Computer Learnin’s: April 2018

I’ve fallen behind on tracking my computer learning! But we’re back and better than ever, mostly in a dash to absorb as much knowledge as I can before an upcoming technical interview. Because of that, some of the infosec stuff is taking a backseat to brushing up on general coding skills and learning the tools of the team(s) I’ll be interviewing with.

09 April 2017

  • Studied Cracking the Coding Interview for like two hours. (I picked this one up last Thursday at the recommendation of the recruiter I’ve been talking to.) Got through the O-notation section, where I learned about some things that’ll trip me up and I need to review. (I got 9/12 right on the chapter-end quiz questions, though, so I’m feeling at least semi-competent if hardly amazing.) I’m now onto general interviewing strategies, and it looks like there’s a few things that’ll be handy to review and memorize. Like hash tables. Aka that thing I barely covered in undergrad. I suppose it’s never too late to learn!
  • Started training up on Google Compute Engine and Kubernetes (aka Google Container Engine). It was interesting manually deploying things in GCE and then using Kubernetes and seeing just how much faster it can go. It’s going to take me a bit to get a hang of the console commands, though. They’re pretty verbose, but I suppose that’s the downside of having one web-UI console that access everything in their container/cluster services. Excited to learn more, hope to finish the tutorial-thing I’m on by the end of tomorrow.
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