1 00:00:00,300 --> 00:00:01,290 Hey, everybody. 2 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:03,960 Welcome to your Gtlm course. 3 00:00:04,260 --> 00:00:12,240 Now, as part of being a Gtlm student, you get to have a couple of nice freebies, a little bonus, 4 00:00:12,270 --> 00:00:16,390 a little extras that all the students that are part of Gtlm get. 5 00:00:16,410 --> 00:00:20,340 Let me show you some of the extra things you get as part of this course. 6 00:00:20,370 --> 00:00:27,780 First off, we already talked about it, but we have a pretty big community of tech enthusiasts learners, 7 00:00:27,780 --> 00:00:30,840 so we have a ton of coding challenges. 8 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:37,290 If you go to our website and go to the community tab, we have coding challenges that you can practice 9 00:00:37,290 --> 00:00:38,240 some skills with. 10 00:00:38,250 --> 00:00:43,560 We have open source projects that are open to anybody that anybody can participate. 11 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:44,970 That's part of Gtlm. 12 00:00:45,270 --> 00:00:52,500 We have our discourse server, we have campus events, which is like a live virtual classroom that you 13 00:00:52,500 --> 00:00:54,420 get to meet other students and talk to them. 14 00:00:54,420 --> 00:00:59,830 And we also have events like Advent of Code or Octoberfest throughout the year. 15 00:00:59,830 --> 00:01:01,730 We also have cheat sheets. 16 00:01:01,740 --> 00:01:03,570 Now these are all free. 17 00:01:03,570 --> 00:01:05,280 None of this requires any sign up. 18 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:10,410 You can just open up a cheat sheet that is related to your course that you want to check out. 19 00:01:10,410 --> 00:01:12,330 Let's say we want to check out the JavaScript one. 20 00:01:12,330 --> 00:01:19,680 Well, you can actually go through the cheat sheet here and follow along with the course and maybe take 21 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:20,850 notes along the way. 22 00:01:20,910 --> 00:01:24,990 These cheat sheets we add every month a new cheat sheet. 23 00:01:24,990 --> 00:01:32,360 So you can just keep an eye on this tab and check out different cheat sheets based on your interests. 24 00:01:32,370 --> 00:01:38,310 We also have our blog where we post 2 to 3 blog posts a week. 25 00:01:38,310 --> 00:01:39,630 So quite a lot. 26 00:01:39,630 --> 00:01:46,620 And we have different topics for beginners, for people that are already working in the industry, different 27 00:01:46,620 --> 00:01:47,820 instructor posts. 28 00:01:47,820 --> 00:01:51,750 We also have posts about how to get hired, so on and so forth. 29 00:01:51,900 --> 00:01:55,080 So you can check out our blog and we have different tabs here. 30 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:57,690 Obviously beginner start here, advance your career. 31 00:01:57,690 --> 00:02:01,230 But the most important one is right here. 32 00:02:01,230 --> 00:02:09,539 We have monthly industry newsletters, so every month myself and other Gtlm instructors write a recap 33 00:02:09,539 --> 00:02:11,940 of what happened that month in the industry. 34 00:02:11,940 --> 00:02:17,190 You know how you're always overwhelmed with blog posts, what to read, how to stay up to date with 35 00:02:17,190 --> 00:02:18,000 the industry. 36 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:24,450 Well, we try to make it easy for you so that you don't have to read 100 blog posts, watch 100 YouTube 37 00:02:24,450 --> 00:02:27,380 videos every month just to stay up to date. 38 00:02:27,390 --> 00:02:30,600 Instead, we recap what happened in the industry. 39 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:35,730 So we have a web developer monthly that recaps what happened in the industry that month. 40 00:02:35,730 --> 00:02:37,560 What are the best resources to read? 41 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:43,020 What is the big takeaway all digested into one blog post like this one? 42 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:50,980 But we also have one for Python, one for machine learning and a blockchain developer. 43 00:02:51,220 --> 00:02:56,920 Now we're going to add a few more throughout the year, but these should cover a lot of the interests 44 00:02:56,920 --> 00:02:58,000 that students have. 45 00:02:58,450 --> 00:03:01,710 Now, finally, you can also check out our career paths. 46 00:03:01,720 --> 00:03:07,270 So this if you're looking for a certain career, we'll give you advice on what path to follow, when 47 00:03:07,270 --> 00:03:13,540 to apply for jobs, what sort of skill levels are required for each of these careers. 48 00:03:13,540 --> 00:03:20,290 So again, this website you can use for free doesn't require any sign up and you can find different 49 00:03:20,290 --> 00:03:22,450 sort of information based on your needs. 50 00:03:22,870 --> 00:03:24,430 Now, two last things. 51 00:03:24,430 --> 00:03:28,870 One is that we have a LinkedIn group for all our students, so this is great. 52 00:03:28,870 --> 00:03:34,780 If you have a LinkedIn profile and you want to endorse each other's skills, get advice, career advice 53 00:03:34,780 --> 00:03:35,380 from people. 54 00:03:35,380 --> 00:03:42,640 So there's lots of things happening in our group and people are always sharing job openings, tips and 55 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:45,730 advice on career Day and also endorsing each other's skill. 56 00:03:45,730 --> 00:03:49,130 So if you want to boost your LinkedIn profile, this is a great place to start. 57 00:03:49,150 --> 00:03:55,690 And then finally, we also have a YouTube channel that we recently started, and we're posting about 58 00:03:55,690 --> 00:04:01,810 3 to 4 videos a week, different topics that are free that you can kind of check out. 59 00:04:01,810 --> 00:04:03,940 And as you see, we already have a ton here. 60 00:04:03,940 --> 00:04:06,310 We're going to have a lot more coming up throughout the year. 61 00:04:06,310 --> 00:04:10,990 But you can check out our YouTube Channel zero two Mastery as well. 62 00:04:11,110 --> 00:04:15,910 All of these you get for free as being part of the EDM student. 63 00:04:15,910 --> 00:04:17,329 So enjoy. 64 00:04:17,350 --> 00:04:18,240 Good luck. 65 00:04:18,250 --> 00:04:22,690 Use these resources to your advantage and welcome to.