Log of what of Matthew Roy has learned at Techie Youth

This is what I have learned today at Techie Youth as of 8/19/2022.

• Spent my final day at techie youth Doing coding exercises/games such as Ozaria, Starwars Galaxy with code, Code Combat, and Girls who code by trinket.
• Learned Java in a basic scope due to watching the Java Tutorial for Beginners.
• Learned how to get started in PHP from watching part of the PHP language tutorial course.

This is what I have learned today at Techie Youth as of 8/18/2022.

• Learned how to get started with google analytics, its use cases, and how to impliment it onto my website.
• How to set up IDE's for coding and why they are better to use than traditional text editors.
• What the most popular coding languages were used for the most popular websites.
• Learned the basics of programming using javascript.
• Learned the basics of NodeJS
• Learned a bit of Python programming.

This is what I have learned today at Techie Youth as of 8/17/2022.

• Learned how to fully take advantage of wordpress features that could be turned into a functional webpage.
• Learned about SQL, whats its used for, and the many functions it can do.
• Learned about an alternative to SQL called MongoDB, and what differneces it has compared to SQL.
• Learned how to get more clients if I wanted to persue a buisiness of web desigining. Also learned how to do this even if I have no portfolio.

This is what I have learned today at Techie Youth as of 8/16/2022.

• Learned the numorus roles of work there is to web development which are:

*Frontend Web Dev

*Backend Web Dev

*Data ARchitect

*System Adiminstrator

*Quality Assurance Engineer

*Devops

*Product Managers

*CTO

• Learned how to get my website online, either by services such as AWS or DIY it using various operating systems.
• Learned version control using SVN and Git
• Begun learning about wordpress and how easy it is to make a site with it.

This is what I have learned today as of 8/15/2022.

• Learned the fundamentals of Web development, including creating a blank webpage, buttons, adding text, images, and styling with CSS.
• Discovered a web developer that is self taught and makes over 60,000 a year remote.
• Learned to use flexbox to create webpages that dynamically scales to different sized displays.

This is what I have learned today as of 8/12/2022.

• Learned how to design clothing fashion items and wearable tech
• Learned that techie youth has ways to create garments such as shirts, and how I would be able to print designs on those shirts.
• How I could theoretically start with 0 dollars and work my way up to a clothing line.
• How I could print 3d printed objects without owning a 3D printer.
• How to properly price a product using a scientific method in 3 steps.
• How to sell on Ebay or Etsy.

This is what I have learned today as of 8/11/2022.

• Watched the complete Gimp 2.10 overview tutorial. In the tutorial, I learned important Image editing/manipulation tools including the forground select tool, paths tool, zoom tool, Unified transform tool, Gradient tool, and more.
• Learned how to paint in krita and also learned the tools to do so.
• Learned how to turn a pencil sketch to a digital painting using layer masking.
• Learned how to use paint.net to create very simple edits and drawings.

This is what I have learned today as of 8/10/2022.

• Learned how to Retrofit old eletronic parts into new gear that would otherwise be E-Waste.
• Learned how to build an exhaust fan for cheap soldering, and also which parts are good for reusing if I were to build eletronic devices.
• How to retrofit eletroic devices to serve as an entirely different purpose than they were designed to do, such as making a laser engraver out of a DVD Player's laser.
• Started Inkscape tutorials for Digital art.
• Started Gimp tutorials for Digital art.
• Started Krita tutorials for Digital art.

This is what I have learned today as of 8/9/2022.

• Learned how to use LibreCAD as a FOSS version of AutoCAD with alot of the features and uses avalible to it.
• Learned how to use CorelDRAW as an alternative to both Inkscape and AutoCAD, and learned how to use it for laser and Vinyl Cutting.
• Started the Robotic Products section, and learned of different projects that are avalible to make.
• Learned about the arduino software and how to program for it.

Today markes exactly one month since I begun Techie Youth, and i have learned so much throughout this program and thankful to be in it! Im sure these notes will be good ways to look back onto what I did.

This is what I learned today at techie youth as of 8/8/2022.

