Everyone these days is talking about big data, data analytics, machine learning, and all other aspects of the realm of Data Science. Over the last year or so, I have taken a bit of time to learn more about writing apps and other general coding skills. My mother is a software engineer for IBM, so I have always been exposed to some general technical skills that I’ve used over the years. I was always relatively strong with using Microsoft Excel to track my statistics as an avid junior golfer, and found the benefit of being able to connect how well or poorly I did with what my statistics were. Those sorts of connections were easy to understand, because I knew that if I improved one of these areas, I would see an improvement in overall performance. However, beyone using excel I never ventured too much further into technical skills. Over the last year or two, I have started experimenting with some code, looking into what the process would be to learn how to build an app, or learn to create a website, but I never really took it too far in terms of interest in the subject, as there were always other, more pressing items to deal with in my life and at work. Over time, as work became less busy or less interesting, I started considering other options, and my mother suggested looking into bootcamps as she had seen many new employees at IBM and other companies getting jobs from a short bootcamp in software development or data science. So I took her advice and started looking into different options to see if it would interest me.