Sunday, May 31, 2015

What to start with?

So, what is that something that one should begin with?
There are plenty of "XXX for dummies / for total beginners " etc books.
Personally I started with Bash Scripting.
In particular, a friend of mine made me a gift  two video courses on Unix Shell Fundamentals and Unix Shell Scripting Advanced and these are the best video courses I've ever watched in my lifetime.
The first one explains the basic commands of Unix Shell, like ls, grep, tail, the structure of Unix-like systems (Linux, MacOS, Android), and other extremely useful things.
The other one explains how to actually make working programs (scripts) built of such simple Unix commands, in other words - you learn to program in one of the simplest and limited programming languages.
The author is Mark Virtue and the guy is an extremely talented teacher.
Why was this useful for me?
This allowed me to switch from a regular QA engineer to an Automation engineer, i. e. to a more interesting and higher paid job.


Try it.
You'll like it.

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