So… The last four days I have been in java training, learning the intricacies (well, generalities) of object oriented programming.
Monday and tuesday, I spent the requisite 8 hours there, and then another 2 or 3 hours (3 monday, 2 tuesday) at work, finishing up projects that took longer than expected. Believe me, this sucked ass.
But more than feeling really busy, another thing kept me from blogging these past few days–lack of internet access. The training lab didn’t have networking. In fact, in this entire high-tech training facility, the only machine we had access to that was hooked up to the internet was the front desk machine. So if you wanted to check your email or something on lunch break, you had to a) wait till nobody else was already doing so, and b) sit behind this little counter as if you were answering phones or something.
Point is, I felt incredibly cut off from the internet. Today I was jonsing. Our instructor was this really interesting guy, and constantly bringing up topics that I would have loved to do some “further reading” on while I was sitting in lecture. It didn’t help any that I felt fairly advanced in the course, and would have liked the pace of the class to be about twice or three times what it was. It was hard to keep my eyes open at times. We spent almost the entire day with the digital projector, and thus in dim lighting–the instructor’s voice was also quite droning.
I’ve had about fifty ideas for blog entries in the last few days. For now, at least, this will have to do.
awww… it was free. What do you expect?
I should perhaps qualify my post by saying that I did learn a lot… it’d have been crazy if I hadn’t in 4 days! I’ve only programmed a bit in java before, and this definitely filled in some gaps and crevaces in my knowledge map.
In fact (to belabor my metaphor), I feel in some sense that I now have a hold on the general topography of java, whereas before, I was merely hiking blindly through the woods.