It’s time to celebrate!

It’s been +- 2.5 years since I left the formal job sector and set off on my new journey as an online instructor and content creator in the Software Development field.

It has been quite a journey – moving from the city to a quiet coastal village, working from home instead of in a busy workplace, adapting and adjusting, researching, creating content, building platforms to share content on, publishing and sharing content.

What have I been doing and creating?

Among many other things,

Online courses
Websites (my own and one or 2 others)
An online store for Digital products – Dida-Do Treasure chest for Software Development students.
A Blog site (A more recent project, still getting it off the ground).
Regular posts.
Study guides with 100s of explanations, examples, exercises, summaries, review questions and answers, etc on the Dida-Do Treasure chest.
Videos – new ones soon to be released on YouTube
Regular Announcements (like this one) on Udemy
Literally thousands of Personal Messages to students, with more information and answering questions.
1000s of E-mails!!
Building a client base
Lots of design work!
Getting used to an alternative way of living and working on just being balanced and healthy!

Milestones reached

The Dida-Do Treasure chest for Software Development students

$2000+ sales and 4000+ views on the Dida-Do Treasure chest for Software development students.
Although the ratings have been slow to come in on Products, all but one has been 5stars!

PS – Please take time to rate the products – I will really appreciate it!

On Udemy

• A rating of 4.7 from 505 reviews for the MTA 98-361 Software Development Fundamentals C# Exam Prep course on Udemy

• A total of 2416 students for the course. I haven't had any reports of students failing the exam - but many of students passing!

• A bestseller badge.

To celebrate

I have placed a site-wide discount of 80% on all products on the Dida-Do Treasure chest for Software Development students!

Just head on over to the Dida-Do Treasure chest, select your product(s) and enter CelebrateJune80 as discount code when you check out.

This will mean you can get the following:

• MTA 98-361 C# Software Development Fundamentals made easy - Complete study guide set for only $5.00 instead of $25.00 This is the best price ever!

• If you wish to buy any of the objective study guides separately (Objective 2-6), you will pay only $1.00 per study guide! (Normal price $5.00)!

• MTA 98-361 Review questions, answers and explanations per objective for only $3.00 instead of $15.00!

What am I working on?

Based on questions from students, I am currently working on a few videos for SQL on Azure.

These videos are based on the MTA 98-361 Objective 6 study guide’s exercises.

It will teach you how to create a SQL database on Azure, create the tables for the database and Insert data into the tables – all on the Azure platform.

Instead of installing SQL server and SQL server Management studio on your local PC, these videos will show you how to use Azure for these tasks.

From there you will learn how to create (and execute) Update, Delete and Select queries, stored procedures and transactions for your SQL database on Azure.

I will keep you updated on the progress and share the videos with you when they are done.

After this project, I will be working on a full video course on Udemy.

What am I studying?

I passed my first Azure development exam in 2013 – The 70-487 exam, developing Microsoft Azure and web services, but things have changed a lot since then, so I decided it is time for a full upgrade and re-certification on the Azure platform.

I have also not been pursuing certifications for the past 2 years. The last exam I passed was the 70-761 exam, still the Beta version then – Querying data with Transact-SQL, so I suppose I have to do a lot of learning!

I decided to start at the bottom again, with the fundamental exam and move my way through to the more advanced exams, so I am starting with the AZ-900 (Azure Fundamentals) exam.

I am already busy studying and making easy-to-study-from summaries as I go along. I will probably compile these into a study guide to make other students’ studies a bit easier in future, once I have passed the exam (by Gods grace..).

You can view more achievements on my certification journey on LinkedIn.

In conclusion

Thanks for your support – I really appreciate it and all the best with your own learning journey – your personal Road trip!

Sonia

PS - Share your learning journey with me - I will be more than happy to hear from you!

soniaxcross@gmail.com

Welcome 2023 -Let's learn!

Work from wherever you are and happy December!

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