• Found out different places where you can 3D print designs in person such as MakerSpace NYC.
• Started to learn the basics of Inkscape and how to design logos in it, and even send that design in to be laser printed. In addition to inkscape, I also learned how to do this using AutoCAD.

Also I had to rewatch the Illustrator tutorial, because when I saw the illustrator section in another unit, it is shown as incomplete. I got the checkmark next to it, but now the usage says that I have been inactive for over 3 hours, when I clearly was not. I was just watching the video... so hopefully that does not cause any confustion.

Before I say what I learned from the lessons, I would say a general thing I learned while using techie youth is to not change tabs while watching a long video, or else it will say that you ended the video too early, and no credit is given for you watching. This happened while watching the 3 hour adobe illustrator tutorial, and the reason I changed tabs was to click the "Yes I am still here" button on techie youth to show that I am still watching the video. Even though the usage page says that I watched the tutorial for an hour and spent the other hour on the techie youth home page I was really watching the video the full ways through.

This is what I have learned at Techie Youth today as of 8/5/2022.

• Learned how having a 3D printer can be used to print other peoples designs and ship it to the client for cash using platforms like makexyz.com.
• Watched the entirety of the Adobe Illustrator for Beginners course, the main takeaway being how adobe illustrator works, capabilities, and also how the vector designes can be scaled easily, and is also great for branding.
• Learned about laser design services which ships laser cuttings for products.

This is what I have learned today at Techie Youth as of 8/4/2022.

• Finished the AutoCAD 2020 3D basics tutorials, attempted to try out the program, but the link to the website was dead so I did not try out the program.
• Completed watching solid works tutorials and tinkered around in it.
• Learned how to upload CAD files or other 3D program files like .blend to various services such as Treatstock or Craftcloud, and they will manufacture it and ship it to your home or buisiness location.

This is what I have learned today at Techie Youth as of 8/3/2022.

• Continued learning about blender, this time with its edit mode commands. After that, I used what I learned and used blender.
• Learned Meshmixer and its sculpting tools, how it can edit meshes to create textures for an object, and then used it for a little bit.
• Got started using AutoCAD, and learned the basics of the program and also its workflow to create 3D objects with percision. I do not like how expensive the program is, mainly due to me being a beginner and not a professional engineer thus blender's free and open source code philosophy makes me more inclined to learn about that more than autocad or meshmixer.

These are the things that I learned today at Techie Youth as of 8/2/2022.

Finished Tinkercad tutorial with part 6, which taught me importing and exporting, as well as collaborating with others with their projects using tinkercad.

• Begun the blender tutorial lessons, learned how to navigate its user interface, move objects, camera, and light source. How to rotate and scale objects, transform objects to new shapes, edit mode and object modifiers that can turn an object into different surfaces such as metal.

These are the things that I learned today at Techie Youth as of 8/1/2022.

Started the Custom Crafts section of the course, and learned the following so far:

• Learned about the different things possible using an Arduino (in the case I saw from a link, wearables that can be used as a cosplay item to potential medical help devices.

• What to plan for in a project and the steps to get it selling

• The possibility of getting an idea, using a 3d printer to "print" that idea into real world objects.

• Begun learning about using tinkercad such as

*The user interface and moving around in its 3 dimensional space.

*Using shapes, and manipulating them into custom shapes for a design. Manipulation such as "cutting" a piece of the object off to delete a certain area of the shape, extending a part of the shape to give it more elevation in the final product, rotating not only a shape, but also the camera you view the space in.

*Aligining the shapes to ensure to keeping them straight, and also percise to how it will look when you print out the object in mind.

• Began tinkering in tinkercad, will do more tommorow.

These are the things that I learned today at Techie Youth as of 7/29/2022.

• Learned how to get sales, clients, buyers, and contracts using the following techniques:

*Psychological and interhuman tactics to persuade the person of interest to your business instead of the competitions

*Using silence to get an advantage in negotiations with a client

*The key factors to successful marketing

*How to create a concise pitch for your business and improve your sales figures.

*Inventory purchasing and the best ways to maximize profits when buying inventory

*Last but not least, getting the maximum profit earned from selling a product

• Learned some of the best practices for hiring a team of employees for a business.
• Subsequently, learned the best practices to fire employees.

