2013
Started studying a little bit of C# as my first programming language; decided to go to college at YSU in the beginning of 2014.
Started studying a little bit of C# as my first programming language; decided to go to college at YSU in the beginning of 2014.
Started my journey in getting my bachelor's degree in Computer Science. This was the year I started to learn my first formal programming langauge: Python.
I also did go to my first Hackathon, where I first learned Git & Github.
Skills Learned: Python fundamentals with some Git & Github.
This is when I started to use C++ and Netbeans in school.
Skills Learned: C++ and Netbeans IDE.
This was the year where things first accelerated. In the beginning of 2016 I got my first internship doing QA work at Turning Technologies.
At work I was doing QA work with Jira, exploratory testing, writing test cases, etc. and at college (and work) is where I was learning Java.
Skills Learned: Jira, exploratory testing, Java, and QA in general.
At Turning Technologies I went from QA to software developing; learning IntelliJ, Bitbucket, and more Java.
Skills Learned: IntelliJ, Bitbucket, Confluence, some Javascript, and some GRAILS (Groovy on Rails).
Took a ton of upper division CS classes this year. Software Tools & Practicies where I learned more about Git, Github, and some other tools like Doxygen.
Visual OOP is where I learned Visual Studio and VB.NET. Another class I took this year was E-Commerce Programming; where I learned PHP and the final product in that class
was creating a little store - learned PHP and more SQL.
I also had another internship doing QA work, more exploratory testing, but learned more SQL and some C#.
Skills Learned: Git, Github, Doxygen, introducing Regex, PHP, some SQL, VB.NET, Visual Studio, and some C#.
It was Feb. 2019 where I started taking leanring C# seriously. I chose C# because that was the programming language at work, I learned Visual Studio at college last year, and I could use C# with Unity later on.
I also took my capstone class which was a simple login system in VB.NET; it would take a user's info and sign them in.
2019 is where I officially earned my bachelor's degree in Computer Science at YSU.
Skills Learned: C#; really getting into the language.
This is where I got accepted into IBM's pre-apprenticeship certification program for Software Engineering - you can view my badges that I earned from it here: https://www.youracclaim.com/users/george-tabet/badges
Later on I did get a position as a Software Developer & IT Specialist where I learned NACHA, Wordpress, WinSCP, and some other skills.
I got much better at C#; since I started learning it in 2019 I got better at LINQ methods and Regex in general.
New career lead to new skills learned. More C#, VB.NET, T-SQL, Azure DevOps, and also some JSON, XML, and even VB6 of all things.
Besides the usual learning at work, I also got the Donald Knuth award! [More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth_reward_check] And yes I framed the award. >;3
The usual .NET Framework. I also use Microsoft Copilot, and it's okay.
Adding this now (Jan 2025) rather than forgetting later, made a goal last year to study a topic each day (or try to). I did upload a Python/Tkinter project I call Creator Content Tracker as an example.