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Class has been going great. I must admit I was really burnt out by late last Thursday. The weather has been slowly getting warmer and nice. Thursday, Friday and Saturday's conditions were perfect.   Last Friday I was jumping out of my skin (spring fever).

 I'm feeling pretty confident about C#.  It definitely took me a little time to get my brain around it.  I see now that I was looking for a deeper understanding of the syntax. I needed to understand the "why". (Maybe that's just how my mind works.....I ask "Why" alot.)  

Friday's class was all about the object oriented programing, inheritance and polymorphism.Chris Byram (our instructor) does a great job of teaching the subject matter.  I've come to truly enjoy him as an instructor and a person. I didn't get as much out of the class as I wanted.  I needed to stare at some trees....... When I left Friday I shut the computer off and stepped out of code. My brain officially was turning into spaghetti. 

Besides.......I've been missing out on spending time with my babies. The twins and I had a camp fire, smores.  Movie night.  Catherine and I saw each other but she's a teenager.....too busy to have smores. I actually got out on the golf course hit the golf ball on Saturday as well.  WOW!!!

TNT--(Tim and Tatem)

Catherine Petet

Tatem Petet

Jude Petet

Man I needed it.  The kids have been patient....but they really aren't  fans of my new schedule.  I keep telling them its four months.  In the bigger scheme of things that's nothing.  Oh then there's my little man.........mini-me.  He and I had so much fun at the campfire.  That boy does make me laugh. (it's a good thing cause I'd have killed by now if he weren't)

Came to school this Monday morning energized and fresh.  Like the Sun is to Superman....they are the source of my power.   This weekend  was a great reminder of  "WHY"  I'm doing this.  

Hello World......

I'm pleased with my decision to re-take C#.  I've stayed dedicated to studying and working through all the material.  I'm much more secure in the code this time around.  Visual Studios doesn't overwhelm me as much either.  Like any tool, you must get familiar with it.  Over the last 6 weeks I've crashed, broken, lost and been through Visual Studios and back again.

Dealing with Branching,(switches and if trees) and Loops.  I'm really working as hard as I can on these concepts.  I understand why they work. That doesn't mean I can get them to work for me yet.


Although the code becomes clearer as I continue to re-do the homework and actually use it.  I need my hands in it to learn it. My new classmates are good.  There is definitely some personality in this group.  We're just now starting to get know one another.

Chris Byram is my instructor for this track and he's really energetic and passionate.  I enjoy his personality and tempo in the class room.  I do find one thing interesting.  We are covering the same material yet it's from a slightly different perspective.

All my instructors have been great. Yet I'm noticing how they all look at the same problems and have a different perspective.This is the silver lining in being a computer programmer. There isn't one right answer.  There could be multiple ways to come to the same solution.

Love that.

As of this post it'll be 101 days till the end of classes.  Then I'll take the Microsoft Certification test.  With a little luck and some hard work I'll get through it.  I think Old Thomas Jefferson has the right idea.

The Re-boot

Hello world.......

I haven't blogged in a week or so. Nicole Trendel (Office Manager) Came to me on Monday and said that there was a spot open in the new .Net Developers Track.  It would set me back 6 weeks.   It would allow me to go through C# a second time.

The truth is that I don't want to just get through this program........I want to get it and be good at this.  After all, this is a professional re-boot.  Although I was feeling confident with HTML and CSS, When we started going in to the ASP we went back to C# and I was not comprehending.

I jumped on it.   My new graduation date is July 20th.  That's alright.  I just don't want to be that character in the "kid snippet" video.  There's nothing wrong with that.......I just want more.