More! Harder!
Java, Take Two.
Encouraged by the grade I got last semester, when I registered for undergrad credit (but did the grad-level work as extra credit) I've formally taken the plunge: Enrolled for grad credit in a class that counts towards the admission requirement for the program I'm theoretically pursuing. Assuming I stick with one class a semester, this will put me on a path that ends with a MS right around my 40th birthday.
Yesterday I finished solving the last problem in the first homework set, which meant returning to all the questions I had last semester about what kind of learner I am, whether I'm any good at this programming stuff, or just good at being in school, and, thanks to a brief conversation with a friend's colleague about this whole endeavor, what exactly I'm hoping to get out of this process besides being able to get a degree at something like of 4% of its sticker price while it is extremely convenient for me to do so. The conversation was initiated by a desire to find people in the process of 're-careering' which I had no real intention of doing, but maybe I actually want to? But in all likelihood I don't?
Anyway, I find recursion to be both understandable and magical. The last program I wrote will tell you whether a string is a palindrome, ignoring whitespace, punctuation, and uppercase/lowercase disagreements, and the guy who works at the Bon Me food truck on the Science Center plaza is starting to recognize me as a Monday night regular.
Encouraged by the grade I got last semester, when I registered for undergrad credit (but did the grad-level work as extra credit) I've formally taken the plunge: Enrolled for grad credit in a class that counts towards the admission requirement for the program I'm theoretically pursuing. Assuming I stick with one class a semester, this will put me on a path that ends with a MS right around my 40th birthday.
Yesterday I finished solving the last problem in the first homework set, which meant returning to all the questions I had last semester about what kind of learner I am, whether I'm any good at this programming stuff, or just good at being in school, and, thanks to a brief conversation with a friend's colleague about this whole endeavor, what exactly I'm hoping to get out of this process besides being able to get a degree at something like of 4% of its sticker price while it is extremely convenient for me to do so. The conversation was initiated by a desire to find people in the process of 're-careering' which I had no real intention of doing, but maybe I actually want to? But in all likelihood I don't?
Anyway, I find recursion to be both understandable and magical. The last program I wrote will tell you whether a string is a palindrome, ignoring whitespace, punctuation, and uppercase/lowercase disagreements, and the guy who works at the Bon Me food truck on the Science Center plaza is starting to recognize me as a Monday night regular.