Well... where am I now? I started the Bookkeeper/Administration job on Jan 16. Started my new (one-day-a-week) hobby-job as a C++ Tutor (instead of a CyberSecurity Student) on Mar 2.

Have not made a lot of progress in my learning-C++ this semester. Have been completely absorbed in my new bookkeeper/admin job. It turns out that accounting is an interesting thing to study!

And yet: I am still here, even if still only one inch at a time. Last week I finally got a compiler/IDE to run a Hello World on my laptop, so I am freed from the limits of the online compiler I was using. (Only one file, no saving, etc.) This week I am attempting to learn the Microsoft Visual Studio Code development environment. It's, um, a lot more complicated than just using a text editor.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/getting-started-with-cpp-in-visual-studio

https://isocpp.org/get-started

Background reading

In between books on nonprofit accounting and parenting teen girls, some background intro to computer science books are giving me some of the sense of orientation I crave:

Computing for Ordinary Mortals, by Robert St. Amant

Digitized : The Science of Computers and How It Shapes Our World, by Peter J. Bentley

Algorithms to Live By : The Computer Science of Human Decisions, by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

Aaaaand another zig on my zigzag

Just withdrew from this semester's Cyber Security college courses. Felt like too much, combined with learning the new bookkeeping job.

Also, just got hired as a college tutor for the C++ Intro to Programming course I took last semester. Yay!!

Another detour

So, I got a wonderful job offer, starting Jan 16. But it's not coding. It's nonprofit administration. I'm very happy about it, but also completely distracted from my learn-to-code hobby while I do a crash course in bookkeeping and basic accounting:

• QuickBooks 2015 for dummies
• Nonprofit Bookkeeping and Accounting for dummies