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End of First Semester

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I have officially finished my first semester of school.

Class ended for me today when I turned in the last of my assignments for Project Management. I also submitted two assignments for Website Design that I somehow overlooked months ago.

Finals? Yeah, I had one… It was a mock interview with the Director of Education and a review of my resume with the lady over Career Services. Pretty easy stuff so far.

The next semester will consist of XML Web Services, ASP.Net, and SQL Server. There is a math class in there as well, but I already have credit for it. I find it odd that they are moving us into ASP.Net next considering we haven’t had C# or VB.Net yet. Oh well…

At least I get about a week off of school before the next semester begins.

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Just a couple more weeks to go

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Today should mark the end of our “SQL Database” class at school. Well technically this class should have been over with a week or so ago, but that’s alright.

Apparently the “SQL Database” class was originally a straight up MySQL class with a focus on doing all things related from the command line. A few semesters ago, this all changed and it became a PHP/MySQL class set on top of XAPM. I really don’t mind the PHP bit, considering that’s what I do for a living, but I would have liked more time with MySQL. I’ve gotten a bit rusty in it over the years as my database focus has been Oracle.

Wait, did I say I would have liked to spend more time with MySQL? Remember that part where I said we were running a few weeks behind schedule? Yeah, so my class never made it past the basic PHP sections and into the MySQL stuff. Oh well.

Next we start on Project Management with Microsoft Project 2007. It may actually lead to me getting my CompTIA Project+ certification, for whatever that is worth.

Classes for the semester end on August 17th with finals the 18th and 19th. Then it’s on to my second semester.

9 Weeks Down, The End Of My 3rd Class

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It’s the weekend which is the end of another week of school, and with it should be the end of my 3rd class. We’ll see if it actually ends or if the instructor has anything special planned for us over the holiday weekend.

The Visual Studio 2008 class started 3 weeks ago, however we didn’t actually get our book until a week and a half into class. We’ve only covered three of the chapters, those he did has some “discussion questions” related to later chapters. Maybe we will get away with just reading the text and answering the questions rather than having to do any homework. Next up should be SQL, I believe.

Week 7 Down

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Thursday was technicaly the end of the week as far as school is concerned. However, I have yet to receive my text book or any homework. With 5 classes this semester, each class is only 3 weeks long. Now that I have only two weeks left, that will either leave quite a bit out, or make the next two weeks Hell. Uggg.

I was actually looking forward to learning a bit about Visual Basic.

Week 6 Completed, End Of 2nd Class

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Week six of school is now behind me, and with it should be the “Website Design” class, or like I’ve called it before, the very basic introduction to HTML. As I mentioned last week, I wasn’t exactly sure what was going on since we really weren’t getting any assignments. On Wednesday, which was technically the next to last day of the class, I emailed my instructor to see what was up. For better or for worse, that evening he gave my class two chapters worth of work. I guess that makes up for over a week of nothing.

While I highly doubt my classmates actually got the work done, I was easily able to finish it in about 9 hours spread over the weekend. It’s not like it was anything difficult, all it covered were links and tables. Yeah, real tough stuff. I’m disappointed that the class didn’t cover forms, CSS, JavaScript, or even mention HTML5. Granted, there isn’t a whole lot you can teach in three weeks (12 days), so maybe we will get into those areas further down the road. If not, this class was a total waste and pretty much useless if any of my classmates were looking into becoming a real web developer after graduation. Ahh well, at least it was an easy “A”. Now I just have to try and forget all the deprecated things that I learned in this class.

Next up “Introduction to Programming” otherwise known as Visual Basic. This should be real interesting for me, since I’ve never done anything in VB. Though I’m not expecting much of a challenge over the next three weeks.