This is what I have learned today at Techie Youth as of 7/28/2022

• Learned how to write an executive summary, and how to make it stand out.
• Renting a private commercial space for a buisiness.
• Ways that entrepenures get funding for their venture startup.
• Learned why startup pitches get rejected so often
• What is a Minimum viable product (MVP) and steps to creating an MVP.

This is what I have learned today at Techie Youth as of 7/27/2022.

• Learned the basics of starting up a new buisness .
• How to setup business entity formalities.
• How to apply for an Employer Identification Number (EIN).
• Avoiding trademark infringement when choosing a domain name.
• Learn to create sogans for a buisiness.
• Logo design, and key areas to focus on to create effective branding.
• How to use wix builder to build a website without the need of programming knowledge.

This is what I have learned today as of 7/26/2022 at Techie Youth learn to e-earn.

• According to Slidebean, you need three founders that are a hipster, hacker, and hustler to have a successful startup, and it worked for them.
• Watched the entire corse on how to speak, which taught me the principals of speaking properly, and the usefulness of that in the real world. Some of which I did not know before watching.
• Learned the traits to become a successful leader.
• The qualities to become a successful leader
• DIfferences between hard and soft skills (as it turns out, there is alot of differences between the two).
• Watched real day in the lives videos on tech startup entrepenures.

This is what I have learned today as of 7/25/2022

• What Enterpenuriship is
• Buisness Models, and how to develop on it
• What a profit model is, the types, models, and how to make money off them.
• How to identify a target market
• Value Proposition and consumer segments, including examples of companies that did it correctly.
• Learned about exit statagies and when to properly enact on one.
• Contengency Plans, learning to channel negative thinking for the sake of enterpenuriship.
• When to partner with someone, and the traits to look out for in a potential partnership.

This is what I have learned today at Techie Youth as of Friday, 7/22/2022.

• Learned the fundamentals of Enteprenurship

• Learned who is an entrepreneur, and the responsibilites needed to become one.

• It is important to not get highly attatched to a buisness you own, as at anypoint it can go bust. However the faster a dying buisness dies, the more tine you get to plan and purchase another buisness.

• First steps learned on starting up a new startup venture.

• Realized the correct first steps to take when starting up a new buisiness.

This is what I have learned today, Thursday 7/21/2022

• Learned how to properly use Zoom
• Read all the different excerpts from the book "Dont Send A Resume", teaching me all about what a resume should represent to employers, and also the risks there is if you word it incorrectly.
• Interviewer Questions, and how I should answer them

Today is mainly to finish up the prerequisites apart from remaining videos and quizzes. Hopefully after tommorow, I should be completed with the prerequisite units and move on next week.

This is what I have learned today at techie youth on 7/20/2022.

• Learned about all sorts of payment processors including Square, which has an accessory that allows customers to simply swipe a credit card using an adapter built for a phones headphone jack.

• Also learned how square has different solutions to different kinds of buisnesses, big or small.

• Learned alot about cryptocurrency, and how it fundamentally works as well as some ideologies that the crypto community states such as not storing your crypto anywhere else except your own wallet.

Here is what I have learned as of today (7/19/2022).

• Got new insight at the possibility of travelling the world and making revenue by being a travel blog/vlogger.

• Learned ways to cut costs down on travelling, which includes some desperate things such as asking hotel staff if they have a "free room".

• Learned that a Kanban board is a way to visualize, organanize, and schedule work into sprint intervals and setting clear short term goals.

• Figured out how to spend money properly and be able to maximize how productive and efficient my work schedule is.

• Automation such as a dishwasher is great because it can be ran while you work on something else.

This is what I have learned today at Techie Youth today on 7/18/2022.

• It is important to remember a mentor is not an end all be all to a career, but it is an important role.

Mentors can:

• Gain a different perspective and get challenged based on mentor experience.

• Receive encouragement, motivation and help to set and achieve goals.

• Improve your professional outlook and attitude.

• Learn to think critically and challenge your assumptions.

• Enhance your career and professional development.

• Overcome obstacles and learn to navigate common pitfalls.

• Learned how to edit photos using VSCO and post them to instagram

This is what I have learned today at Techie Youth today on 7/15/2022.

