Getting tech skills is not straightforward. Tech (information technology) is a relatively young industry, so it’s sometimes difficult for people to navigate all the complexities of its concepts.
This guide will help you become curious about tech enough to investigate, learn, and ultimately gain value from it.
The guide is divided into steps, each building on the previous to help solidify what you learn. After some months, you may have gained enough knowledge to no longer need this guide.
I am Emmanuel Awotunde. I’m a software engineer who has sort of been navigating this tech thing since 2015 so I have a bit of experience. I wrote this guide as a sort of one-size-fits-all answer to the question I often get: ‘How do I join tech?’. I frankly cannot remember or replay how tech was for me back in 2015, but I made this guide into something I’d likely advise myself back in the day.
Of course, this guide isn’t perfect, so it will be a living guide (meaning I’d update it as I learn more and get feedback). If you’d like to contact me for questions or contribute to this guide, I’m reachable at [email protected].
Shamelessly plugging my podcast here: https://anchor.fm/insidethetechosystem. But, for real, it’s a nice place to learn about tech during an evening walk.
This is not a regular article or guide that you can read once and move on. Well, you can do that, but you’re likely not going to benefit much from doing so. You’ll have to read the guide gradually, and you’d need to come back time after time to track your progress over the weeks/months/years.
This guide contains a lot of information, which may feel overwhelming. One way to reduce this feeling is to read the guide in small bits so that you have time to expand on the different areas and concepts that the guide will introduce to you. You should not try to read the whole thing at once. You can take a glance at it, but don’t attempt to digest everything at once; it might discourage you.
⏱ About a week or two
You want to satisfy your most urgent curiosity. You have to be furiously aggressive if you really want to get your questions answered. The questions here are for you to do your own research and find out stuff. You should have more questions but the questions will give you a starting point. I have put links and some answers to the questions but you can go further to find more things online. In researching and finding answers to these questions, you get to learn other things on the way.