A weekend and a couple days back at work and all the sudden I was back in class. I spent the weekend trying to find information on object-oriented programming and VB.NET, but wasn’t happy with the results.
It only took about two hours at work for me to wish I was back in school. There are several “me-only” projects at work (applications that I am sole-support for) and they all went freaky-go-nuts last week while I was in school. So my two days back at work were filled up with chasing and squashing database bugs and generating custom reports. Since people knew I was only going to be at work two days this week, any free moment was quickly filled with ad-hoc requests and just-in-case applications. Whew. I’m glad to be at school.
Today went better than the end of last week. Even though I wasn’t satisfied with what I found on the internet this weekend, I guess the sheer repetition helped me grab onto a few facts and familiarized me with more syntax. I cruised through the labs and even chatted amicably with the teacher during lunch break. Not bad at all.
Tomorrow’s my last day and we’re supposed to get our certificates. We’re also supposed to finish the workbook and we’re not even close to the last chapter.
Once again I had homework and once again I didn’t really do it. We’re getting into web services and other internet programming and the concepts are a bit more familiar, so maybe it won’t be too bad.
I still have every intention of going through the workbook again at my own pace and really try to learn this stuff, but after dealing with what I dealt with at work on Monday and Tuesday, I’m just hoping I have enough time to read anything at all.
More tomorrow…