Recent mature grad, went back to Uni after packing up my eCommerce business I started as a young man. Finally finished and actually struggling to find work, even though my CV rocks and I know I could do the role of most of the companies CEO's that I've applied for. I've even been told this by a director.

I'm not dumb, I'm very committed to growing businesses and I'm actually surprised at how much ageism exists. I just need to pay my rent while I start a business but not many people like hearing that. Feel free to reach out if you think you can actually help, I'd be open to meeting in person too. Happy to exchange LinkedIn messages to see if I could help your business operate more efficiently.

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Thanks for the BAR link, I'm going to share that with someone who'll find it useful. Appreciated!

Alright so I'm going to say it: Make a local install please I'm begging you. As a 1-man consultant, I really don't want to: 1. Download docker or some other LAMP stack 2. Compile and run it 3. Launch a local database everytime I open it from my laptop 4. Voila! I'm into my locally server DB with a nice fronted.

No thank you. If you want adoption it has to be adoptable, and most open source crms (SuiteCRM, Odoo, ERPNext, Espo, Crust, Corteza, Civi, etc) I've tried them all. I'm now back to running an Excel workbook split into categories taken from a notion template.

Please just make this local :( It's gorgeous!

Interesting feedback! The recommended install is already local (through yarn).

The only piece mentioning docker is to provision a Postgres database, which you need to have to run a CRM anyway. We have planned to replace it by a section explaining how to install Postgres on the different OS. Planned for next week!

I think you need a js engine to run the entire thing which entails shipping that with the product to make it "locally installable". Then you get into complex version dependencies and require support for upgrading and upgrade paths... yarn is pretty straightforward and so are docker containers.

Haven't looked into the technical details of it, but it seems like this should be as simple as slapping it inside of electron to have a fully local and cross platform install.

Yes, that would solve the javascript interpreter aspect, but then you need to provide update services and updaters to customers, logic to update, an installer, support for said installer, testing for breaking changes to updates... It's more complicated than just bundling the code in a static wrapper.

They seem to have a pricing page so if you don’t want to do that then use the hosted one?

Yes! We've setup the pricing page for this launch to avoid disappointing users later on but we're not enforcing pricing at this point.

Thank you spenrose. I've bookmarked one of the articles and I'll read that later this evening. It looks interesting.

Spent a couple of minutes checking out this resource, and I really appreciate the links tsingy! Thank you.

Do you have any other 'intro' links?

Thankyou perrygeo, you're solidifying the advice of many other commentors on here and I appreciate that. Do you have any reccomendations?

No problem kingkongjaff, I've considered CS50x. I noticed that they've produced CS50P which is what I initially started but then I got analysis-paralysis between CS50x or CS50P and never finished.

Which would you reccomend?

Do CS50x.

Then if you want to continue do CS50 web or CS51

Really appreciate this feedback gabelschlager, and I've seen mooc.fi a couple of times mentioned. From the other commentors suggestions, it seems that just trying (and doing) to build something would be beneficial.

>So don't try to become some idealized and maybe non-existent ideal engineer, but just grow yourself with this new skills and do what works for you!

I never considered this, so this is appreciated, and so is the help. I will send you an email for sure.

>You mentioned that you have done some R and Python, and your comment about math seems to suggest that the use of those might have been in data science-y fashion?

Yes, it was and I actually enjoyed it a lot.

Thanks mgomez, I think you're onto something. My only difficulty with this would be the concept of 'you don't know what you don't know.

I just want to second this suggestion.

Pick a small project that you care about.

It has to be something you care about because you will pay attention to whether the results do something meaningful, which is the key to guiding you toward actually learning what you need to learn. For me, this meant making video games. For my friend a physics educator, it might mean generating random quiz questions with meaningful or realistic numbers.

It also has to be simple. For me, I started a long time ago with a text based game where you fight a sequence of monsters by basically rolling dice with tweaks and theme that mattered to me. For my friend, it might be literally randomly generating 3 random numbers and putting them into a pre-written physics problem.

There is always a way to add on to a project you care about, so start super simple and make it work really well (just meaning, to your satisfaction). Then add on another thing and try to integrate it, and so on.

My CS students when I was TAing always learned the most from long term projects that had enough freedom for them to make it fun for themselves. This is in contrast to curated sequences of academic exercises and expository text.

So for example, creating something in pygame could be useful if you enjoy making games but don't necessarily want to be a game developer, just for the education you will receive via the enjoyment you are having making it?

The beauty of starting any arbitrary project. It will SHOW you what you don't know.

Some people love this phase of learning the best because it can be the most exciting part ("I hadn't even heard of topic X this morning but now I know enough to be dangerous"), and some just accept this as the slog that's required to get you up to speed enough to build useful things which is the part they enjoy the most. (I'm the latter.) But either way, that's how all of us start.