After CompSci

Over the past two days I got my first two sales which is really exciting! I had been working on the course for over a year off and on before publishing it so it's been great to see that a couple of people wanted it. The first sale went out to a buddy who I heard was transferring from one career path to becoming a software engineer. The second sale came on the next day and from an email that I did not know. I was unable to track exactly where the sale lead came from but I was stoked to see that someone not directly in my circle bought the course. I hope that it is from some of the marketing efforts that I have been working on over the past couple weeks.

Over the next week I'll be working on the site for aftercompsci.com so that it doesn't just forward to the gumroad sales page and start posting up some helpful articles as well.

I have been looking for more ways to get the course in front of prospective buyers but I was having trouble finding a way to reach the target audience directly. The target audience is individuals who are either in college courses right now studying computer science or who are coming out of a boot camp. I didn't have time during the day to go to a college campus so I decided to flyer around the campus a bit. I went to a local college and posted flyers around specific lecture halls that the Comp Sci department teaches during the evening. I also posted some in the computer labs as well. I made sure to add a specific discount code so that any purchases that came from these flyers were trackable.

One things that I think I could have done better is posting the flyers earlier during the week since large lectures are usually held MWF or MW. This means that the flyers would only be seen by people going to lectures on Fridays and let's be real a lot of folks don't go to Friday lectures unless they have to.

The latest project on Learning Docker has been published earlier this morning. After working the past few months on the weekends and evenings I have been able to finish out the last few projects for After CompSci!

The next steps are to add a Tech Term Glossary and some recommendations for finding first jobs and internships while pursuing a degree or after. Being able to communicate in a common language with people in an industry is important so hopefully the Glossary can help remove a bit of that friction. The guide for finding internships and jobs is useful as a little guidance there is always welcome, especially when starting.

Happy Building!

Earlier today I released the Static Site Generation and Hosting Project(Project 006). This is the first project in the course where learners will have a project that is seeable by the outside world. It's a simple personal site project that gets hosted via GitHub Pages. If you are interested in taking a look at the course you can get the whole course including updates for 60% off using the code EARLYBIRD at checkout.

This is the second to last project for this course and I'm working to get the next project done by the end of next weekend. The subject matter will be on Docker and Containers since that is a common deployment medium in a lot of industry that you don't normally see while in school.

The Port Scanner project and associated code has been uploaded to Gumroad. This course gives an over view of socket, ports and common protocols that an engineer should be aware of. In addition to creating your own port scanner common tools for troubleshooting network issues like lsof and netstats are shown as well. Happy Learning!

Today I added project 004 to the After CompSci course. Get insight out of your datasets easily with Python. Checkout the latest After CompSci project to learn basic exploratory data analysis with Python! And get the early bird discount before the full course is launched.