Try Hack Me is a website with lots of courses and competitions that can aid you developing skills and this was an introductory course there to cybersecurity.
Month: February 2023
Introduction to SQL
The Datacamp course, offered in collaboration with Masterschool, focuses on SQL, or Structured Query Language. SQL is a fundamental computer language used in building databases, making it an essential skill for anyone looking to work in data management or development fields.
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Introduction to Data Science in Python
This Datacamp course moved me up a level in using programming language Python and allowed me to tackle more complex data, a useful cybersecurity skill.
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Typing Advanced Unit
This is the most advanced unit on Typing.com where I am learning touch-typing skills or my Masterschool Cybersecurity course.
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Typing Advanced Assessment
This is the final assesssment that I did for Typing.com as I learnt to touch-type for Masterschool to enhance my cybersecurity work. 19 words per minute is a reasonable score and with 95% accuracy, it certainly jumped me up a level in being able to write with a computer.
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Masterschool’s Intro to Programming TF101.3
This is the certificate for the third and final part of the Udacity Intro to Programming course I completed as part of my Masterschool cybersecurity studies.
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Object-Oriented Programming in Python
This course at Datacamp moved me up a level in my Python programming skills, using Object-Oriented Programming.
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Writing Functions in Python
This course, done on Datacamp in conjunction with Masterschool introduced me to writing simple code in Python, a step up from the basic level of computer programming.
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Review: Our Man in Havana – by Graham Greene
Graham Greene delivers here a classic espionage novel, fiction, set in Cuba around the time of the revolution, Greene writes in his knowledgeable subject area of expertise a comedy account of a chance vacuum salesman being recruited by Mi6 as their ‘Man in Havana.’ Struggling lone parent Wormold runs a…
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Review: War and Peace – by Leo Tolstoy
‘War and Peace’ needs no introduction. It holds its place in the minds of contemporary society as a literary classic. One cannot pick up a newspaper article on great books without a passing mention of Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece. Like other classical works such as the Bible, I think that their…
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Review: Black Genesis – The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt – by Robert Bauval and Thomas Brophy
I’m a big fan of Robert Bauval’s work. I have been an avid reader of his writing since I first encountered the seminal ‘The Orion Mystery’ several decades ago. He is a deep, intelligent author that tests a reader’s intelligence and as an unorthodox, archaeo-astronomer that revisits and questions mainstream…
View More Review: Black Genesis – The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt – by Robert Bauval and Thomas BrophyTyping Intermediate Unit
Moving on abd up a level, this intermediate unit from typing.com was a bit more complicated but I’m still maintaing good progress and levels of accuracy and speed.
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Typing Intermediate Assessment
This was moving up a level on the typing and I completed the Intermediate Assessment with a decnet score of 15 words per minute with 97% accuracy.
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Typing Beginner Assessment
This was the first assessment I had on the typing course for the Wez G – Four Four Cyber cybersecurity business. . Starting to make progress, a nice 98% accuracy and 12WPM.
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Typing Beginner Unit
Learning about #cybersecurity on the Masterschool course, requires us to be able to use computers as effectively as possible and one skill that coders need to be adept at, seems simple and obvious, but can’t really be taken for granted. At Typing.com we were enrolled and signed up to do…
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