Change in plans. This came to me this afternoon. I don't know why I didn't think of this a couple of years ago when I first started down this road. I'm tackling the programming books, and the goLearn courses before that, all wrong. Instead of just diving into the books without a game plan, I should have decided beforehand how much I expected to get finished within a certain amount of time. So, that said, here is the new game plan:
* I will spend a week on each chapter
* I'll divide the total pages in each chapter by 4 - for Monday through Thursday.
* I should read through that many pages during lunch.
* Any pages not completed by Thursday afternoon have to be finished over the weekend, if I want to keep up with my original totals.
Head First C# book
There are 15 chapters and 3 labs. That equates to 18 weeks, which I should be able accomplish in about 4 months. I would spend almost as long taking this course at a Dallas County Community College District college. This is 3 times as long as the ed2go.com online course I've been considering. That one is for 6 weeks and would cost $99.00. My going this route will take me 18 weeks however the (very visual) Head First C# book only cost me $8.39. I can live with that trade-off, lol.
The C# book averages 25-30 pages per chapter. Dividing that by 4, I should go through 6-8 pages a day. That should be possible. It also gives me something to shoot for each day, as in 'just 3 more pages, I just have to get to page 150, then I can stop.'
That's another problem about doing this without a gameplan: I'm setting a big goal of getting through the entire book, but I did not break it into smaller chunks. The 'smaller chunks' method is what would be happening in a class setting. I should have thought of this ages ago.
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