Things are going great out here at class. At the end of the day, I’m consistently too mentally fried to do more than watch a dumb kung-fu flick and go to bed. The instructor hangs out in the lab until 9 or so in the evening, and some people seem to be working on pet projects … but simply absorbing the course material leaves me in a state where I read my comics and fall asleep.
Immersive training is the way to go. We’re way out in the woods here, with no distractions. We go from 9 in the morning until 6 in the evening, with breaks for lunch and a walk. I grab a quick “sit” out by the pond, or I walk the labyrinth … and then it’s back to it. We’ve made our way through a 450 page technical book, doing 30 chapters worth of exercises. I’m totally confident that I’ve got the grounding to build a small to mid-sized application for OS X … plus a detailed understanding of what’s hard vs. easy for the large stuff.
The attendees are also awesome. I’m accustomed to sneering a little bit at technical training, because of the propensity of people to go “because my boss made me.” There are none of those deadheads here. Instead, there are several guys who have decided to change their lives … and they’re spending thousands of dollars to come out and get the tools to make their dreams of being a software developer come true. It’s actually inspiring.
Next week, back to reality – to the move – to the day to day of stuff. But for now I’m going to sleep in this huge-ass bed and then wake up and learn some more awesome stuff tomorrow.
P.s: technolope: I want to hang with you and see how much visualization we can fit on my laptop in, like, three hours of hacking. You would not *believe* the libraries that Apple just gives away on these things.
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