How to Teach Yourself I.T. - Self Taught Information Technology

how can you teach yourself it all on your own stay tuned hey everybody this is Zach with it career questions and in my previous video I told you guys how I was self-taught and got into it at an early age and basically been in it for a very long time and you guys asked how can I teach myself how did I teach myself so this video I'll tell you kind of how I taught myself and I'll give you guys the tips and tricks that you guys can use to teach yourself so back in the early days of it I had extra computers laying around and I took those computers and I acquired some of the older operating systems which at that time you know was Windows XP and Windows uh 2000 and server 2002 when that finally came out and I learned those operating systems and I played around with them and broke things and installed things that I shouldn't have and really screw things up really bad but that's how I taught myself and I learned lessons from those things and you know aside from that I kind of went out there and put myself myself out there and you know try to fix people's computers and try to put myself in some different business environments but you know luckily I got involved in some business environments very early in my it um career and that really taught me a lot it's not going to happen for everybody can happen for you that's why I always tell you guys to intern intern volunteer volunteer those are the biggest things that you guys can do to really get yourselves in the door and learn a lot about it and environments and things like that so what I can tell you guys is stuff that I've taught you before if you want to teach yourself it the best thing that you can do download Virtual box you can download Virtual box and you can create virtual environments for pretty much any operating system that's out there you can go to the Microsoft website their techet techet website and download pretty much every operating system that they have that's current so you know you can download um Windows 810 Server 2008 12 and now 16 and you guys can install evaluation copies of those um operating systems on Virtual box and play around with those and learn how those operating systems work and what's great about that is you guys can then go on YouTube just like you are right now and really dive deep into how to function these operating systems and how to really work these and install active directory and install exchange and um really get into like you know different Group Policy things and really dive into it you know that's that's really teaching yourself you know that's really getting hardcore mode into uh teaching yourself some of the more advanced things of it and you know there's obviously Basics I've done it Basics videos you can find those I'll put some of those in the description I'll throw them over here somewhere or whatever um but I've done it Basics videos where I talk about you know learning the command prompt and learning Act directory just like I mentioned and um learning Powershell and you know there's you know learning um computer management there's literally so many things that you can go out there on the internet and learn on your own in your free time and it's valuable it's all valuable information and it doesn't take a lot to do it really doesn't and you know the great thing about virtual box if you break it you can start over and you don't have to worry about screwing up a computer because it's all virtualized it's all all basically just a virtual machine created on your own computer that won't mess up your computer so there's pretty much that aspect of it and again go out and volunteer and Inter turn and get that experience because that's going to be important when you're really looking to get out there into the actual it field so the other things about you know self- teing yourself it you know you guys can go out there and get the books and things like that I've talked about getting the A+ and the network plus and uh different certifications you guys can go out and get books or even go on YouTube and learn all of the things there the A+ certification really will teach you so much about just all the general fundamentals of it and just picking up a book about it really will get you self-taught in no time and just pick up any spare computer that you have laying around um go on Craigslist buy a computer for 50 bucks or 20 bucks or whatever it is even if it's old and ancient and even if it doesn't work and figure out why it doesn't work and start making it work start breaking it even if it does work and start learning all of the different components and and why things break and and all that stuff and that's just a good General thing to do that can really help you in in self- teing if you guys aren't really looking to get into the whole it um you know analyst help desk uh technician aspect of it you know the the virtual box and server stuff that's that that'll help you with you know going into server Administration there's tons of material out there on the internet that will um virtualize um Network Administration so if you guys are really want to self te uh some type of networking there are tons of material out there that can really help you in learning Cisco and HP switches and things like that and uh virtual Labs out there that that you can learn all that stuff so there is tons of material out there that I didn't have back in the day so really for you guys now in 2016 what you guys have at your fingertips to learn anything related to it is literally like quadruple what I had back in like the early 2000s because I had none of it you know we had like book books and stuff and we didn't have the power of like the search engines in YouTube like we do now so you guys literally have everything at your fingertips to learn whatever you want and it's easy to access so all it takes is you guys putting in a search and you can learn whatever you want so if you guys want to learn it if you want to self te yourself or you want to be self-taught in it these are all pretty much the tips and tricks that I can give you guys to really go out there and self te yourselves because you guys ask so many different questions on like what college courses you guys should take or you know what jobs you guys should take and it's all such a wide variety I don't know everything but I can tell you that everything is at your fingertips so I can help you guys the best that I possibly can and I will continue to do so and I will encourage you guys to do whatever makes you happy because I want you guys to succeed and I want you guys to be at the tops of your careers and even at the tops of your classes in college so I will always continue to try to answer your questions the best that I possibly can but as far as self- teing goes this is literally the best the best of the best that I can give you um everything's at your fingertips it all it really takes is you putting in exactly what you want to learn in the YouTube or Google and I guarantee you you guys will find whatever it is that you want to learn so I hope this kind of helped because like I said I didn't have all this at my fingertips when I first got into it so um I'll throw all the links in and stuff in the description below of anything that I find relevant that you guys can use like virtual box and all the techet um evaluation copies of servers and windows isos and things like that and I'll throw in all the other it basic videos and stuff that I've done so I hope this kind of answers that question for you guys if you guys have any more questions related to this I'd be more than happy to try to answer that the best that I possibly can as always I greatly appreciate you guys watching and asking me questions because that's what this channel is all about I hope I've been a great help to you guys and helped encourage you guys and help you keep motivated and learning and moving forward in it because that's what I'm here to do so as always take it 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Length: 8min 49sec (529 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 29 2016