Courses selected.

 

I have selected two initial courses for improving my Python and Kubernetes skills.

"Kubernetes Certified Application Developer (CKAD) with Tests" by KodeKloud, Mumshad Mannambeth - Did this two plus years ago on UDemy and found it generally good with good labs to validate skills. There is also an admin course as well that I might try once I complete this one. Unlikely right now that I will take the certification exam ( even though I would like to do so) as the requirements for a room/space to do the exam seems difficult and I don't see a testing center option.  I need to check and see if there is a proctor space at a city college that will work but looking online on social media suggests lots of folks have issues with the online test proctors and so it would be a waste of money to sign up for test if you just fail it for issues with finding a space that meets their fairly stringent requirements and not on technical merit.

I read "Python Crash Course" a couple of months back. Generally liked it and thought it was a good introduction to the language.  I have done Python on and off as part of my devops work for years, mostly to glue bits together or script some Google Cloud API to manage resources, but not much formal application Python. I selected another UDemy course "100 of Code: The Complete Python Pro Bootcamp" by Angela Yu because it looks to focus on building lots of practice examples and some projects to reinforce the learning. 

Trying to do a LeetCode problem each day, just to practice and get exposure to these kinds of interview questions. Trying these in C# right now to practice as I was learning C# prior to my layoff to help the team I was supporting with development tasks such as building examples.  I might switch to Python but I generally like the everything and the kitchen sink approach in C# as a language and it is mostly cross platform.  There is a lot to learn in C# and LeetCode questions probably won't help much in getting further depth there.