Graduation day!!
Today dragged by slowly. Mostly, I’m sure, because we all knew it was the last day. Our teacher was determined to get us through the end of the textbook so ahead we went.
We finished up “web services” and moved on to “threading and asynchronous programming”. Don’t feel bad – I sat through the lecture and labs and I’m still not sure what it means. Something about Windows’ ability to perform two or more tasks at once and how to control everything while it’s happening. It was complex and not helped by the fact that we all agreed that it’s a concept we probably won’t use when developing applications at work.
Lastly, we got into ADO.NET. Cool. Database connectivity and programming. This is what I do everyday at work (well, not exactly in this manner – ADO.NET is much nicer and more advanced). Unfortunately, it was a small chapter and only intended as an introduction to ADO.NET I will actually be attending another class in June that is five days of only ADO.NET.
At least the class ended on a good note. There were no sad goodbyes or pictures and no graduation march. (We didn’t even get our certificates – the teacher couldn’t find them) Our certificates will be mailed to us. Just before the end of the class we were given a business card with instructions on how to login and fill out a survey about how much we liked the class and what we thought we got out of it. I was fair, finding a balance between the fact that the teacher taught at high-speed and the fact that we all didn’t necessarily have all the prerequisites to be there in the first place.
All in all, my first experience with Corporate College was pretty cool. I enjoyed it more than a typical day at work, so that’s saying something. I’m looking forward to going back in June and hopefully will be more prepared. Until then I have to spend some time working what I learned into my everyday jobs or it will all have been for nothing.