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So to ya'll doing this.  How about we keep each other on pace?  My thought is this.  By the end of this week, lets me done through video six, Branching with the if Decision Statement and the Conditional Operator.

Moving forward, lets all commit to getting through with two more videos...and so on.

In doing this, we can all be done in 9-12 weeks, which I think is a fair amount of time, not unlike a college semester.  If anyone is down for this, then I have some other ideas as well to help build on this even more.

B17 - 

So to ya'll doing this.  How about we keep each other on pace?  My thought is this.  By the end of this week, lets me done through video six, Branching with the if Decision Statement and the Conditional Operator.

Moving forward, lets all commit to getting through with two more videos...and so on.

In doing this, we can all be done in 9-12 weeks, which I think is a fair amount of time, not unlike a college semester.  If anyone is down for this, then I have some other ideas as well to help build on this even more.

I'm good with this.  I finished the first project on #6.  So, by Saturday we are finished with #6 completely and then in the next week you want to be done with 2 more videos?  Or do you want to make it 1/week?

My short-term goal is to be completely fluent in at least 2 programming languages by June of 2013.  I would LIKE to be able to apply for a programming job in 9 months (not sure if that's realistic but I like having something to work towards.)

My long term goal is to be completely finished with my current field and moved into Programming full time in 1 year from now.

5 year goal is to be making 100k/year.

2 per week

So next week we do 7/8

2 per week is good for me.

just signed up for this:  https://www.coursera.org/course/cs101

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just signed up for this:  https://www.coursera.org/course/cs101

Nice!

I've decided to brush up on math that I've long since forgotten on a really great, free Web site called Khan Academy. That place is pure gold.

ttt

I hit 8 and had to stop.  Finals the last week or so and its taking a shit load of time from me in this one class.  Fucking teacher has a two part, eight hour final.  WTF.

Why is it that profs go crazy before holidays, I hate that.  :)

As always guys, email me anytime if you have questions on any of the material or programming work in the videos. I'd love to get through this with you all in the next few months and get started on some fun Web development.

I will have of till the 15th of January so I think I can plow through many more videos in that time.  I will likely have to go back over the last few though just as a refresher.  

This networking shit is killing me.  We are using TestOut, which is total shit and a babysitter system for colleges and allows them to make a quick buck and do nothing.

I think I can have 1-10 done by Sunday.  Finals are now over.  Just need to zip through the first six to refresh and then plow onward.

Hey guys, I wanted to share another training resource with you guys. I know that this time of year and in this economy, money is really tight, but I honestly think this is very affordable and absolutely worth the money. In fact, I've put my money where my mouth is on this one and bought my own subscription. A couple of other developers that I work with on contract at a software company right now have also signed up.

http://pluralsight.com/training/Courses

Here you can learn EVERYTHING you need to know to be a professional developer. And I mean EVERYTHING. You can get the videos only for $29 per month. And worse case, I think you can get a free trial for 30 days.

A bit of history here: back in 2001 Microsoft released its .NET platform. I was mainly a VB, Visual C++, Visual InterDev, SQL Server developer. The new platform was fun to play around with at first, but I realized pretty quickly that in order to keep my contract rate high I would need to become an expert fast. I took $5,000 of my own money and attended a course called Guerilla .NET at a company called DevelopMentor (they are still around). Back then DevelopMentor was ran but a guy named Don Box. If you google Don Box, he's the guy who used to write COM articles (and books) for MSDN magazine. A few other guys did too. I went there and took the Guerilla .NET course and it was 12 hours per day for a week straight with a PC in front of you and lots of labs to go with the slides. All done out of the hotel I was staying in, so it was like a nerd vaction. It was incredible!

So fast forward about 6 years, Don Box was out at DevelopMentor and Aaron Skonnard (another MSDN contributor for XML/SOAP/WSE) started a company called PluralSight with security guru Keith Brown and ASP.NET guru Fritz Onion. They had another intensive Distrubuted Architecture 5 day course in Redmond, WA. So I ponied up my own cash again and took a week off of work and flew out there. Again, those guys are incredible.

Man I tell ya.  That video #6 really is a beast.  I get the if, else if, and else statements but after that he loses me.

Ive watched it three times now too, lol.

Back to 8/9 for now.  I should get to 10 as well.

How are you doing Tom?

Also, Sean, how helpful would you say that C# book is?  Does it fill in some gaps pretty well?

theseanster - 

Hey guys, I wanted to share another training resource with you guys. I know that this time of year and in this economy, money is really tight, but I honestly think this is very affordable and absolutely worth the money. In fact, I've put my money where my mouth is on this one and bought my own subscription. A couple of other developers that I work with on contract at a software company right now have also signed up.

http://pluralsight.com/training/Courses

Here you can learn EVERYTHING you need to know to be a professional developer. And I mean EVERYTHING. You can get the videos only for $29 per month. And worse case, I think you can get a free trial for 30 days.

A bit of history here: back in 2001 Microsoft released its .NET platform. I was mainly a VB, Visual C++, Visual InterDev, SQL Server developer. The new platform was fun to play around with at first, but I realized pretty quickly that in order to keep my contract rate high I would need to become an expert fast. I took $5,000 of my own money and attended a course called Guerilla .NET at a company called DevelopMentor (they are still around). Back then DevelopMentor was ran but a guy named Don Box. If you google Don Box, he's the guy who used to write COM articles (and books) for MSDN magazine. A few other guys did too. I went there and took the Guerilla .NET course and it was 12 hours per day for a week straight with a PC in front of you and lots of labs to go with the slides. All done out of the hotel I was staying in, so it was like a nerd vaction. It was incredible!

So fast forward about 6 years, Don Box was out at DevelopMentor and Aaron Skonnard (another MSDN contributor for XML/SOAP/WSE) started a company called PluralSight with security guru Keith Brown and ASP.NET guru Fritz Onion. They had another intensive Distrubuted Architecture 5 day course in Redmond, WA. So I ponied up my own cash again and took a week off of work and flew out there. Again, those guys are incredible.

Very cool.  You get 10 days/200 minutes free it says.  I will check it out.  I have found that once Tabor gets going he tends to blow past some aspects of the code block and I am left kind of scratching my head.

Thats why I just asked about the book.  But, Im hesitant to buy it as its got to be a pretty good book for me to actually pick it up.  So many IT books are sleeping pills.

aaaaand a x3 VTFU for Seanster

Im looking at that site now.  Lots of topics covered.  Im not sure I can afford that.  I wonder if I could write it off as a student expense and use my student loan funds?

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Man I tell ya.  That video #6 really is a beast.  I get the if, else if, and else statements but after that he loses me.

Ive watched it three times now too, lol.

Back to 8/9 for now.  I should get to 10 as well.

How are you doing Tom?

 

Also, Sean, how helpful would you say that C# book is?  Does it fill in some gaps pretty well?

I wouldn't mess with the books if the videos are giving you problems.

What's giving you heartache in video 6?