Hi There!

Nellie21

My name is Marie I am a student and I joined here a few weeks ago. Really looking forward to learning so great things from you all, the open discussions, and possibly meeting new people in my area!!

UnixGuy

Welcome to the forums Nellie!

What do you study and what are you areas of interest in IT? you will find a lot of help in here

Johnhe0414

Hello and Welcome!

SteveLavoie

Welcome aboard!

Which area are you from?

Nellie21

I am from Palm Bay Florida 

Nellie21

Johnhe0414 Thank you!

Nellie21

UnixGuy Thank you! I am studying CompTia A+. My main goal is to work my way up to Cyber. That's been my interest for years! I am glad to be getting help here. Sometimes I feel as though it's a lot to take in..... I really pray i pass my exams.. was it hard for any of you here? 

UnixGuy

@Nellie21 Good luck! I didn't take the A+ but I took the Secuity+,

I did a quick video on how to get into cyber security, have a look at it!

hope it helps! Plenty of help around this topic here

SteveLavoie

Sure certification is a nice way to get into cyber security, but dont forget other ressource as TryHackMe. 

powerfool

I didn't do the A+ certification until I was 20 years into IT... and I only took it because I was offered a position to teach at a community college and they required the certification for instructors to be able to teach the requisite courses.  I have looked at the materials in the past and I have to say that while much of what they have eliminated from the course isn't necessary, it is highly valuable.  When I teach it, I love to cover it a layer or two deeper than what is required for the exam.  If you can understand it at that level, the exam will be no problem.

I would recommend to anyone that wants a deeper understanding to check out one or both of these books:

* Code, by Charles Petzlold (Microsoft Press, 2000)
* The Elements of Computing Systems, by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken (MIT Press, 2008)

Each of these books covers computing far deeper than you're going to get anywhere outside of a rigorous Computer Engineering program.  The main differences are that the Nisan and Schocken book starts with a NAND gate (all other logic gates can be built from NAND) and works you up to building integrated circuits, CPU/Memory, then assembler, an OS, and an Object Oriented language.  The Petzold book is like a prequel to that  in that it starts with electricity and relays, but continues up the stack from there (with a little less practical usage of later topics, just touching them each at a high level).

Choosing either or both are great for REALLY understanding what is happening.

E Double U

Welcome!