*A big footnote for this day is that I have (for the most part) completed the first section in the prerequisite cirriculum! There remains one more section in the prerequisite to complete to lead me to entrenuraship section, and then anything I feel like learning.

• Aware of how scams are initiated, as well as how to avoid scams such as phishing links in emails.

• Know where to report scams if I encounter one (Better Business Bureau website and US federal trade commission report system).

• Learned some helpful tips about networking as well as networking that you should never do like only networking when you need help with something.

• For most situations, all you need to get your health and wellbeing increased is free habits to do such as moving around, sleeping later, hydrating, and even meditating.

• Learned Carbohydrates releases serotonin that makes the mind "feel good", meat and poultry are high in protien and release dopamine, and fast foods and deepfried foods leave you feeling down and might make you skip meals.

• Found out ways to stay motivated, even when it can be difficult to do so.

• Learned techniques that can be used to present myself as a leader when the time comes when I become one.

This is what I have learned today at techie youth on 7/14/2022.

• In a nutshell, I learned about anything I need when starting and also working a remote job. This includes communication skills such as using zoom and slack for messaging and video meetings. Including productivity habits to utilize like learning to schedule. Also I learned the benefits to having a paperless office, not worrying having any papers around.

• Learned how I can build rapport with colleges while working remotely. For example, the person in the video told his collegue about doing pushups since it is their common interest, and they bonded over that experience more than when they worked.

• All about the onboarding process and how new recruits (such as myself) will be handled at the time they are hired.

• 1 in 4 people according to airtasker said commuting has lead the employees to quit their job.

• Learned how to use Slack and what Group Email is.

• Learned the techniques used by unprolific supervisors and how I am able to handle such situations if I am encountered by one.

Here are some of the things I have learned today while working at techie youth.

• Learned about the STAR (Situation, Task, Action, Result) when telling employers about a time in the past when you used a skill.
• Tried doing a mock interview using the video provided and learned alot about things such as the tone of voice to use and condensing information even further than I thought was short.
• Learned to utilize tips such as being an active listener, setting a professional voicemail, and even smiling to improve your tone of voice

This is what I have learned at Techie Youth today on 7/12/2022.

• Learned six ways on how to make a great linked in profile. Of those includes taking a good and also specific photo for linked in, creating a summary that tells employers what you can do for them, and also encourage me to seek out reccomendations to add.
• Your resume has only about six seconds to make an impact or to be discarded for another canidate
• 80 percent of employers search your name through Google before they even look at your resume.
• Searched up my name through google and bing and found the top search is a ice hockey player from los angeles
• Learned and also browsed for different remote job opportunities on various platforms I have never even heard of before.

In addition, I have created a Linked In account, Cover Letter, and uploaded my resume to this site.

This is what I learned today when I was working on the Techie youth program today. I mostly went down the quality of life rabbit hole, since I was brought to it after clicking a link while working on one of the introduction units.

• Net income is the gross income you make after taxes, and other company expenses are taken out of it.

• Using the "cost of living estimator" in the quality of life section, I found out that Richmond, Virginia is 63% less expensive than New York.

• There are many ways to negotiate, some are moral and some are immoral (such as telling the seller you only want a "fair" price, implying that their price is unreasonable to you).

• When negotiating, whoever says the "first number" always loses

• Lifestyle Inflation is when you want to increase how you live in proportion to the amount of money you make. It is generally advised to live what you are comftorable with when you were making the least amount of money.

• Time is irreplaceable, and there is no way to change what you did in the past of your time, as it is scientifically impossible.

• I learned about some of the negative sides of doing remote work. Primarally the loss of social events you get in the office like chatting by the water dispenser and gatherings.

Today was the delayed start to my Techie Youth journey, due to me being on vacation for the first two days of the program. I watched the prequisite introduction videos, as well as some of the opening lessons. I made it up to lession 4, and during that, I learned the following:

• Learned the basics of techie youth and how the program is setup.
• Items such as a depreciated luxury car can be technically had for the same price as an brand new normal car.
• Health is something that cannot be bought or rarely be resolved with money.
• Techie youth is based in New York City, and has been teaching in classrooms since 2015.