Magician, Wizard... or Programmer
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When you learn to program, you become magician-like and make things happen. When you mix programming with other skills, you help IT organizations automate their infrastructure to pave the way for new innovations.
Right here, you can explore All Sides of Programming and find out if you’re a magician at heart. Cisco Networking Academy has all the resources to get you started—and get you excited about a new career!
Choose a Side to Explore
As the cloud gives organizations a new way of operating IT, programmers give organizations the means to embrace what’s possible.
Use this fun tool to see how the world is opening up to those who can string a line of code together—and make apps do what they want them to do.
8 Reasons to Love Python
Ask anyone, and they’ll tell you there’s a lot to love about Python. Its readability. Its object-orientation. But do you know what’s really cool about Python?
Check out our top 8 picks and become a believer yourself.
Opportunities in DevOps
Created in the spirit of collaboration between developers and operations teams, DevOps is an exciting new world for modern-day programmers.
Networking Academy offers a course, and Cisco offers a certification that will give you the skills and confidence you need.
Oh, and we almost forgot. There’s an official DevNet Associate Cert Guide that can really help!
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Time to get started
Good jobs—with good salaries are available to programmers.
Job Outlook
Python developers are now among the highest-paid programmers in the tech industry.
At any one time, there are upwards of 100,000 unfulfilled Python developer jobs around the world.
Source: SalaryExpert.com
Start Practicing
- PCAP: Programming Essentials in Python course (where you can learn the basics)
- NDG Linux Essentials course
(where you can quickly gain experience using commands) - CPA: Programming Essentials in C++
(where you can implement and write code) - Cisco DevNet learning labs
(where you can perform coding tasks with Python scripts) - GitHub (where you can access millions of sample Python scripts provided FREE from users and engineers at Cisco)
Get Cisco Certified
With DevOps being such an important role in the new, more agile IT department, those with a certification almost have a “golden ticket” to greater success.
- DevNet Associate course
(aligns with certification) - DevNet Associate Cert
(the path to a career) - DevNet Professional Cert
(the ability to select a core technology track)
Learn from Others
“If you want to learn to code, it’s about doing it repetitively every day. But you don’t have to spend 3 or 4 hours of study every day. Thirty minutes or an hour is plenty,” says Stuart Clark, Technical Leader/Developer Advocate at Cisco.
Check out more advice from Stuart and other Real-life Programmers:
-Stuart Clark, Technical Leader/Developer Advocate, Cisco
-Du’An Lightfoot, Developer Advocate, Cisco
-Denise Kwan, Software Engineer, Cisco
-Adrian Iliesiu, Technical Leader, Cisco
The Dawn of a New Day
The modern network is breaking records that could not have been imagined years ago.