Be willing to skip around when learning things if you can. Learn what interests you first if you can. You’ll gain momentum and it will get easier. I was completely self-taught before I changed careers. I got lucky in that I changed careers in 2000; the best time in recent history to get into IT.
Skip the fucking OSI Model if you can. Learn it later. It won’t click until you know what a hub, switch, router, etc. actually do. It always bothered me that they put it at the start of the book when it should be at the end.
We all start somewhere. I remember that Commodore 64 and being up all night, mostly trying to figure out how to format a floppy disk. I remember buying a home networking kit; basically a hub, two network cards, and cabling. The damn thing wouldn’t work. Learned that coiled up unshielded networking cable doesn’t work.
Be willing to skip around when learning things if you can. Learn what interests you first if you can. You’ll gain momentum and it will get easier. I was completely self-taught before I changed careers. I got lucky in that I changed careers in 2000; the best time in recent history to get into IT.
Skip the fucking OSI Model if you can. Learn it later. It won’t click until you know what a hub, switch, router, etc. actually do. It always bothered me that they put it at the start of the book when it should be at the end.
We all start somewhere. I remember that Commodore 64 and being up all night, mostly trying to figure out how to format a floppy disk. I remember buying a home networking kit; basically a hub with two network cards. The damn thing wouldn’t work. Learned that coiled up unshielded networking cable doesn’t work.
Be willing to skip around when learning things if you can. Learn what interests you first if you can. You’ll gain momentum and it will get easier. I was completely self-taught before I changed careers. I got lucky in that I changed careers in 2000; the best time in recent history to get into IT.
Skip the fucking OSI Model if you can. Learn it later. It won’t click until you know what a hub, switch, router, etc. actually do. It always bothered me that they put it at the start of the book when it should be at the end.