Hey ProgrammingEra,
I somehow managed to get a job as SysAdmin/Dev for an application that uses a proprietary language. Now I'm not a dev myself, but I'm lucky enough to have a boss that let's me take time to learn while the senior consultants to most of the work atm.
Now while I've already learned a lot, I still see a huge gap between the consultants and myself. They are able to open up any script in this language and directly understand and fix it, while I first need to read it through 20 times before even understanding what it's even supposed to do.
Now since this language is proprietary and embedded so deeply in this application, I can't quite learn by doing, so I was thinking about learning java on the side while on the job, just to deepen my know how and get a better grasp of programming, OOP, logic, etc...
My boss isn't against this idea per se, but he was wondering if there was any kind of online course I could do like 4-5 hours a week where we could actually somehow track my progress. I don't mind having to pay for it myself as well, and we don't care about any certification. It would just be good to be able to see how much progress I'm doing.
Do you folks happen to know about such an online course?
Thank you very very much for any help on this!