for free courses/tutorials to help you out on that.

Now the best advice I can give you here is “BUILD THINGS”. Just learning and studying these materials isn’t gonna help you out. Create your portfolio website and add projects to it. Create an idea on your own and build it. When you get stock, debug using debugging tools or google search engine. Google is a developers best friend. These can really be a great way for you to master your skills as a programmer and also to improve on your problem solving skills. And ofcourse, you will also need to make friends who are programmers as well. There are a lot of online platforms where you can meet a lot of people in the same industry. Start conversation with them and share your ideas and taught. Before you know it, you might have more interest in programming than you earlier thought you could.

Now, even if you get want to be a back-end developer, you will still need to learn HTML and CSS. Because for the most part, they are the building blocks of the web. Secondly, because in working on the back-end, you will still need to connect to the front-end inorder to send or retrieve data from the UI(user-interface).

Again, you dont just jump into any language and start learning, choose a language that is relevant in your region. Don’t just pick any language because of its popularity or paycheck globally, but consider the companies you might work for if you learn the language and the worth of the language in your local environment, unless ofcourse you are planning to migrate to a different location, then consider that location instead. And you don’t have to worry about picking the wrong language because once you have learnt your first language, its much earlier to learn a second one. Most programming language have a lot of similarities.

Where to find jobs online:

• Linkedin
• Upwork
• Twitter
• GitHub
• JobBait
• Careercloud
• StackOverFlow
• CareerBuilder
• Jibberjobber
• Glassdoor

When to start applying for jobs:

    Well, as soon as your are comfortable with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Just start applying because you definitely need to start somewhere and besides, there is always a first time for everything. Even if you did not meet the requirements, or maybe you cannot check off all the demands of the company/client, still apply. Guess what? “No one really meets all those requirements, a company never finds someone who meets all their requirements, it never just happens, right?.” but if you do, it means you are applying for the wrong job then you should go for something higher than what you are applying for because then, it will mean you have out-grown that one. Para-venture you didn’t get thee job, you would have known your mistakes and also have the experience of going through a job interview. So put your head up and apply for another and another and another, until you get what you want.

Nevertheless, there are atleast nine other ways you can make money as a developer, apart from going into Professional Development. They include:

1. Freelancing
2. Blogging
3. YouTube
4. Live Coding
5. 1-On-1 Mentoring
6. Creating Courses
7. Digital Products
8. Open Source
9. Creating a SaaS (Software as a Service) ...

Make sure to check out other articles on our blog and our website ; also on our YouTube channel to learn more on this topics. Always remember that you are good enough, keep practicing, keep pushing and never give up. 

Till next edition, HaPpY CODinG...

20+ REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD USE TELEGRAM IN 2022

Over the last 7 years, Telegram has protected the private data of people all over the world and redefined what a messaging app can do. Here are some of our features:

• Editing messages 

• Sending documents and videos up to 2GB

• Deleting messages without a trace

• Native desktop and tablet apps

• Multiple accounts and Chat folders

• Usernames instead of phone numbers

• Granular privacy settings

• Group chats of up to 200,000 members

• Admin tools and stats for group owners

• Voice Chats for up to 5,000 participants

• 20,000+ high-quality Animated stickers

• Custom Color Themes like Retro

• Video messages 

• One-to-many channels

• Video editing tools

• API and Bot platform for developers

• Programmed emoji 🎯🎳⚽️🏀🎲🎰

• Disappearing photos or videos

• Self-Destructing end-to-end encrypted Chats

• Partial selection for messages

• Scheduled and silent messages

• Pinned messages and polls

• Persistent chat history

• Saved Messages and Drafts 

• Encrypted Voice and Video Calls

We at CYBERGATE believe in the new possibilities that TELEGRAM has to offer in the nearest future. And if you are a software developer, you should probably be using it already alongside with Twitter and LinkedIn. 

Telegram is not a scam app, or a scam tool as many think it is. Telegram came to fix some loopholes that WhatsApp and some other messaging apps couldn't. And its gaining a lot of popularity really very fast. More than 25million new subscribers over the past few months. Although, you should also watch out for fake accounts and fake people, but its really a nice app to consider trying out.

If you wish to know more about Telegram and how well you can utilize its features, make sure to checkout our blog and be sure to subscribe to our channel to get helpful tips and updates on related ICT topics just as this one.

Thanks for staying with us. Till next time; HaPpY CODing...

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