Exciting news!

Derek,

On behalf of Dennis Wickline, Director, UPMC Enterprise Analytics Congratulations!

You have been admitted to Cohort 2 of UPMC-CMU Business Analyst Education Program for 2013!

This email will help you to prepare for classes to begin Monday, June 3, 2013.

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So what I thought would take me two hours took me all night!

The problem was that creating JAR files using Java classes that call packages has to be done in a specific way. Sun doesn't have clear documentation on how this works, though, which I think is terrible.

The most frustrating part of it all was that I knew that it should compile, because ( Read more... )

I am now set to go for my first two classes.  I can get onto their system starting next week, and my classes start May 29th.